EVENING UPDATES: Yar’Adua approves release of MEND leader, Henry Okah

President Umaru Yar’Adua on Thursday approved the release of the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Mr. Henry Okah.
Reuters reports that Yar’Adua approved Okah’s release that the MEND leader had accepted government’s offer of an amnesty. Yar’Adua is currently in Aquila, Italy for the meeting of the Grouo of Eight Most Industrialised nations, to which Nigeria, South Africa, Libya, Senegal and some other countries have been invited.


Appeal court sacks Anambra Rep

The Court of Appeal, Enugu has sacked Mr. Chuma Nzeribe from the House of Representatives.
Our correspondent reports that the court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to withdraw the certificate of return issued to the federal lawmaker, representing Ihiala Federal Constituency and issue another one to Mr. Vitalis Okafor of the Action Congress, whom it declared as the winner of the April 2007 poll.

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