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LAGOS Nike Shox España , May 6 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's secret police Saturday said Ifeanyi Ubah, the owner of Capital Oil, has been arrested over an acts of economic sabotage.


Spokesperson for the Department of State Security Tony Opuiyo said in a statement made available to Xinhua in Lagos, Nigeria's economic hub, that the businessman and politician was arrested on Friday in connection with the theft of petrol kept by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in his tank farm in Lagos.


The product was valued at over 11 billion naira (about 34 million U.S. dollars).


Ubah's action amounted to economic sabotage, with "capacity to negatively impact on national economy," Opuiyo added, noting that the businessman has further engaged in other activities inimical to national security and public order.


The DSS spokesperson said Ubah incited members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD), a critical player in the downstream sub-sector of the Petroleum Industry, to refuse or stop the lifting of products in furtherance of his gimmicks to undermine the country.


Nigeria's state run oil giant had on March 17 revealed that about 100 million liters stored at the Capital Oil & Gas depot and over 30 million liters in MRS Limited depot, all in Apapa area of Lagos, were not found when needed.


Ubah has described the allegation of theft against his company as mischievous and misleading. He said the NNPC also failed to tell the public that it also owed Capital Oil billions of Naira from their mutual business transactions.


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HARARE, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) party on Tuesday voted to expel Tendai Biti, the party's general secretary and a former finance minister in the coalition government, as infighting between Biti's clique and the group loyal to the party's leader Morgan Tsvangirai, the former prime minister, intensified over the past few weeks.


This came three days after Biti's clique unilaterally announced that Tsvangirai and his close allies had been "suspended" from their party positions for betraying the party's founding principles of democracy, tolerance, peace and constitutionalism.


Tsvangirai's spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka told a press conference right after the MDC-T's national executive and council meetings that Biti was voted out of the party by 162 out of 167 delegates attending the meetings.


Biti, 48, is a lawyer by train and co-founder of MDC-T with Tsvangirai. He served as Tsvangirai's right-hand man and the finance minister during the coalition government forged after the disputed 2008 presidential polls. Tsvangirai, who withdrew from the run-off with current President Robert Mugabe, was named prime minister from 2009 to 2013 before the coalition government dissolved.


But infighting within the party intensified after another poll defeat by Mugabe and his ruling Zanu-PF party at the 2013 elections. Elton Mangoma, the former energy minister, was brutally beaten and expelled from the MDC-T allegedly after openly calling for Tsvangirai's resignation.


Tsvangirai has ruled at MDC-T helm for 15 years and has refused to step down despite the party president's two five-year term limit. Biti is considered a sympathizer to Mangoma.


"Biti and Mangoma have not betrayed him but have betrayed the people of Zimbabwe," Tsvangirai told supporters Tuesday after the expulsion of Biti. "I do not believe this is a split but its individuals who have decided to form their own party."


Tsvangirai said MDC-T members who sided with Biti will be expelled too.


It is the second split of Tsvangirai's party since 1999. The last split created a MDC-N, led by politician Welshman Ncube, while forcing Tsvangirai to change the party's name to MDC-T, with the initial T to show his identity.


Political analysts say a divided opposition will further reduce the chance of Tsvangirai to unseat Mugabe, if he wants to run again in 2018.


Tamborinyoka said the party will hold an early congress in October to re-energize itself after the split.


BERLIN, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Dortmund celebrated a goal festival and crushed Monchengladbach 6-1 while Leipzig returned to winning ways after edging Frankfurt 2-1 at the sixth round in Bundesliga on Saturday.


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