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B lockchain awareness in Africa is on the rise as governments and stakeholders are collaborating to enhance proper understanding and education on the fundamentals and implementation of the technology. A convention of stakeholders On Aug. 4, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) published a notice inviting stakeholders to a meeting where they will discuss “Virtual currencies as a medium of exchange in Nigeria.” The notice reads: “The Central Bank of Nigeria has commissioned a study on ‘Virtual Currency as an Emerging Medium of Exchange.’ To achieve the objectives of the study, there is need for stakeholders meeting to brainstorm and exchange ideas with a view to gathering relevant information on the nature, scope and dynamics of virtual currency operations in Nigeria. This would provide input into the report of the committee.” The meeting is slated to be held on Aug. 10 at the CBN Headquarters Auditorium in the nation’s capital. The invitation specifically r...

F rom now on, MMM Nigeria offers Mavro-100% to all the members for providing help both through bank and bitcoin. Mavro-100% implies that the amount of Mavros doubles in a month. The contribution of 10,000 naira will grow up to 20,000 naira in one month. Mavro-100% grows daily and does not get frozen. It means Mavro-100% can be withdrawn immediately after its confirmation. The higher growth rate became possible due to the implementation of weekly maximums for withdrawal. Using this mechanism, the System always can balance PH and GH volumes and operate sustainably for unlimited period of time. Now a participant can’t ask to get help again earlier than 7 days after the previous successful GH-request has been created. When a member creates GH-request, he can see the exact amount which is available for withdrawal in the current week – this is his personalised maximum. The total amount of Mavro remains unchanged. The remaining balance is available for withdrawal in the coming wee...

A n aide to Aloysius Ikegwuonu, alias ‘Bishop’, one of the alleged drug barons fingered in the Sunday shooting at St Peters’ Catholic Church, Ozubulu, Anambra State, Mr. Jovita Offomata has dispelled the stories making the rounds that his principal was a drug baron. He refuted claims that his principal is into drug business and the Black Sunday event being a spill over effect of an illicit business. The church attack claimed no fewer than 12 lives and 40 injured persons. But Offomata said the stories portraying ‘bishop’ as a drug peddler were evil and malicious. Offomata who said he had been the chairman of a foundation set up by Ikegwuonu in Ozubulu for years, said he was a school mate to Bishop. He said his boss was an innocuous and pious man which had made him to build three churches for his Ozubulu community. He described the police preliminary investigation as corroborated by the state governor, Willie Obiano, that the attack was a gang war imported into the sta...

A n aide to Aloysius Ikegwuonu, alias ‘Bishop’, one of the alleged drug barons fingered in the Sunday shooting at St Peters’ Catholic Church, Ozubulu, Anambra State, Mr. Jovita Offomata has dispelled the stories making the rounds that his principal was a drug baron. He refuted claims that his principal is into drug business and the Black Sunday event being a spill over effect of an illicit business. The church attack claimed no fewer than 12 lives and 40 injured persons. But Offomata said the stories portraying ‘bishop’ as a drug peddler were evil and malicious. Offomata who said he had been the chairman of a foundation set up by Ikegwuonu in Ozubulu for years, said he was a school mate to Bishop. He said his boss was an innocuous and pious man which had made him to build three churches for his Ozubulu community. He described the police preliminary investigation as corroborated by the state governor, Willie Obiano, that the attack was a gang war imported into the sta...

P resident Muhammadu Buhari has given a timeline that he may resign by a specific time if he doesn’t recover from his undisclosed illness. Buhari left Nigeria for London on May 7 to attend to his failing health and since then, his deputy, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has been acting in his stead. Speaking with INDEPENDENT on Tuesday, a credible source in the presidency said though the president has made immense improvements in the last couple of weeks, he was reported to have told his close aides recently that if he doesn’t recover by a specific date, he will tender his resignation letter. He, however, failed to disclose the specific date or month given by the president. He added that contrary to the views by many, the president is not desperate to cling on to power but he is being advised by doctors to continue with the treatment while Acting President Yemi Osinbajo presides over the affairs of the nation. He also confirmed that though some aides of the presiden...

T he Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has stopped collecting pension and returned all payments made to him, the Kwara State Government has announced. A statement by Isiaka Gold, Secretary to the State Government, on Wednesday said Mr. Saraki stopped collecting the payment since August 2015 and had returned all he collected prior to that time. Earlier, Mr. Saraki had said he had returned the pension paid to him to the state government following criticism of state governors collecting pension while holding new political offices. The senate president had come under attack, especially on social media, following reports that he was still receiving pension from the state government. But Mr. Gold said Mr. Saraki, on his own volition, considered the morality of the situation in which the pension would put him since he is still a serving senator and “chose to abandon his legal rights.” The statement read: “The (Kwara) State Government wishes to make the following clar...

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