It’s wait and see in Delta

WARRI—WHAT Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State did in 2007, when he assumed office was to conscript ex-militant leaders and their agreed represen-tatives into a strategic security group: the Delta Waterways Security Committee, DWSC. Alongside other professionals, they were saddled with the responsibility of ensuring safety on the waterways of the state.

Ex-militant leader and founder of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, endorsed some of his lieutenants as members of his group.

Other ex-militant leaders in the state, including Ezekiel Akpasubowei and Aroni Oputu of Deadly Underdogs, were later drafted in to buoy up the group.

Some of the ex-militant leaders, who thought the committee was another money-spinning one, were frustrated at what they saw. They believe the governor played a fast one on them by gathering them into a group and abandoning them to their fate.

Top from left: Okowa, Gbagi, Orubebe, and Omo-Agege, Olejeme, Ochei, Obuh and Elumelu

However, many thought that all was well between Uduaghan and Tompolo, giving the camaraderie they show outside, particularly with the latest emergence of his younger brother, Mr. George Ekpemupolo, as two-time chairman of Warri South-West Local Government Area.

However, the Executive Secretary of Tompolo Foundation and top player in the Tompolo camp, Mr. Paul Bebenimibo, told Niger Delta Voice that what exists between the two men was a cat and mouse relationship.

‘Count Tompolo out of Warri S’West polls’

First, there is the chairmanship matter that has pitched Tompolo against human rights activist and lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, who is representing Mr. Weyimi Omadeli, alias Bobby, the chairmanship candidate that was swapped at the 11th

No space in Baylesa

YENAGOA— ONCE upon a time in Bayelsa State, ex-militants, especially their leaders, were held in awe.

They were quartered in the Creek Haven (read Government House) annex, fondly referred to as Super Lodge and they received monthly allowance from the state government.

This was aside the Federal Government amnesty stipends.

They wielded influence in the corridors of power in the state and, to a large extent, called the shots in the politics of their respective local government areas in the hinterland where they once held sway.

Some of them even moved with police escorts with siren- blaring pilot vehicles to the consternation of other road users.

It was, therefore, not surprising seeing the ex- militants rallying support for ex-governor, Timipre Sylva, during his trying moment with the leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Presidency in his quest to secure the party ticket for second term.

However, their influence in the politics of the state and the councils have been whittled down by the present administration, which wasted no time in evicting them from the government lodge.

They currently have no role to play in the politics of the state and their local government areas where the governor’s men are effectively in charge of affairs.

Though some ex-agitators, led by former leader of the defunct MEND, Ebikabowei Victor-Ben, alias Boyloaf, were appointed by the state government into a special task force, State Centre for Youth Development, to curb criminality in the creeks of the state, security has not improved on the waterways.

Also on the board as Secretary is Mr. Egba Claudius Diekemi. Others are Kakas Amgbare (Sabgama council), Inemo Angalapele (Kolokumo/Opokuma council), Joseph Dienduomo (Ekeremor council), Pastor Reuben Wilson (Southern Ijaw council), Dini Atoni (Ogbia council), Mangite Asari (Nembe) and Miss Emmanuela Victor (Brass).

Also in the board are Jackson, Toikuma Toboula-yefa ThankGod, Omangima Harry, Alfreda Olungwe, Gift Bokiri, Tina Bailbond and Ebiasuode Timipre.

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UK to return £6.8m of Ibori loot to Nigeria

London –  The UK government is to return  an additional 6.8 million pounds of the  confiscated loot of former Delta Governor, James Ibori, to Nigeria.

Mr Rupert Broad, UK Metropolitan Police Senior Investigator, disclosed this in London on Tuesday at a meeting on “Supporting Policing in Nigeria: What Role for Police in the Nigerian Diaspora” held in the House of Commons.

While speaking  on UK and Nigeria’s anti-corruption partnership, Broad said “out of the eight million pounds  confiscated from Ibori, 1.2 million pounds had so far been retuned to Nigeria, while the rest was waiting for redistribution as to when it would be sent back to Nigeria.”
He also said that an additional 80 million pounds had been temporarily confiscated from Ibori and his associates, including Mr Patrice Gohil, one of his lawyers.

“Approximately, 80 million pounds is temporarily frozen and a confiscation hearing has been fixed for April 2015, where the judge will determine how much was stolen, after which it would be returned to Nigeria.”

The  British Southcrown  Court in April 2012  sentenced  Ibori  to 13 years jail term for fraud and money laundering.

Broad, who attributed the success of the Ibori case to partnership with the nation’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), said “the case signified Nigeria’s commitment to the fight corruption.

“In the light of the Ibori case, Nigeria has done a fantastic job in tackling corruption.

“Corruption does not go away easily,  addressing it requires continuous process and the UK
Metropolitan Police  will continue to collaborate with Nigerian authorities on cross border international investigation.”

Similarly, Mr Nsikan Etuk, the Director of the UK Nigeria Police Forum, said that the diaspora was a powerful tool for the reformation of the nation’s police force.

Etuk, who spoke on “Supporting Policing in Nigeria”, expressed the commitment of the Forum incollaborating with government in tackling challenges impeding efficiency in policing in the country.

He said that the Forum, whose membership included serving and retired police personnel, was established following challenges facing  the Nigerian community in the UK.

In the same vein, Amb. Kunle  Bamgbose, the Nigerian Deputy High Commissioner to the UK, said the nation’s police officers were among the brightest in Africa, adding that they were only impeded  by operational challenges.

He said “inadequate equipment such as communication gadgets, the lack of efficient forensic laboratories  and other logistic problems are some of the challenges facing the police force.”

Bamgbose, however, said “it is difficult to impose UK policing culture in Nigeria because the environments are different.”

According to him, partnership in training and capacity building of officers will be an ideal area of collaboration.

The meeting, which had participants from the Nigerian community, was chaired by Mrs Meg Hillier, the Chair of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Nigeria. (NAN)

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Actress Uche Nnanna shares sexy photos from Spain

The actress relocated to Spain with her hubby Richard Maduka after their April 2014 Wedding..
She shared some photos from their vacation...

She is sure enjoying married life..







     

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Sexy! Sarah Ofili rocks hot yellow Bikini (Photos)

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Top Six Secrets Of Preventing Underarm Sweating

There is only one place where heavy sweating is acceptable. And this place is a gym. But our organism can often bring to us some unpredictable situations. The weather in Nigeria can do the same. So how not to be ashamed with underarm sweating?

1. Use antiperspirant daily
Make it your habit. There is nothing complicated in using it before leaving the house. What is the difference between antiperspirant and deodorant? The second one is just covers the odour. And antiperspirants contains some ingredients that reduce sweating.

2. Say ‘No’ to synthetic clothes
Synthetic fabrics, such as nylon, rayon and polyester can easily trap heat and make your body to sweat more. Clothing made of natural fabrics, such as cotton, wool, hemp, silk or linen, often have a looser weave than synthetics. So you should better pick up some clothes that can breathe. Even some man-made fabrics can be good: bamboo, lyocell and modal. Also you can choose colours of your outfits more wisely: if you know that you sweat a lot, try to avoid white clothes. Shoes should be ‘breathable’ as well.

3. Less stress
Sometimes the best way to reduce sweating is to try to be calm and relax. You can try some yoga or meditations. And some easy physical can also be useful.

4. Less coffee – more profit
Lot of office workers can’t imagine their daily routine without a cup of hot coffee. But a bad thing is that coffee will raise your internal temperature and signal to your body start producing sweat. Drink more water to reduce this effect.

5. Less spicy food
Spices can activate the sweating process as well as coffee. When you eat spicy food, brain sends signals to your sweat glands that organism needs to be cooled off. Junk food is also responsible for your sweating. It contains too much salt. So your body tries to get rid of it with sweating.

6. Probably you need to visit a doctor
If nothing helps and you feel that you are sweating more than usual you can always try to visit a doctor. It will help you to discover the reason of this stinky trouble.

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You wont Believe this, See what she did to attract men

Girls do whatever to get the right men. but what do you think of this. Just a photo fun post.

Enjoy your day.

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All You Need To Know About iPhone 6

The iPhone 6 was released yesterday, September 9. It has a bigger screen, more powerful processor and plenty more.

Apple has unveiled the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. A pair of handsets, one with a bigger screen to rival the monster Android handsets now on sale.

Read all you need to know about the new iPhone below:

iPhone 6 release date: The phones will be going on sale on September 19, and will be available for pre-order on September 12.

iPhone 6 price: The iPhone 6 will be available in gold, silver and space grey, with prices starting at $299 (N49,000) for a 16GB model, running up to $399 (N65,000) for 128GB.

Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus comes in the same colours, costing $299 (N49,000) for the 16GB model, $399 (N65,000) for 64GB and $499 (N81,100) for 128GB.


iPhone 6 display: The screen on the iPhone 6 is 4.7 inches in size, which is significantly bigger than the iPhone 5S’s. It’s 1334 x 750 resolution, which is basically equivalent to a 720p Android phone. Then there
is the iPhone 6 Plus, which uses an even bigger Full HD, 1080p, 5.5-inch screen.




iPhone 6 battery: One of the things you asked for most with the iPhone 6 was an improved battery life.
 Apple has bumped things up quite a bit here. You can see the headline stats below:

   

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How Your Technology Is Manipulating You (CLICK)

In his new best seller, A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention, New York Times journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Matt Richtel explores the neuroscience of our obsession with our phones in the context of a deadly car wreck caused by a texting driver. Science of Us caught up with Richtel about the dark side of technology, its surprising parallels with food, and how we’re acting just like smokers — even if we’ve never touched a cigarette.

What first got you interested in exploring the dark side of our culture’s obsession with technology?
In Silicon Valley, the herd is going one direction very fast, kicking up clouds of dust. It was a simple journalistic impulse to say: Why are we going that direction so quickly? Then I also saw my own behavior: watching the certainly magnetic, if not magical allure of my device. I thought something’s going on here, and as I was saying it, scientists were beginning to ask the same question. So it was a pretty good holy trinity journalistically of an almost overwhelmingly conventional wisdom, science questioning it, and a gut instinct that my own behavior was changing profoundly.

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You write of a powerful clash between technology and the human brain. What’s the root of the conflict? Are we just not hard-wired to keep up with all the information technology throws at us?
We’re creating stuff that is so powerful as to almost be supernatural. The pace of innovation is practically light speed and the pace of evolution is snail speed. We don’t change at the pace technology changes just as we have not changed at the pace that food has industrialized, so we don’t metabolize junk food any better than we did 50 years ago. We’ve just learned we have to be careful with it. Similarly we have to learn to adapt to technology in a world that is changing way, way faster than we can evolve.

Drawing on that analogy between the industrialization of food and the emergence of our omnipresent mobile devices, what lesson can we draw?
Things that have enormous power to serve us can also have enormous power to take advantage of us. It’s almost the way that when you love someone so fiercely, it can manipulate you in ways that you either don’t see or don’t want to see. It can steer you against your own interest in invisible ways or in ways you just don’t want to acknowledge. One of the lures of writing about this is the disconnect between what we say we’re going to do with our phones in the car and what we actually do.

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So, 96 percent of people say they shouldn’t text and drive, and 30 percent do. I can only think of one other thing that a gap so profound exists — the gap between what smokers say they should do and what they actually do. There’s a reason smokers say one thing and do something else — they’re addicted, sometimes to the point of killing themselves. I think if you watch your own behavior, often you are going to your device whether inside the car or out of it, to get a little boost of dopamine in the same way that maybe smokers get a little boost of nicotine. What if some part of our interaction with our devices is not need, urgency, or even necessarily connection, but rather a kind of neurochemical fix?

If that’s the case, how deeply and permanently has technology affected our neurochemistry?
If I spend two or three days without my device, I can live without it and I kind of don’t want to go back. That says to me that while it might have addictive properties and be extremely habit-forming, it is possible for a lot of us to break that with some effort. But it’s harder for young people because the part of the brain involved in making good decisions — the prefrontal cortex — is not yet developed.

Even for those of us with mature brains, it can feel impossible to disconnect; the temptation to check our phones is too strong. So what do we do?
It sounds so silly, but the very first thing is to make a concerted effort to disconnect on a regular basis for a period of time. Because research shows, when you have a lot of information coming at you and you’re processing a lot of it, you’re diminishing your ability to make a decision. When you’re in the car texting or even talking on the phone, you compromise your ability to make decisions in both of those contexts. Get enough space to let your brain nap. That’s critical.

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The second thing is, you deplete your brain over course of the day through things large and small; even choosing what to wear begins to deplete executive function. If every free second, you’re checking your device, you’re stealing resources from decision-making you may need later. You don’t want to bleed your brain to death tweet by tweet.

Did writing the book change your own relationship to your phone?
The biggest thing, and it’s changing by the day as I watch myself embody the very things the scientists warned me about, is that I turn it off when my kids are around. For two reasons: If it’s in my pocket, I feel a yearning to check it, even if I’m not expecting it. It’s like going outside to get a little fix. The other reason is I know I’m setting a very clear example for my kids.

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Was it like going through withdrawal to start to “unplug”?
I’m intensifying my efforts to turn it off on the weekends. That’s hard, because I get an itch now and again. I play a lot of tennis, and someone’s going to text me since there’s no other way to communicate — no landlines anymore. Once you’re drinking the beer, why not have a cigarette? All of sudden I’m checking my email, my Amazon numbers. I think this is a very, very powerful device in the way it plays to primitive social wiring and our deepest reward systems, and we need to catch up to that understanding or it has a chance to enslave us rather than become the most powerful tool we’ve ever had technologically.

On that note, what is the biggest takeaway readers should draw from your work?
That your relationship with your device is not what it seems. You should scrutinize it so you can own that little monkey and it doesn’t own you.

his interview has been lightly edited. Read More at HuffPost

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Unbelievable!! Soldiers Reportedly Shoot Themselves To Avoid Fighting Boko Haram

A lot of soldiers are not as brave as we thought they are when it comes to fighting the deadly Boko Haram sect.

It has been disclosed that some soldiers and officers are inventing pranks to avoid deployment to the battlefield.

It was reported that about 7 soldiers allegedly opened fire on different parts of their bodies and later claimed that Boko Haram terrorists shot them, but when medical examination was carried out on them, it was discovered that the shots were self-inflicted.

An inquiry has been set to investigate why these soldiers should carry out this type of act and if they are found guilty, they would be punished severely.

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Oh dear! See how Tiwa Savage expose Her Body on stage

What do you think of the outfit tiwa wore on stage in the UK? Is it right for a married woman.. See more photos below.



 

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See Photos: Flavour Tattoos Bible Psalm 91 On His Arm

Nigerian singer Flavour has added another tattoo to his collection and this time it’s a verse from Bible.

The singer took to his Instagram page to share with fans his new body art. Now his right arm is covered with the Bible verse Psalm 91.

“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty,” it says.

Apart from this tattoo, the ‘Ada Ada’ singer has also have an elaborate tattoo covering a huge portion of his back, his arms and chest as well.

Check out photos of Flavour’s tattoos below:

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Patients in Zimbabwe suffer as about 300 junior doctors stay away from work demanding a salary rise from $283 to $1,200 a month

Patients have been waiting in long queues while others were being turned away at state hospitals in Zimbabwe, as hundreds of doctors staged a strike to press for higher pay.
About 300 junior doctors went on strike at the lapse of a two-week ultimatum for the government to address their demands for a pay rise of nearly 400 percent.

“The nationwide strike has attracted an overwhelming response from all government hospitals over 300 doctors withdrawing their services until the employer meets their demands,” Farai Makoni, president of the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association, told the AFP news agency.

“What the doctors are asking for is not anything out of this world.”
Makoni said the junior doctors wanted their monthly salaries increased from $283 to $1,200, their housing and transport allowances raised and were also seeking a risk allowance.
“These grievances have been there for some time and the strike shall be protracted if the employer continues to pay a blind eye to the plight of doctors.”

A few senior doctors were working at major government hospitals in the capital, with patients having a long wait in the outpatients’ departments.

At Harare Hospital, one of the country’s largest health institutions, which caters mainly for the urban poor, doctors were attending to emergencies only while turning away non-critical patients.
The health ministry said in a statement it was concerned that the doctors went on strike “without exhausting the existing mechanisms for dialogue”.

“The government remains committed to improving the working conditions of all its workers within the provisions of the available fiscal space,” it said.

Zimbabwe government hospitals suffer perennial staff shortages as well as a lack of equipment and essential drugs.

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