NORWAY GOVERNMENT , EX NIGER-DELTA WARSHIP DEAL AND THE BRITISH CONSPIRACY

Norwegian Defence Chief, Haakon Bruun-Hansen, an admiral, has apologised to the country’s lawmakers for the sale of a fleet of a decommissioned naval battleships and combats boats to a former Niger Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo.
Mr. Ekpemupolo was the leader of one of the several militias in the Niger Delta region that led a devastating campaign of violence against the Nigerian state for several years until he was awarded a multi-billion pipeline protection contract by the out-going Goodluck Jonathan administration as part of an amnesty deal with ex-combatants.


After giving up fighting, surrendering his arms, and leading his men to hand over their weapons, Tompolo in 2012 received at least six decommissioned Norwegian battleships, a Norwegian newspaper, Daglabet, found in December.
Among them were six fast-speed Hauk-class guided missile boats, now re-armed with new weapons.
The most recent hardware was the KNM Horten, a fast-attack craft allegedly used for anti-piracy patrol in the Nigerian waters.
Daglabet reported that the sale was implemented through a shell maritime Security Company based in the United Kingdom, CAS Global.
CAS Global was used to evade a requirement by Norway that arms dealers obtain export license from their country’s foreign affairs ministry, the report adds.
Mr. Ekpemupolo runs Global West Vessel Service, which handles maritime security issues for the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA.

After the deal became public in December, the Director General of NIMASA, Patrick Ziakede Akpobolokemi, claimed the vessels were purchased as part of a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement in conjunction with the Nigerian Navy. He said the Navy has rearmed the vessels to enable it effectively carried out its anti-piracy patrol.
“As an arm of the government responsible for maritime safety, security and regulations amongst others, we work in conjunction with the Nigerian Navy and other relevant security agencies to use their men and arms to patrol and provide safety of the country’s water ways, as mandated by the global body, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).
“It is the Navy that has fitted their guns on the vessels to aid their policing of the maritime domain,” he said.
The Norwegian government also, at the time, defended the transaction, according to Daglabet newspaper, saying the export “followed correct procedure and terms of export to Great Britain. The re-export from Great Britain to Nigeria is a question to be handled solely by British export control authorities”.
But the report that Norway sold such military hardware to an individual with a history of violence angered the country’s lawmakers and triggered an investigation leading to the arrest of three Norwegian civil servants, now being charged for corruption.
Speaking during a parliamentary disciplinary committee enquiry into the sale of the battleships this week, the defence chief, Mr. Bruun-Hansen, admitted that military officials did not do proper due diligence before selling the decommissioned ships.
“The fact that the vessels have landed in Nigeria under Nigerian flag reflects a breakdown in our systems, and I apologize for that,” Mr. Bruun-Hansen said during Thursday’s hearing.
Mr. Bruun-Hansen was not the Chief of Defence at the time when the battle ship were sold to CAS Global.
News bureau NTB reported that Mr. Bruun-Hansen’s predecessor, Harald Sunde, who was in-charge when the deal was struck, also apologised saying he was disappointed over all the mistakes made.
He however blamed the breakdown of due diligence in the sale of the vessel to a reorganisation at the defence department’s logistics organization (FLO), at the time the sales was made.
Also speaking during the hearing, Norwegian Foreign Minister, Børge Brende, said a lot about the sale and export of the vessels are still not known and the state prosecutor has been ordered to seek possible criminal violations.
Dagbladet, which uncovered the shady deal, reported that a simple google search would have revealed that CAS Global only had a post office address, yet the military went ahead and allowed Nigerian representatives of the firm, probably handpicked by Mr. Ekpemupolo, to inspect the vessels before they were sold.
“Does this mean that anybody can buy these boats, as long as they sign a declaration?” asked an irate Member of Parliament, Erik Skutle. “Even terrorists? How on earth could this happen?” he added.
During the hearing, Petter Jansen, the head of FLO also tried unsuccessfully to answer questions about another revelation by Dagbladet that Norwegian military had another former Norwegian Coast Guard vessel, the KV Titran, through a South African brokerage company, Nautic Africa, which in turn sold the vessel to an unnamed Nigerian company. PREMIUM TIMES

YOUR CRIMINAL DAYS ARE OVER. NIGER DELTA AVENGERS MILITANT WARN MEND AND OTHERS

NIGERA DELTA AVENGERS WROTE
We appeal to the general public and all sane minds on the activities of Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) to disregards all purported statements and misplaced threat emanating from disbanded criminal elements like the so-called MEND (Movement For the Emancipation of The Niger Delta) that are political sidekicks and desperations from Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state, Mr. Timipre Silva and their political paymasters to hold their political party to the jugular of the affairs of the Niger Delta Region. That our struggle is focused on the liberation of the People of Niger Delta from decades of divisive rule and exclusion. We are watching keenly their regretful efforts at rebranding and regrouping criminal elements in the region for their short political gains and territories. The NDA is unperturbed, we have mandate that is clearly a departure of those old tactics of the defunct so-called MEND that was indulged in kidnapping, hostage taking, Sea piracy, illegal oil bunkering, bank robberies and social crimes, the likes of  Boyloafs, Ateke Toms, were associated to in their days in the name struggle. The wind of change in the Niger Delta struggle has come, we are are young, smart, and focused Niger deltans. Our mandate is to liberate the Niger Delta people; we don’t run after pipeline contracts.
God bless the Niger Delta People.
Brig.Gen Mudoch Agbinibo

Five cyclists killed, four injured in Michigan car crash

June  (Reuters) - Five cyclists were killed and four injured on Tuesday evening when a pickup truck collided with a cycling group along a road in southwest Michigan, officials said.
The cyclists were struck at about 6:30 p.m. local time along the shoulder of a rural road north of Kalamazoo, Michigan, by a pickup truck driven by a 50-year-old man, Kalamazoo County Prosecuting Attorney Jeff Getting told a news conference.
The man, who was not identified, was taken into custody. Charges against the driver could be filed on Thursday, Getting said.
Five bike riders were pronounced dead at the scene while four riders were taken to hospital. The identification of those killed and injured will not be made public until families are notified, Getting said.
Local ABC affiliate WZZM reported that one rider was in critical condition and another was in fair condition. The condition of the other two injured riders was unclear, the news station said.
Several local law enforcement agencies received calls about how the vehicle was being driven about 30 minutes before the collision, according to Getting.
"The police were actively looking for the vehicle based on the information that was called into them," he said.
Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas told local broadcaster WOOD, an NBC affiliate, that the driver fled on foot after the collision but was later taken into custody.
Getting said the driver was taken into custody after he was found a short distance away from the collision.
An earlier report said children were involved, but Getting said that all cyclists killed and injured were adults. He did give further details about the bike riding group.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco and Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Michael Perry and Frances Kerry)

NIGERIA FCT MINISTER REJECTS DANGOTE RAMADAN GIFT

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Muhammad Bello, has reportedly turned down food items donated by the Dangote Foundation for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Abuja.The Foundation, according to a  source, had taken the gift items, including sugar, salt, spaghetti, rice, danvita, and wheat meal worth millions of naira to the minister’s office yesterday but was bluntly rejected by him
All entreaties to make him realise that the items are meant for distribution to the needy like those in the IDP camps fell on deaf ears as Bello was said to have stated that he was not hungry and didn’t solicit for any donations.
In a swift reaction, however, the Special Adviser to the FCT Minister on Media, Mr. Abubakar Sani, said there was no truth in the report that the FCT Administration (FCTA) rejected the purported gift from Dangote Foundation to the IDPs.
According to Sani, “FCTA is not aware of any donations and therefore, not in the position to neither reject nor accept the said gift items.
“I asked who saw the said gifts and the answer was no one did,” he said.
In the same vein, the Director of Public Relations, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Abuja Office, Mr. Ishaya Chonoko, also said that the agency was not aware of such donations.
Chonoko said: “If the normal procedure was followed, we should be aware of such donations, but as far as we are concerned, no donations of such was made, at least to the best of our knowledge.”
The Foundation owned by the richest man in Africa, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, as part of its mandate to give especially in the holy month of Ramadan for the indigent and the vulnerable in the society, has the tradition of donating money and food materials to the less privileged and victims of other disasters across the country.“The Ramadan supplies are delivered to the 36 states, including the FCT yearly and the governors assign a contact person to receive the items which are delivered in trucks on behalf of the governor before distribution to the identified beneficiaries by the state government,” an official of the Foundation who did not want to be named said.

Sources close to the Foundation in Lagos insisted that the FCT Minister did reject the donation to the surprise of the representatives of the Foundation even when it was explained to him that it was for the less privileged.Informed sources at the minister’s office indicated that the letter for the donation came while the minister was having a meeting with his directors and they all corroborated the fact that the donation was an annual gift from Dangote Foundation for the less privileged but he would not listen to any explanation as he insisted the food items be returned.Some residents of the FCT expressed dismay at the action of the minister as they condemned his disposition to the plights of the IDPs who the items were meant for and were actually on the lookout for it having been informed earlier that the foundation would soon put smiles on their faces.

Callers at the FCT Secretariat at Area 11, it was gathered, were said to be very displeased on hearing of the minister’s rejection of the items, which they believed would have made the IDPs in the Abuja camp feel the good side of Ramadan.According to them, the reason behind the minister’s rejection of the food items cannot be justified because those in the IDPs’ camp are hungry and some of them are dying because government could not cater for all their needs.A Dangote Foundation source confirmed that as at the time of filing this report, about 31 states had already taken deliveries of their items and some had started the distribution. It was learnt that 106 trucks of food items are on their way to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital in fulfilment of Dangote’s promise to make this Ramadan fulfilling for the IDPs in the states.The latest donation of food items was coming shortly after the Foundation donated N2 billion for the rehabilitation of the IDPs in various camps in Borno State.

The source said the Dangote Foundation had in the past supported victims of disasters with monetary and food items. Food items were donated to the victims of post 2011 elections violence in some parts of the north, while victims of flood disaster across the country were also helped with various food items and other relief materials.According to him, the Foundation also took its charity abroad when in 2015, donated $1 million to support the government of Nepal to rehabilitate the victims of two devastating earth quakes that ravaged the country that year in quick succession.
The Foundation also donated $500,000 to the government of the Republic of Niger to support victims of meningitis outbreak in the country.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/06/08/minister-rejects-dangotes-ramadan-gifts-for-vulnerable-displaced-persons/

WE ARE NOT NEGOTAITING WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA. ONE NIGERIAN MILITANT GROUP BOASTED

COACH SPTEHEN KESHI IS DEAD

Nigerian football icon Stephen Okechukwu Keshi died suddenly in the early hours of Wednesday in Benin City, Edo state, TheCable understands.
The former international football player and coach had lost his wife of 33 years, Kate, last year after a prolonged battle with cancer.
TheCable confirmed his death from a member of his family as well as one of his close associates. details latter

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA SEEMS TO BE COMING REALLY SOON

Islamic Republic of Biafra seems to be on its way, I wonder if the Islamic Republic of Biafra will not cede  even before the real Bifra Republic just recently the herdsmen unleashed terror in the supposed Biafran Republic State beheaded and injured several. The residents of gbo,Okebunoye and Umunambu villages in Alor community; and its neighbouring Ohokwu village,have deserted their homes for fear of being attacked at night by the armed herdsmen When Daily Sun visited the area, several residential buildings were locked while the police, and other security agencies were patrolling to ensure tight security. Some residents said they have sought refuge in neighbouring communities..

AHBEA AWARD U.S.A CREW DANCING ASONTO AND SKELEWU AS YOMI FASH LANSO ADD ANOTHER YEAR

 Afro Heritage Company, United State of American  the organizer of the famous AHBEA award and the entire crew rejoice and facilitate with one of the Nollywood Brand name as he celebrate another year today. Yomi Fash Lanso is not just a brand name in the Nollywood but one of the Nollywood Finest guy who has no doubt created a class because of its standoutability.. wishing yomi fashlaso a happy birthday and prosperous now and latter in life

NDLEA UNCOVERED TONS AND TONS OF INDIAN HMP IN A LAGOS WARE HOUSE

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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered a warehouse in a residential building in Okoko, Lagos State, filled to the brim with bags of Indian hemp aka cannabis.
The bags weigh a collective total of 8,597.63kg and was discovered in a raid on Friday 3rd June 2016. The number of arrests made over the discovery was not disclosed., check for details latter

ALEX USIFO GRADUATES FROM BABCOCK UNIVERSITY

Alex Usifo Omiagbo, the 'bad guy' of Nollywood, yu all remember him, He is famous for playing the role characters of some of Nollywood's most unforgettable villains, most notably his role in the classic Silent Night, starring Ramsey Nouah and Segun Arinze. His deep voice and commanding on-screen presence made him perfect for these roles.


Featuring in over 50 movies, Alex also gained popularity for his role as the terrifying Chief Odiete in the shortlived TV series "Beyond Our Dreams" which used to air on NTA.
Alex Usifo, asides being a prolific actor is also very passionate about academics. He studied Mass Communication And Philosophy at the University of Lagos before proceeding for a masters degree at Babcock University.
And now, at the ripe age of 63, Mr Alex is now DR Alex as he has successfully bagged a PhD from Babcock University.
The veteran Nollywood actor, on Sunday, June 5, 2016 graduated from Babcock University with a PhD.

Congratulations to Dr Osifo!