Senate yesterday threw out a motion seeking to secure the release of the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Raph Uwazuruike.
The motion sponsored by majority of the senators from the South East among other things called for the release of Chief Uwazuruike and other leaders of MASSOB.
Abuja - Renewed bid by the South East leaders in the Senate to secure a reprieve for the detained leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike suffered a major set back yesterday as Senate rejected a motion asking the Federal Government to release the detained leader.
editorial
Lagos - Having released the three ethnic militants - Gani Adams, Frederick Fasheun and Mujaheed Asari-Dokubo-the federal government will have a lot of explaining to do on why Chief Ralph Uwazurike, the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), is still left to languish in prison.
Abuja - The Senate yesterday resolved to probe all issues that led to last week's four-day strike action by organised labour just as it commended Nigerians, Labour and President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua for the matured approach adopted during the crisis.
opinion
Lagos - It is unfortunate that people always fail to learn from their mistakes or that of other people. It is unbelievable how people miss the opportunity they had to speak up, but, will start talking when it is no longer necessary and when the audiences might all "have gone home".
opinion
Lagos - Wabara is one of those selfish Igbo political elites that my generation wants out of the political limelight because he offered nothing to his people when he had the opportunity to do that and will not offer anything in the future.
editorial
Lagos - THE new administration of President Umaru Yar'Adua seems to be extending frontiers of its "restoration programme" when in obedience of a court order, Asari Dokubo was released from detention. Dokubo, leader of Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, NDPVF, was arrested and detained by immediate past administration for involvement in militia related activities considered unacceptable.
Kano - Force Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Abuja has released Nnewi-based millionaire business man, Chief Pius Okwuchukwu Ogbuawa detained in connection with the kidnapping of a Chinese national by militant group suspected to be members of Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).
Lagos - Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujaheed Dokubo-Asari, has insisted that the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) was the only solution to the Niger Delta crises.
Alhaji Dokubo-Asari, who was released recently by an Abuja Federal High Court on health grounds, made the call in an interview with Sunday Champion, claiming that he has lost weight.
Lagos - but . . . , say N/Delta leaders
"WE are definitely happy that Dokubo has been released, it is a good development from the new government under the leadership of President Umaru Yar'Adua but we hope that the government will address the fundamental issues involved in the Niger-Delta struggle because Asari's release is not the answer to the unemployment, poverty and absence of infrastructure facilities in the region."
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