August 18, 2019

How 2 UK firms outsmarted Nigeria with Yar’Adua on sick bed

How 2 UK firms outsmarted Nigeria with Yar’Adua on sick bed

August 18, 2019 12:02 pm

The several months late President Umaru Yar’Adua spent on the sick bed prior to his demise on May 5, 2010, paved the way for Process & Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID), a tiny natural gas company to hoodwink the federal government into allegedly signing a gas supply and processing agreement (GSPA) which may cost the country a whopping $9 billion following last week’s British Commercial Court ruling, THISDAY findings have shown.

If the judgment is executed and the aforementioned amount is to be paid, the UK firm might walk away with 20 per cent of Nigeria’s external reserves, which stood at …

Ihedioha calls for peace between NAF, communities over land

Ihedioha calls for peace between NAF, communities over land

August 18, 2019 11:12 am

Gov. Emeka Ihedioha of Imo has called for peace between the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) and its host communities over a land dispute, according to Mr Chibuike Onyeukwu, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, in a statement.

In the statement issued in Owerri on Saturday, Ihedioha noted that the dispute between Obube and Umuowa communities in Owerri North and Ngor Okpala local government areas respectively and NAF Regiment 211 had lingered.

The governor who visited the area with the Commandant of the Regiment, Group Capt. Phillip Bindul, appealed to the communities to withdraw the case on the matter from …

Nigeria loses ₦1,085 trillion daily to fuel smuggling

Nigeria loses ₦1,085 trillion daily to fuel smuggling

August 18, 2019 3:08 am

Daily, an estimated seven million litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), better known as petrol, valued at N1, 085t is smuggled from Nigeria to neighbouring West African countries.

With daily consumption of about 52 million litres of petrol per day according to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), The Guardian understands that only about 45 million litres are eventually circulated within the country while approximately seven million litres are smuggled to countries where the product is sold for higher turnover.

Neighbouring Chad sells the cheapest petrol at the equivalent of N322, and industry sources told The Guardian that using N300 …

APC vows to appeal Ekweremadu’s victory

Ekweremadu assault: Revolution has begun – Ohanaeze youths

August 18, 2019 2:37 am

The youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said that the latest attack on former Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu was an ominous sign that some fire of revolution might have begun to burn across the land.

It however condemned the purported assault on the lawmaker at a New Yam celebration event in Nuremburg German and called for a more humane approach to things.

In a statement this evening, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, President- General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide said: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide watched keenly the recent harassment and assault on the immediate past Deputy Senate President, Sen Ike …

The Afonjas of Igboland

The Afonjas of Igboland

August 18, 2019 2:01 am

By Odumodu Gbulagu

Just as Afonja sold out, and because of his inordinate ambition, enlisted the Fulani through Alimi to help him fight his brothers, his subsequent fallout with the people he enlisted, his death and takeover of Ilorin by the Fulani; so it is in the South-East during Saturday 23rd February sham called elections.

The personal ambitions of these lots, made them connive with Jubril (Buhari) to rig the elections in the South-East.

They systematically agreed after a meeting that all the South-East Governors must give Jubril (Buhari) the constitutional 25% of the total votes cast in every state.…

Why I dissolved Ohanaeze branches in Ghana, London – Nwodo

Why I dissolved Ohanaeze branches in Ghana, London – Nwodo

August 18, 2019 1:35 am

President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Nnia Nwodo, has said he dissolved the organisation’s branches in Ghana and London because of increasing factions.

Nwodo said the leadership of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation was worried about the development and would no longer tolerate any faction in the body, anywhere in the world.

The Ohanaeze boss spoke at Abagana in Njikoka Local Government Area of the state during the celebration of this year’s New Yam Festival, organised by the President of Igbo World Assembly, Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze.

He lamented the seeming disunity among Ndigbo and urged the people to …

RUGA: IPOB accuses Umahi of dispossessing Ebonyi landowners

RUGA: IPOB accuses Umahi of dispossessing Ebonyi landowners

August 18, 2019 12:45 am

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has accused Ebonyi State governor, Dave Umahi of ordering the arrest and detention of Ezza people to dispossess them of their land for the suspended Rural Pastoral Grazing Areas (RUGA) of the Federal Government.

In a statement made available to The Guardian and signed by its Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, IPOB said its attention had “been drawn to the purported mass arrest of supposed members of IPOB in Ebonyi State by Governor Dave Umahi” under the guise that those abducted were Biafrans planning an anniversary.…

A customer shot a waiter dead at an eatery on the outskirts of Paris, apparently enraged at being made to wait for a sandwich,

French waiter shot dead for being ‘too slow with sandwich’

August 18, 2019 12:27 am
A customer shot a waiter dead at an eatery on the outskirts of Paris, apparently enraged at being made to wait for a sandwich, a source close to the investigation said Saturday.

The waiter’s colleagues called police after he was shot in the shoulder with a handgun in the Noisy-le-Grand suburb east of Paris on Friday night, the source said.

Attempts to revive the 28-year-old failed and he died at the scene.

The gunman, who a witness said lost his temper “as his sandwich wasn’t prepared quickly enough”, fled the scene.

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