News Desk Friday, October 5, 2007

Okonjo-Iweala Named World Bank MD

By this appointment, Okonjo-Iweala will join two other Mds — Juan Jose Daboub and Graeme Wheeler, as well as, Executive Vice-Presidents Lars Thunell (IFC) and Yukiko Omura (MIGA), and Chief Financial Officer Vincenzo La Via at the top level of World Bank Group (WBG) management. MORE>>

S-East Senators Storm Court, Demand Uwazuruike's Release

ABUJA — SEVEN South-East senators led by Comrade Uche Chukwumerije, yesterday, stormed the Federal High Court, Abuja to solidarise with the incarcerated leader of the outlawed Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Ralph Uwazuruike, and nine others to demand their release. MORE>>

Dokubo, Balarabe, Gani Call For Revolution

Leader of Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Asari Dokubo, former governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa and the Coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Mr. Gani Adams, on Thursday called for revolution in the country. MORE>>

NLNG: Why I'm Opposed to IBB, by Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has restated his objection to the choice of General Ibrahim Babangida as keynote speaker at this year’s Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) grand awards night saying that the erstwhile head of state subverted the very ideal, which the Nigeria writers community hold dearly. MORE>>