Two weeks ago, a privileged security source confirmed to Saturday Vanguard in Abuja that intelligence information available to the northern collection, comprising a select serving and retired military officers, that commandeered the battle to track down the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, was that ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemukpolo, alias Tompolo, is behind the activities of the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA.

On the immediate term, the charge of an Igbo coup was understandable. What would the Igbo have said and done if things had happened differently and the coup had been perpetrated by say, Majors Hassan Usman Katsina, Murtala Muhammed, Joe Akahan, Mohammed Shuwa and Abba Kyari, and the victims been, say, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Dr. Michael Okpara, General Aguiyi-Ironsi, Colonel Conrad Nwawo and Lieutenant Colonels Michael Ivenso, Michael Okwechime and Ime Imo? They would have, of course, cried blue murder and almost certainly plotted countermeasures.

MEMBERS of the All Progressive Congress, APC from Itsekiri and Isoko ethnic oil nationalities in Delta State are furious at the party’s nomination of Adjogbe Ajenakevwe, an Urhobo, as Executive Director Projects, EDP, on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and forwarding of his name to the Senate for confirmation by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Minister of and Sports, Mr. Solomon Dalung, has been controversial since President Muhammadu Buhari enlisted him in his cabinet, but what happened, Wednesday, last week, took everybody by storm.

Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief when the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA and other militant groups suspended hostilities in the Niger Delta region following a two-week ceasefire announced by the Federal Government, June 6.