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Beggars reject new coins ,  ‘They are heavy’

12 - 08 - 2007

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DESPITE reassurance by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), traders, beggars, motorcyclists, and praise-singers in Kebbi State are rejecting the new coins from customers and alms givers.
The new coins were introduced together with some denominations of the naira six months back.
Some of the traders and beggars who spoke to New Nigerian on Sunday in Birnin-Kebbi over the new coins lamented that the coins were too heavy to hold.”
A trader at the central market Birnin Kebbi Malam Atiku B/K told New Nigerian On Sunday that he always send back his customers coming to his shop to buy some commodities with coins.
A beggar (Indo) at a newspaper stand in Kebbi rejected alms of coins dropped into a bowl by passers-by.
At the Union Bank in Birnin-Kebbi branch, a huge amount of coins awaited customers to come and collect.
http://www.newnigeriannews.com/cover6.htm

Bandits kill 15, bomb NNPC, radio stations
By Ibanga Isine and Mudiaga Affe
Published: Sunday, 12 Aug 2007
Bandits on Saturday bombed two government facilities in Port Harcourt and killed no fewer than 15 persons on the sixth day of their onslaught on the state.

Four of those killed were policemen, who were shot at their duty posts in Trans-Amadi, Garrison and Diobu.

The gun-wielding youths reportedly detonated dynamites on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Mega Station and Radio Rivers on Degema Street before daybreak.

They killed a security man in a house close to the radio station, but could not gain access to the transmitters of the station.

The gunmen later moved towards the main industrial area of the state, Trans-Amadi and killed three riot policemen.

In Garrison, they gunned down a riot policemen and a civilian, who were apparently unaware of the invasion of the city by the attackers.

No fewer than 15 bullet-riddled corpses had been recovered and deposited at the Rivers State-owned Braithwaite Memorial Hospital near the Government House Port Harcourt, by daybreak.

The Nigerian Army moved in soldiers to check the festering security situation.

The soldiers deployed from the 2nd Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, immediately mounted roadblocks from the entrance of the Government House to the Old Port Harcourt Township and frisked motorists and pedestrians.

The police came out with more Armoured Personnel Carriers and deployed their men in all the roads to curtail the excesses of the militias.

As the stop-and-search operations began, soldiers intercepted a Carina Toyota car loaded with arms and ammunitions just as it was heading towards the Government House, Port Harcourt.

The occupants reportedly opened fire and wounded a soldier on the leg, while the soldiers in turn killed two of them and destroyed the car.

The relics of the car was left at the Government House Road Junction with one of the head lamps still on for sometime and was later towed away by policemen from the Governor’s Office.

Some posters of a former member of the Rivers State House of Assembly were reportedly found in the car used by the militants and taken away by security agents. It was not clear at press time if the former lawmaker had been questioned.

Worried by the worsening situation in Port Harcourt, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Andrew Azazi, and the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, flew into Port Harcourt and held a closed-door meeting with the state Governor, Mr. Celestine Omehia, on the development in the state.

Addressing newsmen at the end of the meeting, Okiro said the security agencies were set to battle the criminals in Port Harcourt and bring an end to the killings in the state.

He said the killings were unacceptable to the Federal Government and that the government was all out to put an end to the lawlessness in the city.

Okiro said, “We want to confront these hoodlums head on. On the lawlessness we see in Port Harcourt, we are here to make sure that it is stopped. The hoodlums have been confronted by the JTF today.”

Okiro, who attributed the violence, which started in Port Harcourt since last Monday, to the clash by rival gangs, disclosed that the JTF had drawn up strategies to deal with the growing insecurity in the state.

The IGP said that the situation on the ground did not warrant the declaration of a state of emergency, as the security agencies were in full control of the situation.

The police boss stated, “The mere fact that we are here should tell you that the Federal Government has already taken action.

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http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2007081215565057

Woman beaten to pulp - For rejoicing over Tokyo’s arrest
By Wale Sadeeq - 12.08.2007

A woman in her early 50s, Friday, had a raw deal in the hands of some members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) at the Iwo Road motor park in Ibadan, as she was beaten to pulp for jubilating over the arrest of Alhaji Lateef Akinsola Tokyo.


Akinsola, chairman of the Oyo State branch of the NURTW was arrested by the police along with 14 other members of the union last Wednesday over various killings in the state.


Sunday Tribune gathered that the woman who sells rice near the motor park, had burst into wild jubilation on hearing from the Yoruba version of newspapers review on Splash FM, an Ibadan-based private radio station, that the NURTW boss and 14 others had been picked up by the police.


The woman, it was further gathered, was equally joined by some of her children and a friend to celebrate the arrest which, according to them, would ease the tension in the ancient city and put paid to the several cases of violence and politically-motivated attacks on some citizens.


An eye witness told the Sunday Tribune that no sooner had the jubilation stopped than the hoodlums swooped on them and beat the woman to a state of coma for openly expressing delight over the plight of the union leader.


It took the intervention of some passers-by and travellers before the woman was finally rescued from the hoodlums who however did not retreat without leaving a warning to deal ruthlessly with anybody that dare celebrate the arrest of Tokyo who, they said, was only being punished for what he knew nothing about.


The incident caused panick among traders within the motor park, most of whom hurriedly closed their shops to escape the wrath of the union members.


The woman was later taken to an undisclosed hospital for medical attention.
http://www.tribune.com.ng/12082007/news/news7.html

More troubles for Dangote
By Our Reporter - 12.08.2007

There seems to be no respite for Alhaji Aliko Dangote, after losing out in the multi-million naira refinery sale deal.

Feelers from the Presidency recently showed that the multi-millionaire is heading for more trouble as the Federal Government is now beaming its searchlight on his activities in the business sector.


In fact, Presidency sources said that Alhaji Dangote’s business transactions, especially the series of waivers granted him by the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, which was said to have run into several billions of dollars, has attracted the attention of government.


The Yar’Adua govern-ment, the sources said, was determined to go to the root of why these waivers were granted and what Nigeria benefited from the concessions given.


Another problem which Dangote is now facing with the Federal Government was the withdrawal of his uncle’s jetty by the Presidency of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.


The jetty was allegedly said to have been forcefully collected by the then Federal Government from Usman Dantata and given to Alhaji Dangote and that the Presidency has now decided to right the wrong.


Alhaji Dangote was invited to Aso Rock last week where he allegedly faced presidency officials and was asked to prepare his defence for these transactions.


According to the sources, Alhaji Dangote reportedly rushed to Ota Farm where he met a brick wall in former President Olusegun Obasanjo who was said to have advised his now former friend to go and explain his position to the government.


Afraid that his business empire was being threatened, Sunday Tribune learnt that from Ota Farm, Alhaji Dangote flew in his private jet to Minna to solicit the support of former Military President, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.


Dangote was said to have arrived Minna Airport at about 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday and had a private audience with General Babangida which lasted close to three hours before leaving the Niger State Capital.


Sunday Tribune sources which were privy to the discussions said, though General Babangida appre-ciated the problem his guest was into, the former President tactically refused to intercede between the business mogul and President Yar’adua because of an existing agreement that the new Nigerian leader be given a free hand to run the country.


However, Minna Uphill sources said that what actually annoyed General Babangida and made him to resolve not to mediate in the unfolding face-off was because of Alhaji Aliko Dangote’s failure to call on IBB either personally or by proxy throughout the eight years of Obasanjo’s rule.


Why is it that it is now that he is in trouble that he knows the road to Minna, an uphill source reportedly quoted General Babangida as telling a close friend.


Efforts by Sunday Tribune to get Alhaji Dangote’s comment either in Lagos or Abuja proved abortive.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/12082007/news/news4.html

Ohakim lays out blue print

Question: Can you tell us some contents of your blue print for the development of Imo state?

Answer We are going to create what we call a mega-magic. We are designing what we call the Imo Wonder Lake project in Oguta. It is an Edu-tainment centre and conferencing resort targeted at employing at least 15,000 people within the first one year of operation. As at today, the chief executive of the Wonder Lake, Joe Nzepuome, an America-based specialist, has assumed duties. We are approaching the Stock Exchange for a tourism bond of thirty billion naira. And we are raising another fifty billion naira from foreign and local private investors. So, a total of eighty billion naira is being penciled down for that project, which will take off in the next couple of months.

Question: Are you looking at something on the scale of Tinapa?

Answer: Tinapa is purely commercial - buying and selling. Our own is on a bigger scale, but it is a place you can bring your children, there is an 18-hole golf course there already. It will be able to handle five international conferences simultaneously. International football clubs can come there for training.

It will have a movie village, for those who are into movie production. It will have a water park, floating restaurants and so on. It will be dovetailed into the international calendar of tourism, a major destination for those on summer holidays.

The water park will make for easy access to people from the entire
South East and South-South. We are doing an airstrip there and trying to dualise the road from the Sam Mbakwe International Airport to the town in Owerri so that accessibility will not be a hindrance when the project kicks off.

Question: The River Niger is yet to be developed or dredged. How can you have such a facility in Oguta when the River Niger is still as nature wishes? Without that, the value of the Oguta Lake will never be appreciated?

Answer: Apparently, whether the River Niger is dredged or not, it will have nothing to do with Oguta Wonder Lake. But the Federal Government has continued to award contracts upon contracts for the dredging of the River Niger. And we do hope that the present administration will be able to take the bull by the horn and dredge the River Niger, and also dredge the waterway and put the inland port designed by the Federal Government to be at Oguta Lake. Be that as it may, we are going ahead with this project and it has nothing to do with the River Niger. Oguta Lake is still very accessible.

Question: You have oil and gas background. And your state is an oil producing state.

Answer: I don’t know if it also produces gas. But it has been treated as inconsequential, along with Abia State as an oil producing state, which helps to give the nation its sustenance. What are you going to do to put Imo State in its proper place as an oil producing state to be taken seriously by all stakeholders, and also as a frontline state between the Niger-Delta and the Nigerian hinterland?

I am very pleased to tell you that the present administration led by President Umar Musa Yar’Adua, has recognised Imo and Abia States as among the coastal states of Nigeria and a frontline state of the Niger Delta region. We are now back as a coastal state. We are participating in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) projects and programmes. I don’t think anybody in this administration will treat us as if we are inconsequential.

It is not possible. We shall not agree. And nobody is doing that now, for the information of the general public. We are satisfied with our lot and status as an oil producing, coastal state of Nigeria.
Question:

What about the oil companies? What are you doing to wake them up to the fact that they are operating on an easy and peaceful and secure land and they have a responsibility to the people among whom they operate?

Most of the oil companies in our midst are beginning to realise that they are operating in a very good environment. They also do their surveys. The critical thing is that we are marketing Imo State to the oil companies, and they are marketing themselves to us. We are building a partnership with them. Our oil producing status is increasing, with the discovery of more petroleum reserves in the North western areas of the state.

Question: I have heard about this one hundred naira per adult Igbo levy for the dualisation of the Onitsha-Owerri-Aba federal highway. Is it feasible? And what do you really want to achieve by it?

If every Igbo man pays that money, we shall have a lot of money left over. There are 85 million Igbos in the world. Even though 30 million are in the South East, the rest are outside the zone and in the diaspora. I have been reading a lot of comments on this call, which is a result of my interaction with traditional rulers. I have read a lot of articles on the internet saying why should Governor Ohakim ask people to pay money when the Federal Government can pay for it. We have waited for the Federal Government since 1999.

The Igbo built the Owerri Airport without Federal Government intervention. Today, the Federal Government is collecting revenue on that airport without giving us anything out of it. It has become the biggest fallback position of the aviation industry since the closure of the Port Harcourt International Airport.

Can you imagine the situation Nigerians would have found themselves in, if the Sam Mbakwe International Airport had not been built by the Igbo with their hard earned money? How would we continue to access the oil producing zones and business interests there?

We thank the Federal Government for awarding the Owerri-Onitsha road contract, but shall we die on the road before it is completed? Is it our great grand children that will drive on the road? Is it not better for us to complete the road, start using the road and then collect our money back from the Federal Government which has agreed to pay back? I am not saying that Igbo should complete Federal Government jobs. But who are using the roads? Is it not our people and brothers and friends from other parts of Nigeria? If we pay one hundred naira each – I am saying one hundred naira minimum because some people will pay one thousand naira while some will contribute millions.

We have in place now, cooperation between the eastern governors to build a major industrial park for our entrepreneurs. We cannot continue to wait for the Federal Government to finance such a programme, which will cost about a billion dollars. We have to bring in the Federal Government, Bank of Industry, foreign investors. The Igbo are an endangered species.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/viewpoints/vp112082007.html

Bloodbath in Port Harcourt
GEORGE ONAH Port Harcourt
Posted to the Web: Sunday, August 12, 2007



*15 killed
*Okiro, defence chief rush in
*Residents call for emergency rule



SHOOTINGS, allegedly by cultists, for the sixth day running, continued in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, yesterday, as no fewer than 15 persons were killed and scores injured in an early morning shooting by unidentified gunmen amid calls for the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in the state as a step to check the massive shootings and killings. The inspector general of police, Mr. Mike Okiro and the chief of defence staff, General Andrew Owoye Azazi, rushed into the state, yesterday, to help in curtailing the killings.

Although Okiro and the state government, which spoke through the state commissioner for information, Mr. Emma Okah, described the emergency call as ‘nonsensical’, the renewed carnage led to the vandalization of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, mega station at Lagos Bus Stop overlooking Aggrey Road.

About nine fuel pumps at the NNPC mega filling station were blown up. Also affected was the office of the state radio corporation, Radio Rivers Two. Some parts of the building were riddled with bullets and one security man gunned down. Dynamites were reportedly freely detonated.

One of those reportedly killed was a driver of a Mitsubishi bus that left his home about 5.00 a.m. to distribute bread to his customers. Sources said he was among those hit by bullets around the Lagos bus stop axis of the state capital. It could not be confirmed but some sources said the cultists drove close to the Government House that early morning to open fire. Security has, however, been beefed up on all the roads leading to the Government House. No vehicle at press time was allowed to drive close to any of the roads with passengers. Pedestrians were severely frisked before being allowed to pass through .

Also, security has been tightened up on Birabi Street, GRA which  leads to the residence of the former governor of the state, Dr Peter Odili. Motorists and Okada riders were turned back at a barricade mounted by fierce looking Mobile police men on the road. Military helicopters were seen hovering around strategic locations in the state capital. The alleged cultists shot around Water lines, Slaughter and Rumuola areas of the state.

Strangely, witnesses said, the killers wore mobile police uniform, while some said they saw men in military fatigue among the gunmen. But Sunday Vanguard gathered that the men in military uniform were not wearing jungle hat, beret or helmet. They were, according to the witnesses, wearing army camouflage and white canvas. However, the ones in Mopol uniform, according to eye witnesses, had the badge, black shoes, Mopol cap and were carrying AK 47, dynamite, pump-action rifles and military (gun) rifle. Most of them were in dark glasses and some were smoking cigarette.

The shootings woke the city dwellers up at about 6.00 a.m. on a day that had been declared as sanitation day. Apparently divided into groups, the gunmen commenced the shootings in Trans-Amadi Industrial Layout, the city centre, along Aggrey Road, veering into Degema Street and beyond.

As the rat-tat-tat, gbum, gbum-sound hit the city, frantic banging of doors of early risers could be heard in the neighbourhood, followed by the ranting noise of some commercial motorcycles that ventured into the streets for brisk business before the 7.00 a.m. deadline for movement. Vehicles heading for the city centre and Ogbunabali, Elekohia and Stadium areas either beat a quick retreat or made detour for safety. There was total chaos as motorists told drivers of vehicles from the opposite direction to turn back in a hurry as “the situation behind is very bad.”

In the interim, the military has been drafted to protect the governor, Sir Celestine Omehia, while policemen protect government offices, leaving civilians to their fate. Calls from Marine Base, Gbundu Waterside, indicated that the operation started from the water fronts. “The men came from the creeks because around 3.00 a.m. or about 3.15 a.m,. we heard sounds or engine boats, sailing towards Marine Base area. We just thought they could be ordinary travellers. It was later that we understood that the sound of the boats was that of the people shooting”, a resident who did not want his name in print said.

The state government said the situation was under control and that there was no reason for people to panic, because the situation was not beyond what it could handle. As calls for emergency rule to be declared in the state following the seeming inability of the state government to curtail the situation heightened, Okiro, who was in Port Harcourt yesterday in company of the chief of the defense staff, General Andrew Owoye Azazi, for a top security meeting on how to curtail the killings, said the situation had not degenerated to a level where emergency rule should be enforced.

He said the Joint Task Force, made of the police, army, navy, had been strengthened to address the situation. ‘Lawlessness will no longer be allowed in Port Harcourt. I don’t agree that an emergency rule be declared. It is an internal cult war. And the JTF is confronting them. The Federal Government is taking action”, the inspector-general of police stated.

Meanwhile, the state Security Service, SSS, in the state, yesterday, shut down a private radio station for some hours for airing a programme ‘View Point” where some guests called for emergency rule to be declared in the state. Also arrested was the news editor of the station, Mr. Segun Owolabi, after SSS operatives stormed the station and stopped transmission. At press time, Owolabi had not been released while the station was back on air.
The Action Congress, AC, in Rivers State condemned the SSS action, describing it as “a misapplication of force”.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/headline/f112082007.html

Why are Ijaws causing trouble all over the place?

Sorry, but the BPE boss is still in charge

http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/headline/f111082007.html

How Ibori bought WILBROS
Nig Ltd with $155 Million
, Linked With Funding Militant Groups




The mafia style engaged by some notable Nigerian politicians is gradually becoming clear to watchers of events in the country. Former Delta State Governor, Mr. James Ibori is arousing wide-spread curiosity on account of his alleged role in using his executive influence to overwhelmingly use some Niger-Delta militants to drive out of Nigeria a well known oil servicing engineering company, Willbros Engineering.
Ibori bought the Tulsa, Oklahoma based company for a record $155 Million and the company hurriedly left town.
Only last week Ibori's £20 million assets were frozen by the London Metropolitan Police through a British High Court order.
In a development that has been described by intelligence sources as "typical" and "a matter of consistent pattern" the Ibori-Wilbros matter may have now become a guiding light for unraveling the source of fund and ammunition that regularly stoke insurgent activities in the Nigerian oil rich Niger-Delta.
Also being investigated in the same vein is former Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Diepreye Alamieyesiegha who is also alleged to have used some Ijaw youths to stage kidnaps and ransom demands to blackmail the central government in Nigeria in order to foist a fraudulent air of power and influence.
According to pointblanknews.com investigation, Ibori and Alamieyesiegha, two Nigerian prominent politicians already indicted for corrupt enrichments and stealing of public funds and money laundering activities could face possible extradition to the United States if there is "actionable intelligence" identifying them as sponsors of kidnapping activities aimed at expatriate workers in Nigeria. Already the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA is said to be closing in on some of the alleged activities of the Governor which were aimed at "funding of illegal arms and kidnappings in Nigeria."
Pointblanknews.com learnt that Mr. Ibori once expressed interest in acquiring majority share in Willbros Engineering sometimes in 2005. His overtures were rebuffed. To the officials running Willbros operations in Nigeria did not know that that would not be the last episode of a saga that would later attract the attention of the entire world. Ibori was said to have bid a retreat and started a complicated plot that would eventually lead to his eventual take over of the lucrative company.
Source who wanted anonymity "in respect of discussing a top security even" revealed that Ibori allegedly contacted a militant group which he purportedly sponsors and allegedly made a deal that would later lead to the abduction of nine Willbross workers in February 2006.
It was said that the company did not suspect any connection between the Governor and the kidnappers. Willbros was said to have innocently solicited the help of the Governor to secure freedom for its hostage workers. Ibori was said to have promised to assist within the shortest possible time. Off course he did.
But forceful abduction of oil workers did not stop. Willbross officials therefore panicked and went back to Governor Ibori to willingly beg him for a possible take over of the company. He expressly obliged and made and initial payment of $105 Million cash. He would later come to the United States shortly after leaving office and paid the balance of $50Million to Wilbross parent company in Oklahoma before proceeding to Monaco to attend the wedding of the son of Abacha's ally and Lebanese billionaire, Gilbert Chagoury.
A company source at the headquarter offices of Wilbros confirmed to Pointblanknews.com that the deal with Mr. Ibori "was a cash transaction and we would not want to say more than that please."
In 2002 there were inconclusive suspicions that Governors Ibori and Alamieyesiegha were involved in importing arms into Nigeria. The immediate purpose for the importation was not clear. But the two strong men in of Nigeria South-South politics took advantage of a moratorium granted on importations by the then nascent Obasanjo leadership. The cargo allegedly loaded with arms escaped security scrutiny. Recent increase in militants' activities in the Niger-Delta, incessant armed robbery and unresolved mysteries of contract killings have led investigators into concluding that those importations may have links.
Despite obvious logic indicating that Ibori may have been involved in with spread feelings of fear and insecurity in Nigeria, nobody can vouch for a smooth ride for CIA in seeking for his extradition to the US. Washington may not have the full backing of the present administration in Nigeria in seeking to bring people like Ibori and Alamieyesiegha to justice on activities classified as "terrorism." Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo was said to have made an inexcusable gaffe in allegedly obtaining detailed "intelligence report" on Ibori and Alamiesiegha; instead of taking action in accordance with the law, he was said to have used his knowledge of the issue to blackmail Ibori to donating N10 Billion to the Yar'Adua for Presidency campaign. The N10 Billion campaign donation by Ibori remains his ticket into unhindered access to the presidency.
When Pointblanknews.com contacted the EFCC's office in Abuja, the spokesman, Mr. Osita Nwaja was not available to comment on the issues relating to Ibori's investigation but a reliable source hinted that "Ibori is one of those we are investigating. We already have the briefs from the Metropolitan Police and we are combining that with what we have here in Nigeria on him."
The EFCC source added, "In no distant time we shall prosecute him and others we have been working on."

http://www.thephctelegraph.com/stories/010807/0808news_05.html

Simply me.
Now that you have agreed that you consume male-Cambodian shit, please tell us how Cambodian man shit they taste

simply_me:
Xris74 - another shit infected Naija mon.

Your profile says what you do Cambodia. Your own shit na for Oyibo man yansh you dey carry am,

I will make him popular in oil-mediated high blood pressure. You no say we all go by pseudonyms here. Ono might well be the pseudonym of the new oil minister of state. Hahaha.

Doyin 13,

Do not cry more than the bereaved. Ogun does not produce Ekpo oko (motor). lol

NNPC staff, wife nabbed in pipeline rupture
By JULIANA FRANCIS
Saturday, August 11, 2007


•The pipeline vandals at their ‘workshop’ digging and siphoning (up) and proceeds of the illicit act surfacing in jerry cans (below) from where they fill tankers for delivery to the maket.
PHOTO: OYIN BADA-ONIME
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Barely 24 hours after the Federal Government relieved the Group Managing Director, Nigeria National Petro-leum Corporation(NNPC), Mr Funsho Kupolokun of his job, a six-man suspected pipeline vandals led by an officer of the corporation, Mathew Ibikunle who gave him some sleepless nights while in office was arrested Friday.

The suspects, including a woman, was said to have been nabbed while attempting to syphone fuel after vandalising a pipeline at the Ejigbo pipeline road area of Lagos yesterday morning at about 2am. A police source alleged that the leader of the gang was one Mathew Ibikunle, who is an engineer with NNPC.

Recovered from them were five trailer tankers, a pumping machine and a valve already fixed to a pit they had dung.
The suspects were nabbed by a team of five policemen, led by the officer in charge (OC) of pipeline vandalization, Mr. Ibadin. while some of the vandals escaped, six were, however, appreneded, but Ibikunle was not one of those arrested.

The police discovered that an MTN kiosk was planted as a camouflage to screen off the hole already drilled by the vandals to carry out their criminal act. A source said: "Look at this hole, once they arrive, they would carry off the kiosk, fix their pipe, attach it to a tanker and fuel would start pumping. When they are through, they would drop a sack of sand inside, and cover it back. They would place back the kiosk, making it appear like an ordinary kiosk!"

The only female in the midst of the men identified herself as Ebun Ibikunle, wife of the gang leader now at large. She told Saturday Sun that she was arrested at her home, along the axis where the vandals used to operate. she denied knowing her husband was involved in the nefarious activity according to her, her husband is a labourer, who works for NNPC.

Asked the whereabouts of her husband, Ebun said he lives in another building, while she lives in the other assigned to her by her husband. She was, however, mum when asked if it was through the labourer job that Ibikunle built his two magnificent houses.

Meanwhile, residents of the area, have embarked on a celebration galore, expressing joy that a potential pipleline explosion had been averted. They prayed the government to do something about other vandals, because, "our lives are not safe and we don't have anywhere else to go. There is nobody who does not know how expensive it is to get accommodation. If these vandals could be stopped, we would sleep easy," they enjoined.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2007/aug/11/national-11-08-2007-003.htm

Yar’Adua Emerges NNPC’s GMD
President Umaru Yar’Adua on Friday approved the appointment of Mallam Abubakar Yar’Adua as the acting Group Managing Director of the NNPC following the removal of Mr. Funso Kupolokun.


The new helmsman, who is not a blood relation of the President, was the most senior Group Executive Director (GED) in the corporation before the appointment.

Note that I am also from Niger Delta, Abia.

denex:
@ ono

I'm still waiting for you to tell me what the Niger-Delta question is O! Please hurry!

You will certainly wait forever, mate. There is no genuine Niger Delta question. Everything is one big, fat ruse

Unripe abi over-ripe pawpaw,

Thanks for CONFIRMING YOU ARE INDEED AN IGNORAMUS.

I normally do not consult dictionaries because I do not need to. But for the benefit of Olodos like this rotten pawpaw:

The online Merrian-Webster dictionary defines pseudonym as a fictitious name; a false name

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=pseudonym

Otherwise,

Since Pawpaw is not your pseudonym, I am indeed sorry that Pawpaw is your real name. Forgive me for the commission of thinking that it is your pseudonym. On the other hand, Xris74 is a pseudonym.

This weird pawpaw guy looks like the same pawpaw fellow who genuflected for humble me at the Airport. He grovelled and begged to no end for just one Euro. When I obliged me, he kissed my shoes and said he will do anything for me.

Now on a more serious note, I will not reply to that shit he posted up there. Give pawpaw a VISA, and am sure he can't even find his way to Cotonou. Person wey no fit buy fish say him hate fish because fish too get bone.

And, why am I deviating from the crux of this thread on account of this PAWPAW idiot?

Now, back to the topic.

Both Xris74 and Pawpaw are pseudonyms, but Pawpaw is warped, just like the stupid genes that run in your system.

10 million incorruptible Nigerians? Sounds like a tall order

@Pawpaw
I see that idiocy runs in your genes. Little wonder you go by the warped pseudonym pawpaw. You write like you are one of them homos.

Doyin13,

For your info, I am also from ''Niger Delta''. My community in Abia state is oil-producing. So, if I see things differently why can't other NDs?

Greed, insatiation, lack of self worth, lure for filthy lucre etc, permeates Nigeria like water in a crack

Former Gov. Now Minister’s Aide


By Nnamdi Felix/Abuja

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar, has appointed a former governor as one of his aides. The new aide is the former military governor of Katsina State, Col. John Yahaya Madaki (retd). He held sway in 1991.

The FCT minister appointed Madaki as his Special Adviser on Security.

The appointment of the retired Colonel, according to the FCT Minister, is to assist his administration flush out miscreants from the Federal Capital Territory as promised while taking over the mantle of leadership of the FCT a fortnight ago.

The minister said that the appointment will also help him achieve one of the seven-point agenda of President Umar Musa Yar’Adua which is to make the FCT free from hoodlums and armed robbers.

Col. Madaki was also a one time commandant of the Brigade of Guards between 1992 and 1993 before retiring from the Army. He hails from Niger State.

The FCT Minister had earlier warned miscreants and men of the underworld to immediately relocate out of the Federal Capital Territory because there will be no hiding place for them as from next week.

The new Special Adviser will work with the new FCT security sub-committee set up by the minister to fashion out ways of redressing the state of insecurity in the Federal Capital Territory.

http://www.thenewsng.com/modules/zmagazine/article.php?articleid=18143

Nigeria has oil and its down there.

So, what makes any sane person assume that a new Niger Delta Republic (part of Nigeria, with all the useless negative tendencies of Nigeria in abundance) will not also be down there? The likes of Alams, Ibori, Igbinedion, Eric Opia, Anenih, Dokubo, Ateke Tom, Peter Odili, etc, are still around.

I am not talking about oil distribution and redistribution (whatever that means). I am concerned that this whole oil thing is much more than we comprehend. It is a straight ticket to hell. Brothers are known to have killed themselves because of oil in Rivers state. Eleme is a case point. I am fully in the know about those incidences.

Even within Eleme community where I lived (NNPC estate), there is always war between the sub-community where oil is found and those with no oil. This whole oil business is a dog-eat-dog thing. It is useless.

I asked that question because I remember the argument that all Nigerians are corrupt.

So where will ICPC get the incorruptible ones from?

Ok, now I see. They will not suspect men with men? But they have been catching them (man-man people) sha. ALL HAIL SHARIA.