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President of Nigeria, Mohammadu Buhari spoke on the opposition of the country's currency devaluation while contributing to a Presidential Panel Roundtable on Investment and Growth Opportunities at the opening session of the ‘Africa 2016: Business for Africa, Egypt and the World’ at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, today. At the occasion which Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, presidents of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia and president of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina were, president Buhari said: "Nigeria cannot compete with developed countries which produce to compete among themselves and could afford to devalue their local currencies. “Developed countries are competing among themselves and when they devalue, they compete better and manufacture and export more. “But we are not competing and exporting, but importing everything including toothpicks. So, why should we devalue our currency?” the President asked. “We ...

Remember the story I wrote on a president who I call another Mugabe, running for the 5th term in Uganda? President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, who has been in office since his rebel group seized power in 1986, has finally been declared the winner of the country's 2016 presidential elections. According to the Uganda's election Commission, Yoweri, won with 60.7% of the votes while his closest competitor, opposition leader Kizza Besigye, had 35.3%. The country had a voter turnout of 63%. More so, opposition leader Besigye was arrested and two people died at his opposition campaign office. Dictatorial moves? He was put under "preventative arrest" at his home in Kampala yesterday, along with six officials from his party. Authorities detained the officials because they planned to announce unauthorized results tallied by the opposition. 

The Ikwere bride and mother of one was in her hometown for her traditional ceremony. Monalisa was accompanied by stylist and friend Ezinne Chinkata, and some of her colleagues at Nollywood; Oge Okoye and Ebube Nwagbo were present to celebrate with her and Tonye Victor Coker. Monalisa white wedding will still be celebrated in May at Greece. 

Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has sworn in as the new chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) today, after being appointed by President Mohammadu Buhari. Enitan was present at the school's 45th convocation ceremony and officially sworn in as the new chancellor.