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President Muhamadu Buhari on Tuesday in Niamey, Republic of Niger, urged member countries of the Economic Community of West African States to to tread carefully in pushing for a single currency in the sub-region by 2020. He cited the challenges faced by the European Union in realising the same goal to buttress his position. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President made his position known in his speech at the fourth meeting of the Presidential Task Force on the ECOWAS Currency Programme. Buhari said the necessary economic fundamentals among countries continue to differ over the years, making it more difficult to pull through with the project by 2020. “Nigeria advises that we proceed cautiously with the integration agenda, taking into consideration the above concerns and the lessons currently unfolding in the European Union. “To that end, Nigeria will caution against any position that pushes for a fast-track approach to mon...

The Best FIFA Football Awards 2017 were held on 23 October 2017 in London, England. The ceremony was hosted by Idris Elba.  Here are the full list of winners: BEST GOALKEEPER: Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus) BEST GOAL (PUSKAS AWARD): Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) BEST COACH: Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid) BEST PLAYER: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) FAIR PLAY AWARD: Francis Kone (Senegal) BEST YOUNG PLAYER (GOLDEN BOY): 2017 Golden Boy Award voting points: Mbappe - 291 (WINNER) Dembele - 149 Rashford - 76 Jesus - 72 FIFA FAN AWARD: Celtic fans FIFPRO WORLD XI: 1. Gianluigi Buffon 2. Dani Alves 3. Marcelo 4. Sergio Ramos 5. Bonnuci 6. Luca Modric 7. Neymar Dos Santos 8. Toni Kroos 9. Cristiano Ronaldo 10. Andres Iniesta 11. Lionel Messi SUMMARY : BY LEAGUES: EPL - 0 LA LIGA - 7 LIGUE 1 - 2 SERIE A - 2 BUNDESLIGA - 0 BY CLUBS: REAL MADRID - 5 BARCELONA - 2 PSG - 2 JUVENTUS - 1 AC MILAN - 1 __________ FIFA WORLD PLAYER OF THE YEAR HISTORY WINNERS 2017 Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal 2016 Cristiano...

Former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been indicted by the Nigerian senate over a N1.7t loss in revenue. According to the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Alleged Misuse, Under-Remittance and Other Fraudulent Activities, revenue agencies short-changed the Federal Government to the tune of N1.7tn as unremitted revenue generated between 2012 and 2016. The panel blamed it on a memo by a former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who allegedly issued the memo to the agencies to remit 25 per cent of revenue they generated to the Federal Government and spend 75 per cent on their expenditures. An interim report by the committee chaired by Senator Olamilekan Adeola, details this. The panel said the amount to be remitted to the Federal Government during the period by 93 agencies it investigated was N21.5tn. It alleged that 25 of the 93 agencies covered defrauded the government of a total of N1,695,585,887,406. Attached Files:

Sule Lamido, the fomer Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido has written to the People's Democratic Party, indicating his interest to run for the 2019 elections on their platform.. READ MORE HERE Attached Files:

A 16-year-old teenage girl has been arrested along with 52 men after they were caught having intercourse with her consent in turns.  According to the police, it looked like an initiation ceremony for members of Supreme Vikings Confraternity. Ifeechukwu is a secondary school drop-out. During interrogation, she revealed that she travelled from Abuja to Lagos just to witness the ceremony and was given a sedative as not to feel the pain while the men took turns on her. “I joined them three months ago and during my initiation, I was forced to have sex with every registered member of the cult present that night. I was given a sedative so as not to feel what they were doing. It was not easy, but I bore the pain,” “I got to know about the cult activity through a friend. She assured me that all the connection that I needed in this life will be made if I joined the group. I am from a poor family and I wanted to be the light that will change the situation in my family. “She never told me tha...

President Muhammadu Buhari is believed to have ordered discreet screening of top police officers for possible replacement the embattled Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, Daily Independent has gathered. According to Independent newspaper investigation, the president is worried over allegations against Ibrahim Idris. Prominent among them are allegations of corruption levelled against him by Senator Isah Hamman Misau, some serving police officers, as well as some lawyers. In addition, he is being accused of being sectional in the discharge of his national duty. Some of the petitions are said to have been forwarded to President Buhari and to the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). A reliable source at the anti-graft agency hinted to INDEPENDENT that “though the presidency is yet to officially refer the case to us, we are already investigating the allegations based on petitions already with us.” Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshoo...

Cape Town’s drought and associated water shortage has officially escalated to the level of a disaster. The hope for a natural solution ended with the close of the main rainy season in September, and it is clear that water in the dams supplying the city will not last until the next rains in May-June next year READ MORE HERE Attached Files:

The federal government of Nigeria has released an update on the state of the monkeypox virus in Nigeria.  Here's an infographic revealing states with suspected and confirmed monkeypox cases. States with suspected cases:  FCT Nasarawa Ekiti Lagos Delta Enugu Imo Rivers Akwa Ibom Cross River Confirmed cases:  Bayelsa A total of 86 suspected cases have been reported with 294 people being monitored for the virus. States Attached Files:

Lionel Messi and Jayjay Okocha recently struck a pose together.    Messi is a living football legend. Okocha is a living Nigerian football legend.

Zinedine Zidane was named coach of the year but is not taking his time at Real Madrid for granted. According to Goal.com, after the Frenchman received his award, he stated he was not know how long he will be at Madrid but he is determined to enjoy every day.

Real Madrid ace, Cristiano Ronaldo, has been voted the world best player for the second year in a row, beating Messi and Neymar. Ronald took to his Twitter page to celebrate and dedicated this award to his family and all those that have supported him. Other winners at the London ceremony included: Lieke Martens won FIFA’s women’s player of the year award. Zinedine Zidane won men's coach of the year Sarina Wiegman won the women’s coach of the year.

President of the United Labour Congress, (ULC), Joe Ajaero believes the concession of the nation's major airports will lead to massive loss of jobs.  He spoke during a protest by aviation workers against the concession at the Murtala Muhammadu Airport in Lagos. “I came to solidarise with all of you on this challenge again. This is another challenge on the working people of Nigeria. A challenge of concessioning, the challenge of privatization, the challenge of management buy-back or POP, ROT or whatever name as may be proposed by the world Bank and International Monetary Fund (MF). If you have 500 workers now; after concession, only 50 people will remain here. Even those 50 people will be casual appointments”. They told us lies when they wanted to privatize NEPA; the same with NRC and also the power sector. Those pushing for concession are government people; they will use stolen money to buy up the corporations”. Narrating further, Ajaero said “Private sector is not Father Christma...

Sahara Reporters have posted a two-page document which is alleged to be the memo reinstating Abdulrasheed Maina. 

The Former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, has been traced to Kaduna by the EFCC, sources.  An operative of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), says he spent the weekend at an hotel in the state, according to  The Punch . The source added that he is under the protection of the DSS. “We have traced him to a hotel in Kaduna where he went to spend the weekend; we know that the DSS is protecting him and the DG DSS, deployed men to protect him. But make no mistake, we will arrest him, already we’ve frozen all his accounts.” Another source said, “He stays in a property which is a DSS safe house. He moves around in a convoy of about two or three vehicles. I personally saw him alighting from a Range Rover SUV last week with about four DSS officials.” Maina is wanted by the EFCC for perpetrating numerous frauds. Attached Files: Maina-e1446506848132.jpg

Another day, another wahala for President Buhari. Lagos State government leading the charge by tweeting: For the first time in 12 years, Governors of the Southern States of Nigeria on Monday met in Lagos & unanimously called for true federalism. The key question is what does it all mean? This will not go down well in Aso Rock, as the president seems to be caught between a rock and a hard place on many different fronts: anti-corruption, economic, structural, security. All of this while he is still obviously dealing with his health issues. Attached Files:

Former Aviation Minister, Mr. Femi Fani Kayode, has questioned the rule and administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.  With the current crisis involving the former pension reform boss, Fani-Kayode said Buhari is running a "shitty" government. "Hon.Min. Kachikwu says GMD NNPC lied.GMD NNPC says Hon.Min. Kachikwu lied. Hon.Min. Dambazau says Head of Service lied. Head of Service says Hon.Min. Dambazau lied. "What a shitty show of shame  @MBuhari  is running! Can't even control his own officials let alone run a country! Attached Files: