The coast is now clear for the Economic and Financial Crime Commission EFCC to seize the properties of resistant Government Ekpemupolo popularly known as Tompolo, as a Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday granted it’s requested to confiscate the properties belonging to the former Niger Delta militant leader. Justice Ibrahim Buba ruled that the anti-graft agency…
Gunmen Seize Jonathan’s Foster Father
Unknown gunmen have abducted Inengite Nitabai, the foster father of former President Goodluck Jonathan. The 72-year-old was abducted in the early hours of Wednesday in his residence in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Nitabai was said to have been whisked away by seven heavily armed men. The septuagenarian was also kidnapped about…
Sherif Is New PDP Chairman
Alimodu Sherif, former governor of Borno state has been nominated has the new chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Olisa Metuh, the party’s publicity secretary said today in Abuja that the choice of Sherif, who had served as a senator before he became governor, was a consensus among the party’s national caucus, PDP governors’…
EX-UN Scribe Boutros-Ghali Is Dead
A former secretary-general of the United Nations; Boutros Boutros-Ghali is dead. The New York Times reports that the office of the current secretary general, Banki Moon, confirmed his death without specification on where and when he died. The man, who died at the age of 93, was the first African and the first Arab to…
Tackling The Exchange Rate Palaver
By Adetutu Bashorun It is interesting to observe that the CBN is grappling with thorny problems arising from its ambitious experiment leading to the inauguration of the Bureau de Change. We recall how CBN operated like a herdsman, gathered the street forex peddlers under one umbrella and approved guidelines to operate as a currency expert…
Niger Delta: Rising Tension In The Creeks
For one week, Ibadan, the capital of Oyo state stood still. It was not mourning, but celebrating one of its brightest and best. So it played host to people from all walks of life. They were there to pay last respects to Odugade Odulana, Olubadan of Ibadan, who is now with the ancestors. Click here…
Male birth control made easy?
Worried about having a vasectomy? Perhaps getting a device that may help, as a male birth control is the answer. The device, a valve-like structure, is the brainwork of Clemens Bimek, a German inventor. The device, known as Bimek SLV, which could be flipped on and off like a light switch, allow men to take…
The Rwanda Debacle and Oliseh’s Future
Are Nigerians already getting tired of Sunday Oliseh? I ask this question in light of the grumbling I hear over the failure of the Nigerian home based national team to qualify from the group stage of the CHAN championship in Rwanda. As coach of the team, Oliseh failed to lead his wards to match or…
Twitter Shuts Out ISIS
In accordance with its pledge to discourage the use of its blog to promote terrorism, Twitter, the popular social networking site has announced that it has so far suspended over 125,000 counts believed to have carried contents relating to terror. Many of the suspended accounts are said to have been linked to ISIS, the dreaded…
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