Delta Regional Headline News -12/1/2008

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Niger Delta News Headlines
Today:Monday, December 01, 2008

Oshiomhole Now Edo Gov, Appeal Court Sacks Professor Osunbor
The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, this afternoon endorsed the ruling of the Edo Governorship Election Tribunal by declaring Comrade Adams Aliu Oshiomhole duly elected governor of Edo State.

Police Beat Niger Delta Youth Leader
The incidence of law enforcement officers beating up innocent citizens went up another notch recently, when a Niger Delta youth leader, Prince Dafe Atua, was almost beaten to death by mobile policemen attached to a bank.

Niger Delta: Ateke Tom Demands Amnesty
Leader of the Niger Delta Vigilante Group and one of the most wanted militia leaders in the region, Ateke Tom, has said that he is ready for a ceasefire, but would want the Justice Kayode Eso panel to meet him in his hideout in the creeks, being the only place where he can confess why he is up in arms against the federal government.

Alleged looting: Nine Osunbor’s aides arrested
THE Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have arrested nine aides of former Governor Oserheimen Osunbor for allegedly attempting to loot state government property at the Edo State Governor’s Lodge, Abuja.

Reverend King To Be Hanged In Kaduna
Should the appeal filed by the self-proclaimed Jesus of our time, Reverend Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a. Rev. King, against the death sentence passed on him by a Lagos High Court fail, the hangman’s noose is already waiting for him at the Kaduna prisons.

Abducted Lebanese, Bank Manager Released
Mr. Melad Nasari, a Lebanese and staff of Homer Engineering Construction Company Limited, abducted by unknown gunmen along the new East/West Road, Choba, near Port Harcourt, and one Mr. Patrick Akorodu, a manager with Zenith Bank, Omoku branch, in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers state, were, yesterday, released by members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).

MID-WEEK ESSAY: Derivation, Resource Control and the NPRC - Joining the debate
This is an essay of short sentences and a few long tables: so please bear with me. It is inspired largely by the dramatic developments in these dying days at the National Political Reform Conference (NPRC), when a fundamental disagreement over resource control and mineral derivation funds has arisen,..

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