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Confusion has set in over the purported return of £4.2 million Ibori loot to Delta State government. The Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, Tuesday, said the James Ibori loot recently received from the United Kingdom government has been returned to Delta State. Idris said this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Assessment and Status of All Recovered Loots Movable and Immovable Assets from 2002 to 2020. The committee is headed by Adejoro Adeogun. However, Delta State Government, Wednesday, countered the story that it has not received the money, thus raising doubt over the whereabouts…

Despite the assurance given by the Vice Chancellor of Akwa Ibom State University, Prof. Nse Essien to the state House of Assembly that the institution would resume for classes, members of Academic Staff Union of University have doubted the possibility of the classes resumption. Essien, who appeared this Wednesday before the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly Committee on Education, assured that full academic activities would commence on Monday, May 31, 2021. Dr. Ime Okop, the ASUU chapter chairman of the institution, has doubted the possibility of resuming classes on Monday. Speaking in interview with Straightnews on Wednesday, May 26,…

English Premiership League has released prize money for the 2020/2021 season. Manchester City clinched this season’s Premier League title, with weeks to spare. Despite their success this season, it has been revealed their prize money actually went down this year compared to what Liverpool got last year for winning the premier league. According to The Times, City netted £163 million for their efforts this campaign- made up of their £123 million ‘equal share’ payment given to every club in this season’s Premier League -and then a further £40 million for winning the title. Runners-up Manchester United pocketed £38 million, meaning their…

One of the billionaire co-founders of TikTok, Zhang Yiming, has stepped down. Yiming, 38, the Chief Executive Officer of ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok said Thursday, May 20, that he would leave the role because he lacks managerial skills. He added that he preferred “reading and daydreaming” to running the tech giant. According to Bloomberg, he resigns with a net worth of $44.5 billion, making him 31st on a list of the world’s richest people. On Monday, May 24, Zhang announced his resignation in an official letter to his employees. he reiterated that he lacked some skills that’d make him an ideal…

Chief Edwin Clark has advocated a return of the 1963 Constitution abrogated by the military government to Nigeria. The late Major-General Aguiyi Ironsi who took over from civilian administration abrogated the constitution. According to Clark, the constitution allowed different regions in the country to stand and develop on their own space, unlike the present constitution which make states dependent on the central government. Speaking during live interview in Arise News on Tuesday, May 25 monitored in Uyo by Straightnews, he saw the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic enacted by military government as unitary in nature with a lot of…

A bill to discontinue the National Youth Service Corps has reached a second reading in the House of Representatives. Sponsored by the lawmaker representing Andoni-Opobo/Nkoro Federal Constituency of Rivers State Awaji-Inombek Abiante, in the explanatory memorandum of the proposal, the bill listed various reasons why the NYSC should be scrapped. It said the NYSC has led to the “incessant killing of innocent corps members in some parts of the country due to banditry, religious extremism and ethnic violence; incessant kidnapping of innocent corps members across the country.” “Public and private agencies/departments are no longer recruiting able and qualified Nigerian youths,…

President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to ensure that recovered loot from the former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, is not re-stolen. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, had last week stated that the Federal Government recovered over $700 million looted funds, stated the return of £4.2 million linked to James Ibori, and the plan to repatriate more than £80 million of Ibori’s loot. Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project asked Buhari to “urgently direct Mrs Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, to disclose spending details of the $700 million…

Chelsea and Liverpool seized the final two Champions League places in a dramatic end to the Premier League season on Sunday, leaving Leicester heartbroken for the second consecutive campaign. With Manchester City already guaranteed a third title in four years and Manchester United certain to finish second, the focus was on the battle for the final two places in the top four. Heading into the 38th and last round of fixtures, just one point separated Chelsea in third place from Leicester in fifth. Two Sadio Mane goals gave Liverpool a 2-0 win at home to Crystal Palace while Thomas Tuchel’s…

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, Friday, renewed call for his residents to rise up and defend themselves against external attacks, especially from militia herdsmen. Ortom made the call at the funeral of Mama Enenu Ebute, the mother-in-law of the state’s Deputy Governor, Mr.  Benson Abounu, Adoka in Otukpo Local Government Area.  The governor described Israel as God’s chosen people, stating that it would not allow its citizens to be slaughtered without defence.  He said, “Our people have had enough of these killings and they should rise to defend themselves against any external attack. We need to live.” In the fight…

Ray Ekpu Protocols It is my unpleasant duty to pay this tribute to Prince Tony Momoh, a very significant member of the media profession who died on February 1, 2021 at the age of 81, 85 days shy of his 82nd birthday. Eventhough Prince Tony Momoh had served in several vineyards as a teacher, community leader, lawyer, administrator, politician and humanist his roles as a journalist, a journalist’s journalist and a trainer of trainers in journalism have placed him on a prominently higher and more visible pedestal like a diamond ring on a beautiful finger. The death of any man,…