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Former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina wrote a letter to Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki before he went into hiding revealing that over N3 trillion hidden pension fund is yet to be mopped from 97 pension offices. Maina, in the letter dated 19th June 2015, which he wrote shortly after his return to the country, was seeking for a review of his case and a probe of the various actions taken against him by people bent on intimidating him to submission, just as he accused the 7th Senate of aiding and abetting "pension thieves" across the country. The letter addressed to Senator Saraki was titled: "Pension reform task team - Appeal for review of investigation probe by Senate joint committee on establishment and public service and states and local government administration 2011 - 2013." Maina said in the letter which was made available to newsmen in Kaduna on Friday that, the task team which took off effectively in January 2011, saved the co...

Mitt Romney said during his 2012 presidential campaign he'd like a provision in the Constitution to "say that the president has to spend at least three years working in business before he could become president of the United States." Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner parroted this theme in an interview this March: "We should have excellence in government … The government should be run like a great American company. Our hope is that we can achieve successes and efficiencies for our customers, who are the citizens." And yet, there is no evidence that businesspeople make good politicians. Historians certainly haven't found any. Nevertheless, a big part of Donald Trump's appeal as a presidential candidate was that he was going to bring his "on time and under budget" philosophy to Washington. He was going to run the country like a business. So far it hasn't worked. At nearly every turn, Trump has undermined his own agenda. ...

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who deserted his unit in Afghanistan and was later captured by the Taliban in 2009, won't have to face prison time, a military judge ruled in his case on Friday. Bergdahl, who pleaded guilty last month, is still facing dishonorable discharge from the military, loss of his government benefits, and having to pay a $10,000 restitution. He'll also be demoted, becoming a private. However, he's avoiding by far the most serious punishment. Prosecutors were hoping to put Bergdahl in prison for up to 14 years for desertion and another charge called "misbehavior before the enemy" (basically, putting other US soldiers who had to search for him in harm's way) Throughout the trial, Bergdahl's defense team argued that the soldier suffered from mental illness, which led to his decisions. Bergdahl was in captivity for five years and was eventually brought back to the United States in 2014 as part of a prisoner swap negotiated by then- President Obama. ...

Iran has accused the CIA of spreading "fake news" about the Islamic republic with newly declassified files seized in the 2011 raid in Pakistan in which Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed. The CIA on Wednesday released 470,000 additional files found in May 2011 when US Navy SEALs burst into Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad and shot him dead. According to scholars from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), who were allowed to see the trove before it was made public, the files shed new light on the murky relationship between the Sunni extremist group and Shiite Iran. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed the allegations. "A record low for the reach of petrodollars: CIA & FDD fake news w/selective AlQaeda docs re: Iran can't whitewash role of US allies in 9/11," he wrote on Twitter late on Thursday. The release of the files comes as US President Donald Trump's administration seeks to ramp up pressure on Iran, refusin...