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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Dele Sobowale “Every country has the government it deserves.” Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 80). Landing in America in August 1964 to start university education provided by US taxpayers, with American Government scholarship, my heart was filled with gratitude – just as my mind was full of wonder. We entered on Alitalia Airlines through Boston with a Greyhound Bus waiting to take us to Brattleboro, Vermont, for orientation before being sent to various states and universities. I could not believe that this nation was on the same planet as the one I left and that people anywhere could be so generous. Even with Trump turning the White House to a nut house, America will for ever receive my gratitude and my prayers. What else can I offer them? As last year’s US elections were drawing nearer, I was certain Trump would win – despite my preference for Clinton. Perhaps objective to a fault, I had observed from Nigeria, with a sinki...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Evelyn Usman The Nigerian Army yesterday, described as untrue report that it was shielding some of its soldiers that were accused to have allegedly vandalised N63 million cable belonging to a telecommunication firm. This is just as it said that it would not be stampeded with what it described as frivolous claims and demands to release its report on the investigation of the matter to any unauthorised source. Report had it that some soldiers in a van with the inscription OP MESSA allegedly accompanied some hoodlums to Peace Global Satellite Communications Limited, a telecommunication firm in the Ojodu Berger area of the state, last year. . The hoodlums were said to have pulled the cables from an underground duct and loaded them in a vehicle , with the soldiers protecting them. They (soldiers) were alleged to have also beaten up a member of staff of the company who challenged the hoodlums. Assistant Director, Army Public Relations , at the 9 Brigade, Ikeja, M...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Chigoziri Onuoha O hordua community in Edo State  has cried out to the state government over the abandonment and the dilapidating infrastructure at the only secondary school serving the community and others around it. Chairman of Education Committee of the Association of Ohordua Sons and Daughters, Prince Valentine Oribhabor, who spoke on the failed facilities at the school,  said the school has virtually turned into a forest as trees have taken over the school compound and classrooms. Oribhabor said that the school, Ohordua Mixed Secondary School, Okhunirie-Eguare, Ohordua, in Esan South East Local Government Area of the state, was founded in 1979 through communal efforts to address the educational need of the people, but later handed over to the government. He stated that trouble started for the school during a kingship tussle which lasted until 2012 during which many children of secondary school age ran for safety and since 2014, the place has ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Emma Amaize P ORT HARCOURT —A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has issued Form 48, which is a notice of disobedience of court order, against the Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of an international marine and energy services company, Topaz Energy and Marine, Mr Rene Kofod-Olsenfor and four other officials, for allegedly disregarding its order not to move three ocean-going vessels, Seema , Amani and Caspian Breeze , out of Nigerian waters without the court’s express permission. The other affected officials are Rume Zeuthen , William Watt and the regional director, Tom Knudsen. Justice I. Watila had earlier in 2016, ordered the arrest of the three ocean-going   vessels over dispute between Topaz Energy and Marine and its local partner for breach of contract in terms guiding their shareholders’ agreement and their subsequent release was based on the understanding that they remain within the jurisdiction of the court. The order on th...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Kelechukwu Nnochiri A BUJA —The Federal Government has asked the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to ignore Mohammed Abacha’s claim of ownership to disputed Oil Prospecting License, OPL, 245, which is regarded as one of the richest oil blocs in Africa. The government,  via a court process filed by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, and sighted by Vanguard , is asking the court to dismiss or strike out Suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/201/2017, wherein Abacha is claiming ownership of Malabu Oil & Gas Limited. Those government equally urged the court to ignore their joint claim with Mohammed Abacha were Oyewole Fashawe and Pecos Energy Limited, saying their claims of membership/ownership of Malabu Oil & Gas Limited “is not yet ascertained and same is still the subject of adjudication in suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/206/2017, between Malabu Oil & Gas Limited & 2 Ors V. Mr. Kweku Amafagha & 9 Ors, whic...