US hypocritical and extortive towards its citizens living abroad – immigration expert

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More expatriate Americans are parting with their US citizenship than ever. Overseas US offices reported 1,000 US citizens and green-card holders had renounced their allegiance in just the first three months of the year. The figure puts 2014 on track to top last year's total of almost three thousand renunciations, which was already a record high since the government began disclosing such data.

The figures are somewhat disturbing, as it is more than three times higher then the number in 2012, and greater than the combined totals for 2011 and 2012, according to the US Treasury Department.

Gunmen Attack Convoy Of Edo Deputy Speaker, Others.

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The Deputy Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Festus Ibea, along with the Minority Leader, Emmanuel Okoduwa, and a member of house, Patrick Iluobe. were reportedly attacked by unknown gunmen on Sunday, 22 June, 2014.
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Gunmen Attack Convoy Of Edo Deputy Speaker, Others.

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The Deputy Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Festus Ibea, along with the Minority Leader, Emmanuel Okoduwa, and a member of house, Patrick Iluobe. were reportedly attacked by unknown gunmen on Sunday, 22 June, 2014.
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Just In: Bomb Blast in Kano This Afternoon Leaves Many Dead

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Based on a breaking information report, a blast gone off this afternoon around 2pm at the School of health Technology found along Gida Murtala–W UK Rd in Kano state eliminating scores of people. More details later... 

Health Insurance Convention To Hold Soon

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As part of efforts to reduce the level of ignorance on insurance by celebrities which has led to the untimely and unavoidable deaths of several prominent entertainers in the music and movie industries, the first Nigerian Entertainment Industry Health Insurance Convention is set to hold soon.
The convention will serve as a forum to introduce health insurance policies and its benefits to the Nigerian entertainment industry and the society at large.

Accordingly, the convention is designed as a customised learning and education platform for the practitioners of the entertainment industry.

13-Yr-Old Nigerian Boy Dies After Trying To Save A Drowning Girl

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13 year old Ricky Osagie (pictured above, his dad right) from Warrenstown died on Saturday June 21st following a brave attempt to try to save a girl who had got into trouble swimming in a man-made pond at Waterville Hall residential complex in Blanchardstown, Dublin on Friday June 20th.

According to Irish Mirror, a friend of Ricky’s, a teenage girl got into the water and was almost drowning when Ricky and another female friend jumped into the pond to try to help her. The other teen girl who jumped in to help also now had difficulties in the pond, and it was up to Ricky to save both girls. Which he did. Paramedics were called and all three teens were taken to the hospital. The two girls survived, but Ricky died the next day.

World Bank okays $495.3m for northern farmers

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The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on Friday approved a $495.3m International Development Association credit to improve farmers’ access to irrigation and drainage services in the North.

A statement issued by the bank on Friday said the money would strengthen institutional arrangements for integrated water resources management and improve delivery of agricultural services in selected, large-scale public schemes in northern Nigeria.

“The Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria project will improve existing irrigation on 27,000 hectares, irrigate an additional 23,000 hectares, and benefit more than 140,000 farmers while mobilising private sector investment.

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Post Ekiti state election: Ayo Fayose explains Why he won

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Some of you think he won simply because he gave out bags of rice.. No o! It was a free and fair election and even the incumbent governor Kayode Fayemi called Fayose to concede defeat and congratulate him. In a sit down with some journalists yesterday in Ekiti, the Ekiti state governor-elect tells how he managed to defeat a sitting governor

"It is the Lord’s doing. I want to recall that my removal in 2006 remains a mystery to the common man on the streets but they never left me for a day, they believed in me. I want to equally let you know that I was left with the people without money, eight years in the wilderness. My charge to every politician is to target the poor people. They will not come and ask you for contracts, all they want is to have their lives improved, to which they believe I have an answer.

20yr old Pakistani woman gang molested, killed and hanged from a tree

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A 20 year old Pakistani lady identified as Muzammil Bibi was found strangled and hung on a tree after resisting rape attempts by three men. Police in Pakistan say the young lady was accosted by the men in a field at the densely populated Punjab province and when she tried to resist being molested, they beat her up, molested her, strangled her and afterwards hanged her on a tree, local media reports.

Eva Alordiah: #2 of 5 Nigeria’s Famous Female Singers

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Eva could win any man’s love. Any day. With a glowing beauty, heads are easily turned. An abundance of talent, Eva is not just a singer. No. She doubles as a writer, rapper, model, dancer, makeup artist, song writer and hustler too. And it takes a lot of steam and hard work to pull all these through.

However, her moment came calling when she voiced over Lil Wayne’s A Millie instrumental. That experiment paid off. Eva has since built on that.

  

Much ado about Cassava bread

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 President Goodluck Jonathan presenting the 40% Cassava flour-baked
 bread to the public during the weekly meeting of the Executive
 Council of the Federation at the State House, Abuja.

A FEW months ago, the Federal Government had expressed its intention to begin the implementation of a national policy on cassava bread. Under the arrangement, bread manufacturers are expected to substitute 20 per cent of the wheat flour content of bread with cassava flour, a decision that is expected to drastically reduce the country’s total annual wheat import bill by N127 billion from the over N600 billion worth of wheat imports annually. This move by the Federal Government to give full backing to such an initiative of substituting wheat with cassava in the local production of bread in Nigeria is laudable in the sense that it is a good opportunity to make better use of the nation’s abundant cassava, which research has shown to be healthier and a better suitable flour for bread making.

I Open My Boobs To Please My Fans – Singer Yetunde Agboola

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Before she was a great lady but fast rising artist, Yetunde Agboola has begun getting the bad lady option and she's carrying it out due to her fans, according to her. In reality, Yetunde said this is exactly what other ladies do too.

    "I expose my breast for the sake of my fans. And that is what is in vogue now. So there is no big deal in me exposing my boobs," she stressed.

We won’t focus on Messi – Yobo

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Fenerbahce defender Joseph Yobo has stressed that Nigeria will not focus on stopping Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi when they square off with Argentina on Wednesday afternoon.
The Super Eagles skipper has pointed out that there are 10 other players that will be on parade at the Estádio José Pinheiro Borba .
Nigeria's Nigeria's midfielder John Obi Mikel and Nigeria's defender Joseph Yobo (R) shake hands at the end of Group F football match between Iran and Nigeria at the Baixada Arena in Curitiba at the 2014 FIFA World Cup on June 16, 2014. AFP PHOTO / LUIS ACOSTA

Gov Kayode Fayem admits defeat, congratulates Ayo Fayose

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Incumbent Governor of Ekiti State and APC Flag-bearer, Governor Kayode Fayemi has conceded defeat and congratulated Ayo Fayose, the PDP candidate at yesterday's governorship election. At a press conference in Ado Ekiti this morning, Governor Fayemi wished the Governor-elect, Ayo Fayose all the best in his service as Governor of the state.

See the transcript of his speech after the cut as posted on the Facebook wall of the Senior Special Assistant (Corporate Communications) to Governor Fayemi, Mr Akin Rotimi....

Bukola Saraki - GEJ: You can lose even as an incumbent.

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 'If you fail to do the will of the people, even while an incumbent, you can lose.' That's the message former Kwara State governor Bukola Saraki sent to Pres. Jonathan on twitter as he congratulated Ayo Fayose for winning the Ekiti state governorship election.

Senator Saraki and President Jonathan pictured above when he was still in the PDP. He's since moved to APC where their candidate, Fayemi, lost. See his tweets after the break.

24-year-old 'Men of the Strip' star, Nate Estimada commits suicide

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 What a waste. Such a fine specimen of a man! Nate Estimada, one of the stars of male revue and E! reality movie 'Men of the Strip' (male stripping), committed suicide on Wednesday June 18th by driving his car off a cliff, TMZ reports

The 24-year old reportedly drove his Mustang in a mountainous area near the City of Industry in L.A. County during the daytime and accelerated off the cliff, dropping at least 40 ft. into a landfill.

 Authorities have determined the plunge was intentional and they're conducting toxicology tests to determine if drugs were in Estimada's system. 

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#12. EDO STATE: The 36 States of Nigeria and their Meanings

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12. EDO STATE

Hmmmmn, Edo. Initially applied to mean the Bini people (they’ve always called themselves Edo or Iduu, after the progenitor of the Edo race) of the Benin Kingdom (which existed for about 1,000 years before the British conquered it in 1897), Edo today also means the land itself, the culture and the language. It also refers to the adjoining peoples, cultures and languages. The name appears in the royal title of the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo. I must chip it in here that many of the websites of Nigerian state governments were absolutely useless for any form of information gathering. Some were either propaganda pages for the governor or were just too bad -graphics and all. Some states did not even have any website! No online representation or presence at all! In the 21st century, this is a shame. But I must say that a few states have very outstanding websites.

WEBSITE: http://www.edostate.gov.ng/node

  

#11 EBONYI STATE: The 36 States of Nigeria and their Meanings

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11. EBONYI STATE

Known for having some of the nation’s finest rice, yams and richest salt deposits, the state was named after the Aboine River which rises from the Enugu Highlands and cuts through Abakaliki, the state capital. It was formed in 1996 under the military junta of the late General Sani Abacha. Geographical name data supplied by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, a member of the United States military intelligence community shows the river flowing not too far from Afikpo too, with its main tributary being the Asu River. The river joins Cross River 10 km to the east of Afikpo (see references). During the colonial times, it was known as the Western Aboine River. One of the major activities along and on the river is sand quarrying. Ebonyi is home to the brilliant Nkwa Umuagbogho and the Amasiri-based Ojianyalere Dancers. You need to see their dances to appreciate. Mehn! They are superb dancers! Nigeria is such a rich country, only if we realize this and concentrate on real matters and not the irritating trivialities you see everywhere today. You can enjoy some of the dances here:

 
  

#10 DELTA STATE: The 36 States of Nigeria and their Meanings

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10. DELTA STATE
Obviously, it was named for the delta of the River Niger formed as it enters the Atlantic Ocean. The geographical feature formed when a river is about to enter a larger body of water like the sea or ocean is called a delta and there are various shapes.

WEBSITE: http://www.deltastate.gov.ng/

  

#9 CROSS RIVER: The 36 States of Nigeria and their Meanings

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9. CROSS RIVER
First, it is Cross River State and NOT Cross Rivers State. And yes, it is Rivers State, not River State. Don’t get it twisted. The state took its name from the Cross River (known to natives as the Oyono, and the Manyu River in Cameroon). Flowing through swamps, creeks and inland delta, it joins the Calabar River to end up in the Atlantic Ocean.

WEBSITE: http://www.crossriverstate.gov.ng/