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Naya Rivera Death: She Got her Son Back on the Boat but Couldn’t Save Herself
Naya Rivera, a Glee actress went missing on Wednesday afternoon during a boat day with her four-year-old son Josey.
She and her son had climbed off the boat and gone swimming. However, the boy was found asleep in his life jacket on their pontoon but there was no trace of the 33-year-old Glee Star.
According to Ventura County Sheriff ‘Bill Ayub’, Rivera mustered enough energy to get her son back on the boat, but not enough to save herself. The boy told investigators that his mother helped him back aboard but when he looked back, he saw her disappear into the water, Ayub said.
Earlier on Monday, the Ventura County Sheriff announced that a body had been pulled from the water. Ayub said that while an autopsy and official identification are forthcoming, the circumstances from the location of the body to the fact that no one else has been reported missing in the lake makes the department ‘confident that the body we found is Naya Rivera.’
He said there was no indication of foul play and no indication this was a suicide. Ayub confirmed an adult life jacket was on board the boat and that the body recovered was not in a life jacket. He did not have details on if Rivera was able to swim.
Ayub said swimming is allowed in the lake but that it is typically used for watercraft recreation. A petition was started Monday to ban swimming ‘in these dangerous waters’.
Captain Eric Buschow confirmed on Monday afternoon that it was Rivera’s body and that the family had been informed.
‘This hits home for everybody involved. We’re in the business of saving people… it’s hard for everybody involved,’ he said.
Last week one of the dive team explained to DailyMail.com that gases released from a corpse decomposing underwater would cause it to rise up to the surface, usually after four to seven days unless it was caught on branches or tangled in vegetation underwater.
Police said the county’s medical examiner has been called and will take the body back to their office to be officially identified and to perform an autopsy.
On Monday, they honed in on a cove where the actress had taken a photograph of Josey and sent it to a relative 90 minutes before he was found on the boat.
They focused their search on that cove on Monday. The actress grew up 20 miles from the lake and was familiar with it, police sources said last week. She thought of it as her ‘sanctuary’, despite it being known for rip currents and icy waters that can overpower swimmers.
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The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has secured three separate interim orders from a Federal High Court in Abuja to freeze bank accounts linked to 194 business entities and individuals in 17 banks.
This was contained in a post by the apex bank on its website yesterday pursuant to the court order. The freeze orders were sequel to three exparte applications filed by the apex bank seeking a mandatory order of the court to ask the 17 banks to freeze the account of the business organizations and individual pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation the apex bank had initiated.
In one of the suits against Nuru Abubakar and 24 others, the court granted the request by CBN to freeze the account of the defendants in the banks for 45 days. Justice A.R Muhammed who made the order in his ruling on March 30, 2021, said: “An interim order is hereby made empowering the applicant to direct the head office of the listed banks to freeze forthwith all transactions on the bank account of the defendants for a period of 45 days pending the outcome of investigation and inquiry currently being conducted by CBN.”
In another suit filed by CBN against Sethwealth Ventures and two others, the court granted an exparte application by the apex bank to freeze 50 accounts linked to the three defendants in 13 banks. A similar order was also made in the suit by CBN against Bluebeam Capital Ltd freezing 60 accounts of the company in 13 banks.
The 17 banks affected are Access Bank, First City Monument Bank, Fidelity Bank, Sterling Bank, Keystone Bank, Providus Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA), Wema Bank and First Bank. Others are Guaranty Trust Bank, Ecobank Bank, Heritage Bank, Polaris Bank, Zenith Bank, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and Union Bank.
The companies affected include Bluebeam Capital Limited, Sethwealth Ventures, Seasons Bureau De Change, Lat-Ade Logistics, Sani Polo Global Investment Ltd, Saneo Global Resources Limited and Romvic Ventures Nigeria Limited.
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April 7, 2021The Abuja Geographical Information systems (AGIS), deserves commendation under the current management for its efforts aimed at restoring property owners’ confidence in the department and ensuring corrupt free processes in land allocation in the FCT.
AGIS is the computerized land registry of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, established since 2003
The department provides a comprehensive, All-Inclusive, state-of-the-Art, computerislsed, geospatial data Infrastructure for the FCT.
AGIS is one of the major creations and legacy of Mallam Nasir El-rufai as Minister of the FCT under former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration.
The establishment of AGIS has restored confidence and added value to landed properties in the city, significantly addressing several crisis related to land scam and racketeering in the FCT.
Before now land allottees had been raising concerns following series of accusations bothering on corruption among staff of AGIS.
Some of the allegations included double allocation, theft of allocation documents, fake allocations, as well as its employees demanding for bribe before performing their statutory duties.
It is, however, worth mentioning here that the narrative is gradually changing under the current management of AGIS.
The management is therefore, working tirelessly to purge out corrupt elements from the system, as demonstrated by its current reforms.
Let me also emphasize that as a trained labour activist, as well as public affairs analyst, you cannot find me praising a particular agency or manager easily, I prefer constructive criticism to bring out perceived shortcomings and for improvement.
I therefore find some of the criticisms against AGIS, judging it based on its past management as unfair, in fact illogical.
I am a witness to the credibility, integrity and sincerity of Alhaji Ibrahim jalo-led AGIS.
Jalo has indeed shown genuine commitment and sincerity in leadership by making indelible marks in his efforts aimed at eradicating corruption in the system.
My recent encounter with AGIS has no doubt erased the negative perception of a corrupt agency that I held because of its past.
I recently had the privilege of observing the organisation closely during a fact finding mission when property documents allocated to a good friend of mine mysteriously got missing.
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My friend had applied for a land in Abuja through the AGIS, like any other Nigerian.
He paid the statutory fee and passed through every normal process to the end; patiently awaiting approval and allocation.
The land was later approved and an allocation letter released to the wrong hand as my friend was to learn later, because he was not notified.
The documents are believed to have been stolen and sold to a high profile personality in this government.
My friend only got to know when some fraudsters attempted to use his details to log into the AGIS portal.
Luckily the officer in charge was smart to dictate an anomaly and so decided to verify by putting a call through to my friend from the contact number he sourced from the initial data capture on the system.
He was to learn later that the land was allocated to him about a year ago, but he never received the documents.
He eventually visited AGIS and laid his complaint through Alhaji Adamu Jibrin, the Director land, and Malam Umar Kuso, the Head of Administration.
Both men immediately swung into action by setting up a committee to unravel the mystery behind the missing land documents.
My friend was invited and appeared before the committee for his testimony.
It was discovered during the probe that a high profile personality bought the land through a middle man fronting for yet to be identified staff of AGIS.
Unfortunately the middle man died earlier this year in a car crash, making it difficult to unmask the suspected employee who stole the documents and gave to the deceased.
It was also revealed that the buyer paid millions of naira for the land documents.
The buyer was also invited by the committee and all issues surrounding the land were laid before him.
He accepted his fate that he was scammed and promised to surrender the documents in his possession to AGIS.
Due to AGIS’ past record and experiences shared by others, my friend was worried and started loosing hope of recovering the land due to the snail speed of the probe, in spite of the committee’s promise to do justice.
I believed them and continue to encourage him to do same” trusting that the management would be just and fair on their findings.
Was hopeful of a positive outcome because a friend who works in AGIS already whispered that the current leadership had zero tolerance for corruption and was doing everything possible to purge out corrupt staff from the system.
I put a call across to AGIS and was granted appointment to meet with the Director Lands, and the Head of Admin.
My meeting with them no doubt yielded fruitful result because we had a very positive discussion which further cleared my doubts that they would be just and fair in handling the matter.
They demonstrated sterling leadership qualities by showing concern and remarkable interest to find the missing documents and prevent future occurrence of such.
The management saw me as partner in progress, not as an enemy, as we continually shared information, leading to the resolution of the issue.
After the submission of the probe committee report last week, my friend was invited and his allocation letter was handed over to him as the genuine owner without paying a dime to anyone as bribe or inducement.
I Therefore wish to call on Nigerians to always verify the position of any information before casting the stone.
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