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NIGER DELTA YOUTHS FINGER MINISTER, EX-GOVERNOR OVER ALLEGED PLOT TO REMOVE NDDC BOARD

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youths under the auspices of Youth Initiative for Education, Development and Empowerment of Niger Delta, Thursday, fingered minister of state for agriculture, Hon Heineken Lokpobiri, and former Bayelsa State governor, Mr Timipre Sylva the alarm over alleged plot to remove Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), board and the Managing Director. While this was stated by the President of the youth group, Amb. Agbonkpolor Splendour, at a world media conference held in Abuja, where he described their move as act of desperation and falsehood over the tenure of the present board of the NDDC. According to his explanation over the purported expiration as claimed by those leaders from the region he alleged of making moves to convince President Muhammadu Buhari to dissolve the NDDC board by December 2017, was not in line with the provision of the Act setting up the commission, therefore called on Mr President to ignore all calls capable of balkanizing the nation by vested interest...
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AU, EU leaders plan immediate evacuation of migrants in Libyan detention centers

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More than 700 thousand migrants held in Libya are to be evacuated urgently. The question of migrants and their mistreatment dominated the just concluded AU-EU Summit, where this immediate move to save the mostly sub Saharan Africans held in Libyan detention camps was agreed on Thursday. While Morocco has offered to facilitate air transport for the return trips, African and European leaders want networks of smugglers destroyed.  " I think to say today that there are not enough legal ways of immigration is not correct. Last year, the European Union countries issued almost 3.4 million residence permits to nationals of developing countries and Middle East and Africa citizens are the main beneficiaries." “We decided to set up Special Forces in some countries to fight against the traffickers and then to seize the accounts,” Alpha Condé, President of Guinea. “President Deby seized 18 billion, president Issoufou even more, and President Macron informed us that there a...
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CJN Onnoghen speaks on alleged lopsided appointments

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Walter Onnoghen, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, has dismissed reports of bias in the recommendation of 14 Appeal Court judges for approval. Report had it that the National Judicial Council, NJC, in its recommendation had excluded judges from the South East. Reacting to the report, Onnoghen, in a statement by the NJC’ s Director of information, Soji Oye, described a certain list currently in circulation online as “fake news.” Despite, what it termed fake news, the CJN confirmed an ongoing process for the appointment of new judges for the Appeal Court. The statement reads, “The attention of the National Judicial Council has been drawn to a purported list of Judges newly appointed to the Court of Appeal being circulated in public space and tragically reported as news item by credible news outlets. “The Council wishes to dissociate itself completely from the said list as nothing of such emanated from it. Members of the public are also advised to discountenance the said lis...
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Why PDP, with or without Atiku can’t sack Buhari – Okupe

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A former Aide to the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan, has declared that with or without former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic party, PDP cannot unseat President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, had on Friday last week officially tendered his resignation letter, and now reportedly heading to the PDP. Atiku left the party prior to the 2015 general elections. But Okupe, a former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Jonathan, who also dumped the PDP for the Accord Party, AP, earlier in the year, said in an Instagram post that welcoming Atiku into the opposition party should not scare President Buhari. He, however, noted that only a formidable coalition can sack President Buhari and the APC. He wrote, “Only another formidable coalition can remove PMB. Not one party. “Certainly not PDP with or without Atiku.”
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$2.1bn arms fraud: Tafida slams EFCC over attempt to arrest Ekpeyong

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The Chairman of Arewa Youth For Good Governance, Jibril Lawal Tafida, has condemned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s desperate bid to rope in the immediate past Director General of the Department of State Services, Ita Ekpenyong, into the $2.1 billion arms scam, three years after leaving office. Recall that but for the timely intervention of the men of the DSS few days ago, the EFCC would have  whisked Ekpenyong away from his Asokoro home.  In a statement sent to DAILY POST on Saturday, the youth leader described the move as strange, despicable and an afterthought since Ekpenyong was never invited or questioned in relation to the arms probe. He was also miffed at EFCC’s disregard for its autonomy and expressed shock over the unholy attempt by the anti-graft agency to drag its former DG into the arms scandal in 2017 when the Presidential Panel on the Arms probe, which started work in 2015, neither questioned him because he had nothing to do...
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Biafra: Soldiers gave us human meat as Suya – Sobowale

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A veteran journalist and professor of journalism, Idowu Sobowale, has revealed how he and other journalists were served human meat as Suya while covering the events of the civil war. He said this while calling on people singing war songs to have a rethink, adding that war is not something to joke with. Sobowale, who also served as a political adviser to a former Lagos State Governor, Lateef Jakande, told Punch how the capital of Anambra State, Awka, was levelled to the ground with no single building standing. He said, “If you hear people singing war songs, they are most probably people who have never experienced war. Even if you escape, seeing the sufferings of others can be terrifying. “There was a day when we got to the third marine command and the commander, Benjamin Adekunle, asked if we (journalists) liked Suya, he said we should get into the vehicle and he took us to where Biafra armoured cars had been disabled, with soldiers killed inside them. The place was terribly ...
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I'm Still In EFCC Custody Says Anyim

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Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, says he is still the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, contrary to the impression being created that he has been released. The EFCC arrested Anyim in connection with a sum of N520m, which he allegedly collected from ex-National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, on the eve of the 2015 general election. The EFCC said he is also investigating Anyim for alleged contract scam of N13bn. Sources in the EFC had reportedly said on Monday that the ex-SGF had been released on bail after he submitted his passport to the anti-graft agency. But in a statement on Friday by his lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), he denied having been freed, saying he was not allowed to go despite the administrative bail. In the said statement, titled, “Anyim is still in the EFCC Gulag, kept under inhuman and degrading conditions,” Ozekhome said the report of Anyim’s release was misleading. He said, “The truth i...
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