Saturday, 16 May 2015

OPC, Ex-militants Set To Lose Contracts says president GMB

An investigation by Vanguard recently, indicates that there are plans to dismiss the security groups in charge of oil pipelines and waterways.

The man behind the process was a Director in the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign
Organisation. He is in charge of liaising with experts in the sector and other people to work out the template for the new surveillance policy which will see the government revert back to the use of security agencies for the pipelines and waterways security. agencies form.

The incoming administration reportedly has plans to adequately fund the various security agencies thereby stopping the contract with some former Niger-Delta militants or groups like the Odua People’s Congress (OPC) in the South-west region. The contracts to awarded to these groups
reportedly runs into billions.

During his meeting with Rivers State chieftains of the aAPC, Buhari had on Wednesday, said his government won’t tolerate“an army within the army or a police within the police”in Nigeria.

Meanwhile, a member of the Board of Trustees of APC, Chief Sam Nkire said that Buhari would have to do away with the contracts if they were not properly awarded.

According to Nkire, the outgoing government of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, had a lot of underhand deals with some groups.

“Well, once a government has been swept away, it ceases to exist. The new government takes charge and whatever it decides to do, becomes the law. If the government or presidency of Buhari thinks those contracts were not properly given out or were not given to qualified people, of course, the government will
cancel those contracts.

“And from what I know of the incoming president, he will not waste a day to cancel those contracts because these are the reasons why Nigerians rejected the PDP government. Because, they did things that should not be done. They did things without recourse to the law.

“They did things with impunity and knowing Buhari as a man who abhors impunity; a man we can say is one of the incorruptible persons, I will be surprised if he does not revoke contracts that were wrongly awarded if he sees them”,Nkire said.

Buhari recently met with Chadian President, Idriss Deby, who was in the country to discuss the joint fight againstterrorist group, Boko Haram.

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Friday, 15 May 2015

3 children Drowned In A Well In Bauchi

What can be regarded as an unfortunate incident occurred on Tuesday, May 12, in Bauchi when the dead bodies of three kids were recovered in a well. In a report published by Leadership, it was gathered that one Alkassim Abdullahi, is the father of the three children who got drowned in a well at Tudun Salmanu area of Bauchi metropolis.

Speaking with newsmen, the state’s police command spokesman, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Haruna Muhammed, said the bodies of Abdullahi’s children, aged between two and three years, were discovered in a well dug in an uncompleted building in the neighbourhood.

DSP Muhammed said the remains of the children were deposited in the mortuary of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) in Bauchi for post-mortem examination to be conducted on them.

“On May 12, 2015, at about 13:00hrs,one Abdallah Alkassim, male and 3 years, Huzaifa Alkassim male and 2 years, and Hauwa Alkassim female and 2 years, all children of one Alkassim Abdullahi, male, of behind Danga security office, Tudun Salmanu, Bauchi, got drowned in a well inside an uncompleted building at the neighbourhood.

“Scene was visited by police detectives attached to Tafawa Balewa Housing Estate Division and victims rushed to ATBU Teaching Hospital, Bauchi and were all certified dead by a medical doctor,” the force spokesman said.

Meanwhile, a policeman in Tura, a suburb of Bauchi state, has shot and killed his lover over a rumoured relationship she was having with his best friend.

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Alabi Pasuma said patoranking killed their songs

Wind of cross-genre collaboration has continued to blow in the camp of fuji musician, Wasiu Alabi – Pasuma Wonder – who is featuring award-winning reggae artiste, Patoranking, in his new single titled Our Lagos.

Pasuma, who was one of the artistes that rocked the campaigns for the recent elections, has been engaging hip hop acts in recent times.

Fans will be eager to know how Our Lagos unfolds and what the presence of wave-making Patoranking will add to the suspense.

Said Pasuma, ‘Music is a universal language and my team works very hard to make sure we put out the best we can. Working with Patoranking was great. He is a great kid and he actually killed the song. We would drop a couple more singles before we finally drop the album.”

Our Lagos was produced by Puffy Tee and mixed/mastered by Sheyman.
Pasuma’s promoters also noted that in the last six months, he had consistently dropped new pop singles in a quest to drop a full pop album before the year runs out.

“He currently has songs like Abo, Omo Olope, O ti Clear, Ife, featuring Tiwa Savage, and Ogede ti pon,” they added

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Auto Draft

Wolfgang Hans Langlois put safrole oil in wine bottles hidden in household items he shipped from Germany to Kauai, Honolulu last year. Customs agents intercepted the shipment and found the oil, which is legal but requires special permission to import.

Langlois pleaded guilty to smuggling but maintains the oil was not for ecstasy but for a legal substance he wanted to make for his wife, who has cancer

The shipment caught the attention of agents because Langlois’ name was on a watch list for people suspected of smuggling ecstasy to Hawaii from South America in vitamin and face cream jars in 2008, but Langlois was never charged in that case.

In August 2014, when agents in Los Angeles intercepted the shipment from Germany, they discovered 10 wine bottles containing an “unknown yellow liquid stored inside of a wooden nightstand in a suspicious manner,” according to an affidavit by a Homeland Security Investigations special agent.

Tests revealed the liquid was safrole oil, used to manufacture MDMA, also known ecstasy or molly.

Defense attorney William Harrison said Thursday his client is a chemist and was not trying to make ecstasy. Instead, Langlois wanted to use the oil to experiment with creating a legal, non-psychedelic, naturopathic medication to help his wife cope with breast cancer, Harrison said.

“They’re both very into organic practices … they grow their own food,” Harrison said.

The oil was removed from the shipment and replaced with fake oil. Agents obtained a warrant to use a tracking device and then allowed the shipment to continue to Lihue, Kauai, the affidavit said.

On Sept. 19, Langlois arrived at a pier to pick up the shipment, and agents followed him as he drove home. “Agents conducting surveillance noticed that the defendant was taking actions that appeared to be counter-surveillance techniques, such as stopping on the side of the main road without any apparent reason and by making turns while increasing and decreasing his speed,”
Eventually, the defendant proceeded to his residence.”

During a search of Langlois’ property, agents found what appeared to be a chemical laboratory, the affidavit said. The 7,500 milliliters of oil found could have produced 10,000 to 70,000 ecstasy pills, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Tony Roberts.

Langlois pleaded guilty in January. In his
plea agreement, he admitted he flew from Hawaii to Germany, where he obtained the oil and intended to import it to the United States without telling customs
officials.

He apologized in court, saying he’s learned a lesson.

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