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Leadership (Abuja)Yenagoa - The authorities of the Military Task Force in the Niger Delta known as the Operation Restore Hope and the ex-militant leaders under the aegis of the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) yesterday disagreed over the allegation of bribery and extortion by some members of the security task force led by the commander, Major General Sarkin Yaki Bello.
Vanguard (Lagos)The president of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor,on July 6, became the first Pentecostal minister to emerge as the president of the umbrella body of Christians in Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN. In his first interview in his church office in Warri, the cleric speaks on his programme for Nigerian Christians and expresses his views on next year's elections.
Daily Independent (Lagos)Owerri - Leader of Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has condemned the arrest of about 68 of his members in Emekuku, near Owerri, on their way to the funeral of one Mrs. Margaret Anyaso, wife of a staunch member of MASSOB, Ambrose Anyaso in Ulakwo, near Owerri.
Vanguard (Lagos)Port Harcourt - Former militant leaders in the Niger-Delta, including Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, yesterday, asked the abductors of the Lagos NUJ chairman, Wahab Oba, and four others to release them in one piece and unconditionally, describing their action as barbaric.