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A 36-year-old Nigerian man identified as Onyebuchi has been arrested after he reportedly attacked a security guard and police officers with a machete in Cambodia.

The incident took place on June 30, 2024, in Prey Ta Nou Village, Chak Angre Leu Commune, Mean Chey District, Phnom Penh.

According to reports published by Cambodia media on Wednesday, July 3, the suspect attempted to enter a building while wielding a machete.

When the security guard tried to prevent his entry, Onyebuchi struck him on the hand and then fled into the building.

Authorities were alerted, and upon arrival, they chased the suspect to the 3rd floor of the building where he attacked officers, injuring one in the hand.

The injured officer required 20 stitches to repair the wound.

Onyebuchi was then subdued and taken into custody for questioning.

The incident is currently under investigation.

If Nigeria must overcome her food shortages, then we must make some changes. I suggest the following:

Action One: Every schoolchild should be given seeds and a tiny portion of land to plant seeds. And for thirty minutes of the school day, they should cultivate that land.

Result: It will achieve two things. They will have a lifelong skill of how to grow food. And they will have a harvest to take home to augment their parent's income.

Action Two: At the worker level, each worker should be given seeds and fertilisers for free by the Federal, State and Local Governments. Let them close from work and go home to engage in small-scale agriculture in their backyards.

Result: It will increase Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product and reduce food costs, as well as address scarcity of food items.

Action Three: The Federal Government should send officers to every Local Government Health office to provide every pregnant woman in Nigeria with one crate of eggs. A litre of milk and the equivalent of $5 in Naira weekly. They should also have officers in every primary school in Nigeria to mark a register and give mothers the equivalent of $5 in Naira every week, irrespective of how many children they have (they only get one payment), on condition that their children attend school.

Result: It will make the next generation of Nigerians physically and mentally fitter and more educated. And educated citizens produce more, are healthier, and have fewer children. The end result is that it will boost our Gross Domestic Product and stabilise our population, which is currently growing faster than our economy.

Action Four: Just as we had the Environmental Sanitation Day under the military, perhaps the National Assembly may want to pass a Feed The Nation Act, mandating that the first Saturday of every month should be set aside for compulsory home gardening in Nigeria for one hour during daylight.

Result: It will help instil discipline in Nigerians, as studies show that when people grow their own crops, they are less likely to waste food. It will also help address the weather for two phenomena that is prevalent in Nigeria. It will make us less dependent on imported foods, as well as boost the income of every Nigerian, as they will spend less of their income on food, leaving us with more disposable income.

Action Five: As part of their orientation, each participant in the National Youth Service Corp must spend at least two weeks on a farm, whereby the only food and beverages that they consume should be what they produce or grow. It is possible. Tai and Sheila Solarin achieved it with schoolchildren at Mayflower School, Ikenne.

Result: It will instil discipline in our youth and help us produce a new generation of leaders who understand the importance of food security. They will be more likely to make and implement policies that will help Nigeria achieve food security.

These may look simplistic, but it is simple things done regularly that make nations grow great and strong. Nigeria must make every effort to move from being a consumer nation to being a nation that consumes what it produces-a prosumer nation.

Opposition leaders must move from complaining and criticising to selling Nigerians what they would do better than the government in power. Because picking holes and deconstructing the ruling party is very easy. What is not easy and which takes intelligence is building and ideating.

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All assets owned by Heritage Bank have been put up for sale by the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) after its license was revoked by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

It had earlier been stated that Heritage Bank contravened Section 12 (1) of the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act (BOFIA) 2020 in five different ways. The CBN had said the bank had “insufficient assets to meet its liabilities; conducted its business in an unsound manner; failed to comply with specific obligations imposed upon it under BOFIA, 2020 and the Central Bank of Nigeria Act as well as rules, regulation, guidelines and directives made under both Acts; is critically undercapitalized with a capital adequacy ratio below the prudential minimum applicable to its license category; and its financial performance and condition constitute a threat to financial stability.”

Following the license revocation, the NDIC placed an advertorial on Thursday, June 13, 2024, listing assets of the bank for sale. The assets include vehicles, office equipment, plants, and machinery across the nation.

Interested parties were invited for inspection and subsequently put in bids on the assets to be submitted to the NDIC office in Lagos.

The asset sale advert read;

“The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation in the exercise of its right as Liquidator of failed Deposit Money Banks hereby invites interested members of the general public to buy the assets (landed property and chattels) of defunct Heritage Banks through public competitive bidding.”

This mental laziness has gone on for too long. Stop misleading Nigerians that Peter Obi won the . Read Peter Obi's petition to the Presidential Election Petition Court. He did NOT claim that he won the election. If you are too intellectually lazy to read it, then read the main pleadings. Peter Obi asked that Bola Tinubu be disqualified based on a Chicago court judgment ordering forfeiture relating to drug offences. He thereafter prayed the court to disqualify Senator Kashim Shettima on the grounds of double nomination. Never in his petition did he say that he won the election. Nowhere in that document did he adduce any evidence that he won the Presidential poll. The man, Peter Obi, came a predictable third, and the case he filed in court proves he was fully aware of his performance in that election. Therefore, for the love of God, stop inciting and misleading gullible Nigerians because you want to trend. You are sowing the seeds of a crisis. Obi lost the election. Deal with it!

The new Senegalese government has unveiled measures to reduce the price of rice, oil, bread, and other basic items to address cost-of-living concerns amid high unemployment and inflation.

The country’s budget Minister Cheikh Diba confirmed the development.

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who won the March election, vowed during the campaign to address high living costs in the West African nation that heavily relies on imports.

Under the new measures, the price of a kilo (2.2 pounds) of the most widely consumed type of rice will be reduced by 40 CFA ($0.065, 0.061 euros), while a baguette will cost 15 CFA (0.023 euros) less, the government announced at a media conference, Agence France-Presse reports.

The reductions, which also cover cement and fertiliser, will take effect in the next few days, government Secretary General Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo told reporters.

Spending on food accounts for half a Senegalese household’s budget, Lo said, adding checks would be stepped up to ensure traders respect the new prices.

Budget Minister Cheikh Diba said the government would forego taxes and customs duties imposed on importers to subsidise the price cuts.

The measures will cost 53.3 billion CFA (more than 81 million euros, $87 million), Diba said.

This comes after Senegal joined the club of oil-producing countries this week as Australian group Woodside Energy announced that production had started in the country’s first offshore project.

Faye vowed that profits from the country’s gas and oil resources would be “well managed.”

The Federal Government should not be spending money on prisons and prisoners. They should be making money from prisons. Prisoners should work on farms to grow their own food and even excess produce that should be sold to the public. Let us do what China does, and instead of paying for labourers to build roads, prisoners, including big men and powerful politicians who go to prisons, should build roads and other infrastructure for free. Their payment is their food and board. That could have slashed the cost of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project by close to 50%. How can the government be spending billions to feed and accommodate prisoners while law abiding Nigerians are looking for food and housing? That is a provocation to the average honest Nigerian to commit crimes so he can go to prison and get free meals and accommodation!

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