Nigeria meets all criteria for ECOWAS single currency – CBN

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Nigeria is the only country in the region that has met the “primary convergence criteria”.

The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, on Economic Policies, Sarah Alade, said Nigeria meets all the criteria to adopt the ECOWAS single currency.

Ms. Alade made this known at the 37th Technical Committee meeting of the West African Monetary Zones in Abuja.

She said Nigeria is the only country in the region that has met the “primary convergence criteria” which were set for the member-states in 2013.  There are four primary criteria including the attainment of single-digit inflation rate at the end of each year and fiscal deficit of not more than four per cent of Gross Domestic Product, GDP.
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Inhuman: Ritualists Cut Off Woman’s Head in Ondo

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Tongues are wagging in Arigidi Akoko in Akoko North West part of Ondo State over the chopping off the head of a female for alleged ritual purpose. Already, Police authorities in the state have ordered full blown investigation in to the incident which is  causing panic in the community. Police sources said the headless body of the deceased was found along old Ogbagi/Arigidi Akoko road at about 9pm on Saturday.
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Photos: Malala Yousafzai meets Pres. GEJ

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  Girl-child education advocate, Malala Yousafzai, accompanied  by her dad, met with Pres. Jonathan today Monday July 14 at the State House. Speaking during the meeting, president Jonathan said;

“I personally believe that since about 50 per cent of our population are female, we will be depriving ourselves of half of our available human resources if we fail to educate our girls adequately or suppress their ambitions in any way. We are therefore taking steps to curb all forms of discrimination against girls and women, and have also undertaken many affirmative actions on their behalf" he stated. See more photos after the break....

3 Men Nabbed In The UK For Sexual Exploitation and human trafficking. [PICTURED]

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Three Nigerians – Olusoji Oluwafemi, 44, Johnson Olayinka, 45, and Florence Obadiaru, 48, have been arrested and jailed in the UK, for 13 years collectively for human trafficking.


According to Daily Mail UK, a 23-year-old Nigerian girl was conned into flying to Heathrow Airport on a bogus passport, with the promise of education, a job and new home.

When she got to London, she was molested, beaten and subjected to “juju” ritual before being sent to Italy  to become a prostitute.

Video: Check out the meaning of Iya Mopo,statue in Osun Osogbo .

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Video: Dead young girl Wakes Up at Her Own Funeral

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A cellphone video has captured the incredible moment a 3yr old girl woke up during preparations for her own funeral in a church in Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, in the Philippines. The girl had been declared dead by doctors at a local hospital on Friday July 11th after being taken there the day before suffering from a fever for several days. 

Impeachment: Panel indicts Nyako, absolves deputy

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There are strong indications that the seven-man panel set up to investigate allegations of gross misconduct against the Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako and his deputy, Mr. Bala Ngilari, has indicted the governor but absolved the deputy.

It was learnt in Abuja on Sunday, that the panel set up by the immediate past acting Chief Judge of Adamawa State, Justice Ambrose Mammadi, to investigate allegations levelled against the duo arrived at the decision after reviewing exhibits tendered by members of the State House of Assembly who are the complainants.

Fashola to Nigerians: 'If You Want to Have Stable Electricity Supply, Vote PDP Out in 2015'

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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, while marking his 2,600 days in office at an elaborate ceremony held at the Blue Roof of the Lagos Television premises, has said voting out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power in next year’s general election is the only way the country can have stable electricity.

According to The Nation, Fashola said electricity crisis in the country is caused by lack of ideas and insincerity of purpose on the part of Federal Government.

Nigeria democracies represent the interests of Nigeria leaders and their Colonia masters.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. - Alice Walker 

Freedom will not be seized through voting within the political parameters of corruption. It will be seized through revolting.  They do not care about your interests whatsoever.  Nigeria leaders monopolies steal from Nigerians, they torture the poor, they rob the country. There's no democracy in In Nigeria.  Nigeria leaders hate political freedom. They hate democracy. They hate political rebellion. They just want the poor to die.

Emmanuel Ifeajuna: Commonwealth Games gold to facing a firing squad

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The Nigerian high jumper was the first black African to win a gold medal but his remarkable story had a tragic end. He was tied to a stake and executed for treason. Read the story below written by former Sports Editor of the Observer, Brian Oliver... 
The first time Emmanuel Ifeajuna appeared before a crowd of thousands he did something no black African had ever done. He won a gold medal at an international sporting event. “Nigeria Creates World Sensation,” ran the headline in the West African Pilot after Ifeajuna’s record-breaking victory in the high jump at the 1954 Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver. He was the pride not just of Nigeria but of a whole continent. 

An editorial asked: “Who among our people did not weep for sheer joy when Nigeria came uppermost, beating all whites and blacks together?” 
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Harry Potter actor David Legeno found dead in California aged 50

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Hikers found British actor, who played werewolf Fenrir Greyback in Harry Potter films, in a remote area of Death Valley

British actor David Legeno, who appeared as a werewolf in the Harry Potter films, was found dead by hikers in a remote area of Death Valley, California police said on Friday.

The Inyo County sheriff’s office said the body of Legeno, 50, was found early on Sunday morning and a helicopter was used to transport it from the area.

Photos: Man allegedly nabbed with explosives at Awo Hall in OAU

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Based on eyewitnesses, the person pictured above identified as Rasaki Adebayo was on Wednesday July 9th caught in the Awo Hall of the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife in Osun state, trying to create explosives. He was caught using what appeared to be petrol combined with chemical. The students said he was attempting to blow up a block in the hall. The person was immediately arrested and remains in police custody. 

Death toll from Ukrainian shelling of miners' village near Donetsk rises to 12

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The death toll from a Ukrainian attack on a miners’ village near the Trudovskaya coal mine in a suburb of Donetsk has risen to 12, the Donetsk city administration reports.

Earlier reports said that six people had been killed in the attack, which occurred on Saturday.

The Donetsk administration offered condolences to the victims’ families

Obanikoro To Aregbosola: Start Packing Your Bags Now

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Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro at the weekend said the People's Democratic Party (PDP) would win back the South-west from the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Obanikoro, who made the declaration at a thank-you rally of the PDP's governor-elect in Ekiti State, Dr. Ayodele Fayose held at the Freedom Park, Ojota.

US ready to 'intensify' efforts to reach peaceful settlement in Ukraine

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Ukrainian President Petr Poroshenko held telephone consultations with US Vice President Joseph Biden, Interfax cites the Ukrainian president's press service as saying.

"The talks dealt with intensive coordination between Ukraine and the United States, and with the European partners. Biden assured the Ukrainian president that the United States was prepared to intensify international efforts to forge a peaceful settlement," it said.

The US vice president conveyed his condolences to the Ukrainian people over combat losses, according to the press service

Amid spy scandal Kerry remains unfazed, calls US, Germany 'great friends'

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US Secretary of State John Kerry, standing alongside Germany's foreign minister on Sunday, stressed the strategic importance of relations between the two countries, which have been battered by new allegations of US spying on Berlin.

"Let me emphasize the relationship between the United States and Germany is a strategic one," Kerry said in Vienna on the sidelines of nuclear talks with Iran. "We have enormous political cooperation and we are great friends."

Israel mobilizes 20,000 troops for possible ground attack along Gaza border

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Israeli forces take up positions along the Gaza border, waiting for the green light for a possible ground offensive after six days of air strikes, reports Reuters. Israeli army tanks line up on the Gaza border Sunday. A ground war seems likely - especially in the wake of reports that Israeli commandos conducted an overnight raid on Gaza.

So far, at least 20,000 reservists have been mobilized.

But despite intensified Israeli military action, Islamist Hamas continued to launch rockets on Israeli cities. In the Israeli city of Ashkelon, one teenager was seriously wounded after being hit with shrapnel in the head and chest, reports Reuters.
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Nigeria loses ₦376bn to pipeline vandalism

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The Managing Director of Pipeline and Product Marketing Company (PPMC), Prince Haruna Momoh, said Nigeria lost N376 billion between 2008 and 2013 to pipeline vandalism.
Momoh stated this on Saturday in Uyo at a capacity building workshop for energy correspondents.
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'We are Ready to Expose all Northern Sponsors of Boko Haram' – Ex-Militant Leaders

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Some Ex-militant leaders in #Ondo state under the third phase of Amnesty programme has pointed accussing fingers as some Northern leaders for being behind the spate of bombing and abduction perpetrated by the deadly terrorists group, Boko haram since 2011,

Speaking at the end of a state of the nation meeting by ex-warlords in the Niger-Delta struggle in Ore town, Odigbo council area of Ondo state at the weekend, the ex-agitators said they were ready to expose every Northern leader behind the Boko Haram sect.

APC calls for inquiry to unravel Boko Haram sponsors, modus operandi

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by Vanguard
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for an international inquiry into the activities of the terror group Boko Haram in order to unravel its modus operandi and sponsors as well as any individual or group that may have links with the insurgents, with a view to ending, once and for all, the debate over who is behind the insurgency and also to facilitate efforts to tackle it decisively
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the inquiry should include intelligence experts from the US, UK, France and Canada, as well as representatives of the UN and Nigeria’s neighbours Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
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