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A security guard with the United Bank for Africa, Mohammed Ogbanago, who returned $10,000 (about N2.8m) misplaced by a customer, has said he was ridiculed for the action. He explained that he returned the money to show that all Nigerians were not corrupt and to set a good example for Nigerian youths. T he 29-year-old, a  Kogi State indigene who earns N30,000 (about $100) per month, h ad on April 7, 2016, found the $10,000 close to the main gate of the Oba Akran branch of the UBA, where he worked as a security guard. The money was said to have fallen from an $84,500 withdrawn by a bank customer, the  security guard  found  it  and  sent it  to the bank’s operations manager, who then handed it over to the customer when he revisited the bank. Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Tony Elumelu, hosted Ogbanago at the bank’s corporate headquarters on the Lagos Island.  He was reportedly applauded by the bank’s leadership for the ...

The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) have launched fresh attacks on major oil and gas installations in Delta region. Chevron, NPDC and NNPC facilities were reportedly blown up by one strike team. The attacks took place on Friday, Saturday night and early Sunday morning in Delta state, leaving at least five facilities incapacitated, according to the militants. The NDA as usual reported about their new attacks on the oil and gas producing facilities belonging to Chevron, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on twitter. See their tweets below: At 9:15pm on Friday the @NDAvengers blow up Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Crude Oil Trunk Line to Warri Refinery. — Niger Delta Avengers (@NDAvengers) July 2, 2016 At 11:26pm on Saturday @NDAvengers blow up two NPDC major crude trunk lines close to Batan flowstation in Delta state. — Niger Delta Avengers (@NDAvengers) Ju...

Nigeria’s secret police, Department of State Services (DSS) says it has arrested some suspected Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) militants. According to the secret service, one Selky Torughedi, a suspected member of NDA and associate of Tompolo, was arrested for planning to assassinate a serving military officer in Kaduna state. “In a bid to stem the activities of vandals in the Niger Delta, this service effected the arrest of Selky Kile Torughedi, on 17th June, 2016, in Calabar, Cross River state,” the DSS said in the statement issued by Tony Opuiyo. “Torughedi is an ex-militant and suspected member of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), and was arrested for planning to assassinate one MB Yahaya, a serving military officer. “Torughedi, who is a close associate of Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo), had already conducted surveillance at the residence of Yahaya in Kaduna, preparatory to his plot when he was intercepted. He is also fingered as a sponsor of pipeline vandalism in some ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to use the country’s resources judiciously to develop the nation and rebuild the volatile Niger Delta region, based on the policies initiated by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. Buhari spoke on Thursday when a delegation of Ni­ger Delta Dialogue and Contact Group, led by His Royal Highness, King Alfred Di­ette-Spiff, the Amanyanabo of Twon Brass, Bayelsa State, visited him at the Presiden­tial Villa, Abuja. The President therefore solicited the patience and understanding of Nigerians to achieve the goal. His words: “We intend to rebuild this country so that our children and grandchildren will have a good place they can call their own. A lot of damage has been done, so I want you to tell the people to be patient. “When you get together with other leaders, please pacify the people. We will utilise the resources of Nigeria with integrity and rebuild the country”. The President said the gazette on the Niger Delta Amnesty Programm...

Sierra Leone Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria Rtd. Major General Nelson Williams has been kidnapped in Nigeria. According to Embassy sources in Nigeria, He was kidnapped yesterday. “He left the Sierra Leone mission in Abuja and went to attend a military graduation ceremony in Kaduna. At 4am this morning, the embassy accountant received a strange phone call. It was the kidnappers. They placed Nelson-Williams on the line and after he identified himself to the accountant, the Kidnappers came back on the line and informed he was in their custody and they had kidnapped him and wanted a ransom demand of around 44 million Naira (about $150,000).”, the Embassy sources said. The kidnappers have now called the Embassy twice this morning threatening unsavory outcome if their ransom demand is not met. According to sources, one of the calls had Nelson Williams sounding very low and frightened. The whereabouts of his driver (and those he was supposed to be with on the said trip), i...

A provincial governor in Cameroon has said that the suicide attack by the Boko Haram insurgents killed 11 people while many others sustained different wounds. The governor warned civilians not to break special security measures meant at preventing such attacks. A security source said the suspected insurgent blew himself up in the town of Djakana near the Nigerian border overnight. He said: “Seven people were killed immediately, including the bomber.” The source added that most of the victims were members of a local vigilante group charged with hunting down Boko Haram members. “They were gathered in a video room when the attacker entered and triggered his explosives,” he added. Midjiyawa Bakari, the governor of the region, told reporters that 11 people had died and four had been wounded. He stated that “the imprudence of the youths running the video club,” “While such activities are forbidden, they take risks in showing films at night in the bush… “We are asking on the ...