‘ Updated October 22, 2022 Former Chief of Army Staff, Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, says Nigeria is being brought to ruin by heavily armed “useless” criminals. The former defence minister, who insisted on self-defence to drive out country’s common “enemy”, said Nigeria will be finished if this is not done. The octogenarian spoke on Saturday when he delivered a goodwill message in Wukari, Taraba State, where Governor Darius Ishaku presented staff of office to His Majesty Manu Ishaku Adda Ali, the 25th Aku Uka. He knocked the military for living in denial over Nigeria’s aggravating security challenges, saying the “evidence” of what he said four years ago is now obvious for all eyes to see. Danjuma had in March 2018 urged Nigerians to defend themselves against their killers but his call for self-defence attracted stark criticisms. Four years later, the former defence chief on Saturday said, “Our country is under siege by armed bandits, all over the country when some few years ago, I warned

 Oil theft: Tompolo’s men arrest captain, 7 others, recover stolen crude oil October 13, 2022Joseph Atinayang …Reject N25m bribe from oil cabal to free ship Operatives of Tantita Security Services Limited, TSSL, owned by ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, have ambushed and arrested eight members of a suspected crude oil syndicate while they were pumping crude oil from a Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, pipeline in Delta State, into an improvised 87-metre long ocean-going vessel, MT Deino. At the time Tantita operatives and Nigerian security officials swooped on the captain of the vessel, Captain Temple Manasseh, from Bayelsa State and seven other suspects, they had pumped 605 cubic metres of crude oil into the vessel with 12 compartments from an illegal connection attached to a CNL crude pipeline, between Abiteye community and Escravos in Warri South Local Government Area. The vessel bore an International Maritime Organisation, IMO, number, 7210526, at the time it w

 Akwa Ibom map is incomplete – Prof. Peter Esuh.  October 13, 2022 Joseph Atinayang Advocates setting up of committee of experts to review current map State Surveyor General to address the issue shortly. The current map of Akwa Ibom State has been described as “incomplete” and “distorted.” A professor of Corporate and Marketing Communication and Applied Rhetoric, Peter Esuh, asserted this on the sideline of the opening of the Week of the Information Chapel of the Akwa Ibom State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Uyo. Esuh, who is also the Dean, Faculty of Communications and Media Studies, University of Uyo, Uyo, had stirred the curiosity of WatchmanPost, when, during his keynote address at the event, he remarked that the current map of the state was distorted. The professor, who was speaking on the theme of the Chapel’s Week, ‘Government Information Managers: Impact, Challenges and Prospects in the Completion Agenda’, as the keynote speaker on the occasion, advocated that