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The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Francis Bolaji Odesanya, is dead. Odesanya reportedly died in the early hours of today undisclosed hospital abroad after a brief illness. He was the 37th Rivers State Commissioner of Police, having succeeded Mr. Foluso Adebanjo on July 12, 2016.Odesanya joined the force on February 2, 1986, as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police and rose through the ranks to his current position of Commissioner of Police.

There is no let-up in the controversy trailing  the appointment of Justice Samuel Onnoghen as Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) by President Muhammadu Buhari. Not a few stakeholders in the judiciary, including one-time Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Wole Olanipekun, SAN, have joined the discourse after the National Judicial Council (NJC) recommendation. The latest entrant, Prof ITSE SAGAY, SAN, disagrees with Olanipekun's view on the matter. The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) believes there is no law barring the President from turning down the NJC recommendation THERE has been much frenzy, furor and hysteria over the appointment of the Hon Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen as Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), rather than the substantive CJN. The debate has taken every dimension possible, including accusing the Federal Government of trying to suppress the right of one part of the country in favour of another. This debate has generated a lot of...

The Federal Government has released N10.3 billion for payment of pension contributions to pensioners, who retired in November and December 2015. The government also released N2.9 billion to be paid to other batches of retirees, bringing the  amount released to N13.2 billion. Consequently, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has paid the monies to Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs), who have commenced payment to retirees some of who confirmed the receipt of such payments to The Nation. Findings have shown that the last Federal Government retirees  to receive pension after retirement were those who retired in October 2015. This is because retirement benefits payment, which is the last stage of the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), has witnessed some setbacks in recent times due to Federal Government's inability to remit pension contributions and pay accrued rights.

The food industry has been making an impact because of its potential for value addition. Like food waste and animal feed, cassava peels have the potential of becoming big business.DANIEL ESSIET reports Most farms in Ilero in Kajola Local Government Area of Oyo State are full of cassava. The crop is grown widely because there is a market for it. But cassava peel have become a stream of income opportunity. Tunde Rasaki (not real name) is a secondary school pupil from a poor family. To raise N3000 for his school fees, he joined other youngsters people to peel cassava for farmers. For 50 kg of cassava peels, he is paid N100.  He is also given the waste peels which he sells to goat and pig farmers. He makes money from it. In Nigeria, nearly three million households (mostly women) produce 50 million tonnes of cassava yearly. Most of the crop is used for human consumption, but about 14 million tonnes of its by-products, including peels and under-sized tubers, are thrown away. There is a t...

Ex-minister's son 'pays N1b cash for land, four houses' Shamsudeen Bala, the son of a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), paid about N1billion cash for plots of land and houses, according to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The suspect will be arraigned in court today alongside four others— Bird Trust Agro Allied Ltd, Intertrans Global Logistics Ltd, Diakin Telecommunications Ltd and Bal-Vac Mining Ltd. All the suspects are to face a 15-count charge at the Federal High Court, Abuja. According to the EFCC, the son of the former minister, Bala Mohammed, paid cash for five plots of land and four properties in highbrow areas of Abuja to avoid any suspicion by banks and other monitoring agencies. The purchases include five plots at Asokoro Gardens; House FS 2 B, Green Acre Estate Apo-Dutse, Abuja; House FS 1A, Green Acre Estate, Apo-Dutse; FS 1B, Green Acre Estate, Apo-Dutse, Abuja and House 2A, No. 7, Gana Street, Maitama, Abuja. The anti...

The suspended Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, Mrs Jumoke Akindele yesterday said she did not misappropriate N15 million as alleged by some of her colleagues. Akindele, who was reportedly suspended on Friday by 14 lawmakers, said in a statement in Akure that although she was a signatory to the House schedule, she was not a signatory to the cheques. "I wish to place it on record that though I am the signatory to the schedule, I am not a signatory to the cheques of the House. "I did sign the schedule in line with the budget passed by the House so that I do not hold up the business of the House in the likely event that I do not return from my journey early enough. "Most certainly, I did not speak with the Director of Finance and Administration on the issue of cheques or any other matter at all, and I also did not speak with the Clerk. "I did not ask the Pay Master, Mr Makanjuola Adeshina, who was unfortunately brutalised by some of my colleagues to bring any fu...

A while ago there was a rumor that President Buhari of Nigeria died in the UK but many dismissed it as a mere rumor. People of Nigeria, get ready for the worst because it is not a rumor but a reality. Buhari was rushed out of Nigeria in the middle of the night two days before his official leave, and was flown in an air ambulance to the UK for a major surgery. The surgery required that he undergo an organ transplant but his body rejected the new organ due to his age. Though not dead but he is in a vegetable state right now The doctors actually asked him to officially resign because they were not too sure of the success of the surgery but he refused and they went ahead with it. Sadly, Buhari did not survive the surgery and the outcome is being kept a top secret/ Fellow Nigerians, you are being deceived right now because there is a high powered meeting being carried out by Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and the Northern governors and they are planning now to remove the Vice President; as we speak...

Apostle Suleiman, senior pastor of Omega Fire Ministries recently received phone calls twice, alerting him of imminent attack on his church by Fulani herdsmen and orchestrated assassination of his person. Then said he to his aides, in his narrative to his Sunday morning congregation ; "any Fulani herdsmen you see around you or in the church premises, kill him…". This pronouncement went viral on social media and has been termed by many as inciting, unBiblical and deserving of reprimand by the Nigerian authorities. He did not order Christians to kill Muslims. He couldn't have, when he was born a Muslim himself and yet has a sizeable number of Muslims as relations. He couldn't have, when the headquaters of his church is located in Auchi, a town in the Nothern region of Edo state with a large Muslim population, where in fact Christians and their Muslim neighbours have co-existed peacefully for decades. A few days later, officers of the Department of State Security (DSS) t...

President Muhammadu Buhari's doctors advised him  to resign from office as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It was gathered that his doctors are said to have advised him to consider resigning and focusing his attentions on his health. Sources of LeaderNg was unable to say what the nature of the President's illness is or at what hospital the President is receiving treatment. Recall that the President traveled on Jan 19th, 2017 to see his doctors in the United Kingdom, his third such trip to the country in the last 11 months. The official announcement of his trip stated that his vacation would last 10 days and he would resume work on February 6th, 2017 However, a simple glance at the calendar reveals that he will be away for several days more than the contained in the announcement.

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Sergey Panteleevich Mavrodi (born August 11, 1955) is a convicted Russian criminal and a former deputy of the State Duma. He is the founder of the МММ series of pyramid schemes. In 2007 Sergei Mavrodi was found guilty in a Russian court of defrauding 10,000 investors out of 110 million rubles ($4.3 million or N2.085 billion naira). In 1989 Sergey founded MMM. He was then elected to the State Duma, thereby obtaining parliamentary immunity. Mavrodi declared MMM bankrupt on December 22, 1997, then disappeared, and was on the run until his arrest in 2003. In 1998 Mavrodi created Stock Generation, allegedly a classic pyramid scheme presented as a "virtual stock market game". The website ran from 1998 to early 2000. The Massachusetts district court initially found that U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was unable to cite Stock Generation's founders and owners for securities violations. However, the United States Court of Appeals reversed this decision in 2001, concluding ...

The Northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, the State Agriculture Ministry reported a new variant of bird flu discovered in domesticated animals in  on Monday. "This discovery shows how dynamic the bird flu is,'' said state Agriculture Minister Robert Habeck. "The virus is still present and is changing.'' The new version has been given the subtype categorisation H5N5. Researchers at the Friedrich-Loeffler Institute, which made the discovery, said treatment for the new subtype was the same as already being used to fight the H5N8 subtype, according to the ministry.