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Yaya Toure has reversed his decision to retire from international football and wants to help bring through the next generation of Ivory Coast players. Toure, 34, retired in September 2016 with over 100 caps. The Manchester City midfielder said on Twitter “I love my country and I am free for the national selection. I want to help the next generation and use all my experience so that all Ivorians are proud.” Source: Africa News Team

Yaya Toure has reversed his decision to retire from international football and wants to help bring through the next generation of Ivory Coast players. Toure, 34, retired in September 2016 with over 100 caps. The Manchester City midfielder said on Twitter “I love my country and I am free for the national selection. I want to help the next generation and use all my experience so that all Ivorians are proud.” Source: Africa News Team

Foreign currency transfers by Nigerians in overseas hit $19 billion in 2016, data from the World Bank has revealed. The reports show that Nigeria was the largest receiver of diaspora funds in the sub-Saharan Africa. Facts available indicate that this source of revenue was becoming as popular as earnings from the oil and gas sector. Citizens living in foreign countries across Europe and America were major sources of the diaspora funds. Back home, the diaspora funds helped several families to set up micro businesses. To facilitate diaspora funds, the Central Bank of Nigeria licensed 11 more money transfers companies in…

By: Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez I walked down the street in Barcelona and suddenly discovered a terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz … We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz, we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world. The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned. And under the pretense of tolerance,…

Sudan is set to devalue its currency to 18 Sudanese pounds per dollar in January next year from the current exchange rate of 6.7, the finance minister said on Tuesday. The International Monetary Fund urged Sudan earlier this month to float its currency to boost growth and investment, but the government has ruled out a market-determined exchange rate. The devaluation which includes the customs exchange rate – the rate used to calculate customs duties – is timed to take place when the 2018 budget begins, in the first week of January, Finance Minister Mohamed Othman Rukabi told Reuters. Traders said…

Thirteen girls of Comprehensive Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State have died of snake bite, hunger and malaria in Boko Haram custody, Wall Street Journal, WSJ, has reported. A total of 276 girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents from their school in Chibok in 2014. Of the total number, 163 are now free; while 57 fled in the early days after their abduction, three more escaped later, and a Swiss-coached mediation secured 103. WSJ report said, “Of the remaining 113, at least 13 have died,” officials say. “Some were felled by malaria, hunger or a snake bite. “The majority…

George Weah, former football ace, is new president of Liberia. Weah won the elections in Liberia Wednesday after clinching 12 out of 15 counties to become that country’s 25th president. The senator of Montserrado County – once named Fifa World Player and winner of the much coveted Ballon d’or – defeated his 73-year-old opponent, Vice President Joseph Boakai in a landslide victory in results announced in Liberia on Wednesday morning. “I am deeply grateful to my family, my friends and my loyal supporters who contributed to our campaign during this extremely long election season,” Weah said on twitter before the…

The perfection of a man is based on his ability to distinguish between facts and fiction through deductive reasoning — Socrates. There have been many counter narratives on the reason why EFCC arrested Innoson and equally we have seen GTB response on its running battle with Innoson and his company Innoson Nigeria Ltd. According to C.P Scott, “Comments are free but facts are sacred”. Now that this fight has become an open issue and the public is yearning to know the truth concerning the issue Innoson has with GTB, I will in a three (3) part series of articles reveal…

China will become the world’s next “super power” in 2018, a blind mystic who many claim predicted 9/11 and the rise of ISIS, had predicted. Bulgarian Baba Vanga – who died in 1996 at the age of 85 – is well known among conspiracy theorists who believe she foretold natural disasters and global events long before they occurred. By then, China would predictably overtake the ruling United States of America. The country has economy that is steadily expanding over the last few years. In 1970, the country made up just 4.1 per cent of the total world’s economy but this…

The Federal Government has been accused of deliberately creating fuel scarcity to intimidate Nigerians into accepting a raise in pump price. Ayodele Fayose, the Governor of Ekiti State, who made the accusation Monday, said the federal government intended to increase the pump price, but did not know how to go about it. Fayose while supervising the sale of state government assisted petrol at N145 per litre to the people at Alade filling station, along Iyin road Ado-Ekiti, said the gesture was in fulfilment of the promise he made on Sunday. He said: “It is time for Nigerians to take me…