Norway Regrets Selling Warships To Ex-Niger Delta Militant, Tompolo

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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.

Check out the number of private jets at Las Vegas airport due to MayPac

As the world focused on one of the most important boxing matches in history, the rich and famous personally went to view it and have an expensive first hand experience. Pictured above are the private Jets spotted in an airport in Las Vegas. Photo Credit: Sports Reporter/Levan Reid.

Pics: 50cents celebrates as he wins his bet on the May vs Pac fight

Rapper 50 Cent bet $1.6million on Floyd Mayweather to beat Manny Pacquiao in Sunday's fight. He won the bet and took to Instagram to celebrate his win. He calls it 'rent money' for tonight. Lol. See more photos he shared from his Vega trip after the cut...

Mike Tyson launches attack on Mayweather for comparing himself to Muhammad Ali

Some days to his epic fight with Manny Pacquaio, Floyd Mayweather, who has never lost a fight in a all of his 47 professional fights, compared himself to boxing legend, Muhammed Ali, saying he's a better fight than Ali.

No disrespect to Muhammad Ali, but he did it in one division. I just look at Ali's career when he fought Leon Spinks and lost to a fighter with seven fights. There were some other fights he lost and he's still known as The Greatest because that's what he put out there. It is what it is." Mayweather said.

Man loses wife, three children, two others to fire

Six people died when a storey building in which they were living caught fire in Jos, Plateau State in the early hours of Saturday.The fire was said to have started around 2 am immediately after electricity was restored from the public electric supply.The victims are 26-year old Habiba Ahmed, her three children, Dalhatu, aged 6, Maryam 4 and one-year-old Fawaz. Others are Habiba’s sister, Rukayat 12 and maid, named Maryam aged 13.There was suspicion that the victims died of suffocation as they could not escape from the raging inferno.

PDP does not respect democracy – Araraume

Former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Imo State, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume, has described the PDP as encouraging a culture of impunity, adding that the party does not respect democracy.He said this on Saturday while addressing members of his campaign organisation, Destiny Organisation, in Owerri.He said, “PDP is gone; the culture of impunity is gone. PDP does not respect democracy and that is what we should be against; the era of imposing candidates on the people is gone.”Araraume described the state Governor, Rochas Okorocha, as the only true leader of the All Progressives Congress in the South-East by virtue of being the only governor of the party in

Man trekking from Adamawa to Abuja to celebrate Buhari meets Emir of Bauchi (PHOTOS)

43 year old Mallam Abubakar Umar (pictured left) who started trekking from Yola, Adamawa state on April 26 to Abuja where he hopes to meet with the president-elect, Gen Buhari, had a brief stop over at the palace of the Emir of Bauchi, Rilwanu Suleimanu Adamu, yesterday May 2nd. Umar was received by the Emir and some APC members in the state.According to Umar, he has in his possession 300 letters from people from the north appealing to the president-elect to do everything within his power to end the activities of Boko Haram. After his brief stop over, he continued his journey to Abuja. More photos below...

See photo of the husband of nanny who kidnapped Orekoya boys

Above is Mr Waheed, the husband of the evil nanny and the mastermind of the plot to kidnap the Orekoya kids that the police rescued last month! Efforts are still on to arrest him and Akeem his brother. The police say they will appreciate and indeed reward any credible information that will facilitate his arrest! 

Waheed and Akeem Kareem, said to be in their early 30s, are known in their area to lead extravagant lives, owning choice cars and apartment. People who know them say once their neighbors start questioning the source of their wealth, they get uncomfortable and immediately relocate.

CLASSLESS: Beyonce Knowles & Jay Z at the welterweight unification championship bout

                                                                                                          

 Beyonce Knowles and Jay Z attend the welterweight unification championship bout on May 2, 2015 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This picture is proof that MONEY CANNOT BUY CLASS.

Hundreds of STRANGERS turn out for funeral of the mystery child who was found dead on railway track

                                                                   
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of an unidentified baby boy whose body was found wrapped in a blanket on an Edinburgh railway track almost two years ago. Local residents and community leaders gathered at Seafield Crematorium, Edinburgh, this morning following an appeal by police, who feared that the no one would attend the service after their investigation had failed to identify the baby's family. The congregation of strangers bowed their heads in respect as the tiny white coffin was carried through the cemetery, accompanied by the moving sound of a single piper playing Amazing Grace. Dozens wept as the minister delivered a moving sermon about the infant, simply named in his death notice as 'Little Baby Boy', before laying balloons, flowers and soft animals on the site where he was finally laid to rest. 

Ijaw Youths, OPC Clash In Arepo Over Pipeline, Pregnant Woman, Many Killed

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Members of the Oodua People’s Congress and some suspected pipeline vandals have clashed in Arepo, in the Obafemi Owode area of Ogun State.

It was gathered that the Wednesday clash caused pandemonium, which led to the killing of a pregnant woman, Mrs. Damilola Fajana, and another pedestrian. It was learnt that a suspected vandal had earlier been killed on Tuesday by some OPC members.

Despite Death Sentence, 19 Nigerians Attempt Shipping Drugs To Asia – NDLEA

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has said it saved 20 people from the death penalty in Asia by preventing them from smuggling drugs out of Nigeria.

In a statement Thursday, the agency said since January 2014, 19 Nigerians and a Ghanaian have been arrested in Nigerian airports attempting to smuggle 106,914 kilogrammes of narcotics.

“Sixteen of the suspects were apprehended at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos while four others including a Ghanaian were caught at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu,” said Ahmadu Giade, NDLEA’s Chairman.

Madness! Police Corporal Kills Inspector, Alleged Girlfriend & Self Over Love

See the people they put in the police force oo. Someone that has no respect for his life, how can he have respect for other people’s lives?

An argument between a police corporal and his senior colleague, an inspector, over who actually owns a pretty female recharge card seller, ended in tragedy when the corporal corked his riffle, killed the card seller and the inspector, before killing himself.

The incident occurred yesterday evening in the Karu Town, near the CBN Junction, when the corporal, who claimed he was interested in the recharge card seller, simply known as Chidinma, saw the inspector and the recharge seller sitting together over some bottles of soft drinks.

Fuel scarcity: Marketers insist strike continues, denies receiving any money from govt

Members of the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association DAPPMA say the strike action they are currently embarking on will continue despite claims by the Federal Government that N156bn was released yesterday to offset some debts owed them and end the persisting fuel scarcity.

In an interview with Premium Times, the Executive Secretary of DAPPMA, Odufemi Adewole said that non of their members in the Major Oil Marketers Association (MOMAN), have received the monies supposedly released yesterday and that until the money hits the accounts of all its members, they will not call off the strike.

Buhari's Cabinet: Zoning of SGF to SE Splits Igbos Into Three Bitter Camps

 

Nigeria - There is bitter rivalry among All Progressives Congress, APC members who are of Igbo originsover who becomes the next secretary to the government of the federation, SGF, as the fight for the post has split them into three bitterly divided camps, Nigerian Newswatch says.

Under Nigeria’s complex zoning arrangement, the SGF has been zoned to the Igbo-speaking southeast geo-political zone and the race has begun to find a suitable candidate to fill the spot.

The caucus reportedly met again at the Imo State governor’s lodge in Abuja at the instance of Governor Rochas Okorocha but the meeting ended in a stalemate.