BREAKING: EVANGS THE BILLIONAIRE KIDNAPPER NABBED

POLICE ARREST ARMY CORPORAL COLLABORATOR OF BILLIONAIRE KIDNAPPER EVANS

Nigerian police operatives have arrested a Lance Corporal with the Army for being an alleged accomplice to suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeje George Onwuamadike, alias Evans. The soldier identified as Victor Chukwunonso with force number 09/NA/64/6317 was apprehended at the weekend in Lagos after Evans named him and some prominent southeast businessmen as his accomplices. The suspect, serving at the Army Band Corps, Abati Barracks in Surulere, was arrested around 9 pm at Ojo by operatives of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Intelligence Response Team (IRT).

GOVERNOR DICKSON MOVES TO EXPAND BAYELSA ECONOMIC PROFILE

Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has inaugurated a-22 member Bayelsa Business Council (BBC) to formulate policies aimed at attracting local and foreign investors to the state and as well shore up her revenue base.

Members of the council are Chief Ephraim Faloughi (Chairman); Mr Harcourt Aduke – Deputy chairman, Ambassador Godknows Igali – vice chairman public sector, Gesiye Asamowei – Vice Chairman, private sector, Mr Tam Alazigha – secretary, Idikio Warmate as assistant secretary.

Others are Ken Etete, Mrs Ebi Fumudor, Dr Eruani, Prof. Steve Azaiki, Mr Didi Ndiomu, Mr Guy Murray Bruce, Mr Elvis Donkemizuo, Mr Moses Siasia, Mr Joe Penewou, Chief Fumudoh, Chief Timi Alaibe, Mr Denzel Kentebe, Mrs. Funkazi Koroye Crooks, Ms. Patience Abbah, King A.J.K. Turner and Dr Daru Owei.

REPS SEEK ECONOMIC AMNESTY FOR TREASURY LOOTERS

The House of Representatives has initiated a Bill for an Act seeking to grant conditional economic amnesty to treasury looters as a tool for the rapid return of illicit financial flows and other assets, which would be invested in Nigeria to scale up development in the country.

Sponsor of the bill and Member representing Ohaozara/Onicha/Ivo Constituency, Hon. Linus Okorie noted that Nigeria urgently requires a more effective means of securing the return of illicit financial flows to Nigeria to be invested in development.

In a copy of the bill which the sponsor gave to THISDAY in Abakaliki, Okorie noted that the Bill also seeks to address the abuse of the whistle-blowing policy, the issue of tax evasion and losses as well as address the disturbing tendency of different security agencies storming homes, offices and places of economic activity with its attendant human rights concerns in search of suspected loots and hidden assets.

55 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT NIGERIA

1. The River Niger Bridge at Onitsha was constructed between 1964 and 1965 by Dumez- a French construction company and cost £5 million.
2. Patience Jonathan is one of Nigeria’s most-educated First Ladies, with an NCE, a B.Ed, and a PhD from University of Port-Harcourt.
3. The highest peak in Nigeria is located in Taraba and is called Chappal Waddi which means “The Mountain of Death”.
4. There are 196 countries in the world and at least one Igbo person from Nigeria lives in every one of them.
5. The Pidgin word ‘Sabi’ came from ‘Saber’, Portuguese and Spanish for ‘to know’. Both country’s ships traded slaves from the Bight of Benin.
6. Katsina College (now Barewa College in Zaria) has produced 5 Nigerian Presidents/Heads of State since it was founded in 1921 in Katsina.
7. Ojukwu taught Murtala Mohammed and Ben Adekunle at Regular Officers Special Training School, Ghana. Both ‘fought’ their teacher during the civil war
8. At Nigeria’s independence in 1960, there were 41 Secondary Schools in the North and 842 Secondary Schools in the South.