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Rotimi Akeredolu has emerged the governorship candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State following today’s primary election held amidst tight security in the capital of Akure. Governor Mohammed Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa State, who is also the chairman primary election committee of the party that monitored the exercise, announced Mr. Akeredolu as the winner of the poll at the international event center moments ago. Our correspondent found that other members of the APC Primary Election Committee include: Dr. Bruce Ugbide, Rep. Hamma Ali, Prince M. Martin, and Mr Mohammed Lawal. He described the conduct of the APC primary election producing a candidate for the opposition party in the state as transparent and credible. Mr. Abubakar, however, asked the unsuccessful aspirants in the election to pacify their supporters to join hands with Mr. Akeredolu in order to win the November 26th governorship election in the state. He disclosed that the party was prepa

Legendary rapper, Lil Wayne of the defunct group,  Cash Money, Young Money(YMCMB) took t o Twitter today 3rd September 2016 to announce his retirement from the music industry.  This comes in light of his recent feud with the Rich Money Gang RMG headed by his former mentor, sponsor and associate.  More details about this will be published as soon as possible

The Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria (SEC) recently rejected the activities of an investment scheme tagged MMM Federal Republic of Nigeria ( nigeria-mmm.net ). MMM has been widely regarded as a Ponzi scheme. The company claims to give 30 percent interest to their members each month and 10 percent upon referral of any new member. SEC warned that the company is not registered by the commission, and that business with them is high risk. What you need to know about MMM’s Ponzi Scheme MMM stands for Mavrodi Mondai Movement. The scheme was founded by Sergei Mavrodi in 1989 and was converted into a ponzi scheme. In 1994 the company went bankrupt and Mavrodi went into hiding until 2003. In 2007, a Russian court arraigned Sergei Mavrodi for defrauding 110,000 investors of 110 million rubies. He was sentenced to four and half years in a penal colony. A Ponzi scheme is an illegal investment scheme where the person or organization running it pays returns to existing investors f

Unknown Gunmen on Saturday abducted fourteen workers from the Nestoil oil company in Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State while travelling in their company van. According to eyewitnesses, the employees were returning from their work site at Omoku area and were en route to Port Harcourt when they were ambushed by the kidnappers. Reporters was unable to speak to anyone from the company’s management to issue a statement at the time of publication. When our correspondent contacted the Public Relations Officer of Rivers State Police Command, Nnamdi Omoni, confirmed the development and stressed that their men have swung into action. He added that police have located the staff van. Mr. Omoni said policemen have moved into the bushes in that area and expressed optimism that the workers will be rescued.

FLASH: Police and NSCDC officers clash at Ondo primary election, fire tear gas at each other and discharge weapons .  Detail later

On a normal day, 36-year-old Chukwuemeka Nwocha, the General Overseer of Tongue of Fire Restoration Ministry located in Igbosere, Lagos, is a ‘man of God’ that his congregation, both young and old, called “Daddy”. But on Friday, as he was being paraded before journalists at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters in Ikeja, he was no longer a “spiritual daddy”  but a suspect who harboured 13 underaged girls as sex slaves in a three-bedroomed harem. Fair complexioned and soft-spoken,  Nwocha did not come across as someone capable of such crime. When he started to talk about what he did before journalists, he started by saying “By His Grace,” a statement that elicited a laugh of derision from all present. According to Nwocha, it all started when the children in his church, who called him, “Daddy, daddy” told him they would like to visit him. He said, “I only tried to help the girls.When the first girl came, she said she  did not have anywhere to go. I did not know her parents. I a

David Sneddon, a student at Brigham Young University in Utah, who got missing in the Yunnan Province in western China when he was 24 in 2004, may have been kidnapped  by the North Korean government. Sneddon whose body was never found was presumed dead while hiking in Tiger Leaping Gorge near the Jinsha River on August 14, 2004. According to a report on Wednesday in  Yahoo News Japan,  Sneddon had been spotted in North Korea, where he is believed to live. He reportedly works as an English teacher, and has a wife and two children. The US Department of State announced Wednesday that they will begin searching for Mr Sneddon in North Korea. Choi Sun-yong, who heads the Abductees’ Family Union, said a source revealed Sneddon had in fact been kidnapped by North Korean operatives, and worked as an English tutor for Kim Jong-un who was heir to the country’s dictatorship as of that time. Roy and Kathleen, Sneddon’s parents, never believed the official story that their son had died