South African boy kidnapped for bitcoin found

A South African teenager was found Thursday four days after he was kidnapped by a gang who demanded a ransom in bitcoin cryptocurrency worth about $123,000 (105,000 euros), police said.

Police declined to say if any ransom had been paid after the 13-year-old boy was taken in the eastern province of Mpumalanga while playing near his home and driven away in a car.

Local media published a ransom note left at the scene demanding 15 bitcoins and giving an address for a bitcoin “wallet” — an internet location where the virtual currency can be stashed.

Imo APC tussle: Okorocha meets Buhari again in Aso Rock

Okorocha meets Buhari again in Aso Rock

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met behind closed doors with Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and former governor of Edo, Adams Oshiomhole, in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The News Agency reports that Okorocha’s meeting with the President, which lasted for about an hour, came a few days after he had met the President in his country home, Daura, Katsina State, where he had complained about the conduct of the ward congress of the All Progressives Congress in Imo.

Okorocha, who was accompanied by the former governor of Edo, Adams Oshiomhole, declined comment on the outcome of his meeting with the President.

180 injured in South Africa And 12 dead in train crash

180 injured in South Africa And 12 dead in train crash

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At least 12 people were killed and 180 injured in South Africa on Thursday when a passenger train collided with a truck and burst into flames, an official said, as rescuers searched for survivors.

Images showed a fire engulfing several passenger carriages that were derailed at the scene near Kroonstad, 200 kilometres (125 miles) southwest of Johannesburg.

“The death toll has increased to 12,” provincial government health spokesman Mondli Mvambi told AFP, adding that at least 180 people had been injured, two of them critically.

I’ve not endorsed any successor – Aregbesola

 I’ve not endorsed any successor – Aregbesola

Ahead of 2018 governorship election in Osun State, Governor Rauf Aregbesola said that he has not endorsed anyone to succeed him.
The governor made the declaration in an all night interactive programme tagged: ‘Ogbeni Till Daybreak’ on Saturday in Osogbo.
Aregbesola, said it was not true that effort to choose who would succeed him in 2018 was threatening his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
The governor said APC in the state was as solid, strong and effective as any party could be.
“There is no any aspect of our party’s organisation and management that have suffered in any form in respect of who will be my successor

Cleric- God says Buhari will complete his tenure

A clergyman, Obinna Omerie, has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari will successfully pilot the affairs of the country till 2019 in good health.
Omerie, the founder of Grace and Great Kings Christian Ministry, Egbu, Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo, made the declaration while addressing journalists in Owerri on Saturday.
“God revealed to me as His prophet that Buhari will complete his tenure in 2019,” he said.
He said that those expressing concern over President Buhari’s health are spiritually blindfolded and speaking from revelations backed by satanic sources.

EFCC seeks total forfeiture of $43m as court’s deadline expires

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday told the Federal High Court in Lagos that no one has come forward to claim the $43,449,947 (about N13 billion), N23, 218,000 and £27,800 (about N10.6milion) cash found in an apartment on Osborne Road, Ikoyi Lagos.
It, therefore, prayed Justice Muslim Hassan to make an order of final forfeiture of the money to the Federal Government.
The judge, while ordering a temporary forfeiture of the money on April 13, directed EFCC to advertise the order in a newspaper so that anybody who owns the money can claim it within 14 days.
EFCC’s lawyer, Rotimi Oyedepo, said no one showed up in court to show cause why the money should not be permanently forfeited.