By News Desk,


Following Thursday’s tanker explosion on the Otedola Bridge which led to loss of lives, a fresh accident has occurred along the Otedola Bridge axis of Berger in Lagos, barely 24 hours after a tanker exploded around the same spot on Thursday.

According to the Lagos Rapid Response Squad (RRS), two vehicles, a commercial bus and a Toyota Hiace collided inward Lagos, opposite the scene of Thursday’s accident.

The RRS said the incident was as a result of reckless driving on the part of the commercial bus driver who was going at a high speed against the traffic.


http://www.theguildng.com/10-injure-in-another-otedola-bridge-accident/

Fuel tanker explodes, flame engulfs vehicles in Lagos

A fuel tanker has exploded along the Otedola Bridge en-route Berger in Lagos with the blaze engulfing several other vehicles.

The tanker was heading into Lagos towards Alausa when the crash occurred, causing panic and fear.

The incident has led all mode of transportation along the road to be at a standstill as emergency officials at the scene fighting the blaze and attending to affected victims in order to prevent further fire incidents in the area.

As at time of this report, no casualty had been reported by the authorities.

http://www.theguildng.com/fuel-tanker-explodes-in-lagos-as-fire-engulfs-cars/

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The former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has assured his Ghana based two newly formed diaspora supporting groups, Atiku Ambassadors in Diaspora and Atiku Solidarity Movement in Diaspora, that he would not disappoint their expectations in delivering good governance that Nigerians, both home and abroad, have been yearning for, since after independence.

Atiku stated that plight of every Nigerian over present situation of the country, needed to be given required attention and that he was making himself available for such sacrifice and task that would put Nigeria back on track of posterity.

Speaking during inauguration of the two diaspora supporting groups recently in Lagos, the former vice, who was represented by chairman, Lagos-West Senatorial District, People Democratic Party (PDP), Ajagbe Adejumo, raised concerned over Nigeria, which he claimed was in critical need knowledgeable, embracing and determined leadership that would take rightful place in the comity of nations.

He indicated that leaders in the country had invested much hope and gave more cooperation to have that dreamed country, than any other in history was consumed in petty divisive antics.

The former vice prescient, who commended the diaspora support for his presidential race, decried that Nigerians were in threshold, with much distrust, anger and hunger across the land, despite the nation’s huge human and material potentials, and that doing nothing and continue on ill the path till nation goes up in flames of hate, could be dangerous for future of Nigeria.

“Effort against taking up of arms, in a violent revolution that may not solve our problems but needlessly lead to the loss of many promising lives, must be avoided and it is through your support and that of other Nigerians could that be achieved.

Atiku informed that he was prepared to assist organize, mobilize and engage Nigerian teeming youths to take up mantle of leadership and join in determining future of the nation.

“The fact that you are here today in your numbers, despite that you are not resident in the country and are not induced financially, spending your own resources to support the most qualified Nigerian alive today for the post of President, shows you have taken the third option” .

http://www.theguildng.com/atiku-assures-ghana-based-supporting-groups-good-governance-delivery/

The former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has said that his ambition to become People Democratic Party (PDP) flag bearer for presidential race was not a do or die affair mission, since his aim was only to serve Nigerians.

Atiku reiterated his commitment to the party and Nigeria as a whole, his ambition in getting ticket was not that of do or die affair but that he hope that PDP would ensure it does what was right for the interest of Nigerians who were in dare need of better hands to run affairs of the country.

Beside, expressed satisfaction on level of performance and deliveries of the party’s National Working Committee oversight function, saying the deliveries were demonstration of what PDP stands for.

Atiku, during a courtesy visit to the PDP’s National Secretariat on Friday in Abuja, commend leadership of the party for ensuring conduction of a free, fair and transparent governorship primaries election recently Ekiti

http://www.theguildng.com/my-ambition-is-not-a-do-or-die-affair-atiku/

Musa scores brace as Super Eagles defeat Iceland in Russia


Ahmed Musa scored twice as improved Super Eagles defeat Iceland in a Group D World Cup match at the Volgograd Arena, Russia on Friday.

A second-half salvo from Ahmed Musa saw Nigeria beat Iceland 2-0 at the Volgograd Arena and keep their World Cup dream alive.

The Super Eagles put in a disjointed showing in their opening match against Croatia, but posed far more threat against Iceland and took the lead when a scything counterattack was finished off by an emphatic Musa strike as he plucked the ball out of the air from Victor Moses’ cross and fired the ball past Hannes Halldórsson.

And the 25-year-old Musa, who was brought into the side to replace Alex Iwobi, added a second on 75 minutes to spark wild celebrations as he finished in an open net having rounded Halldórsson after beating Kári Árnason for pace.

http://www.theguildng.com/musa-scores-brace-as-super-eagles-defeat-iceland-in-russia/

Musa scores brace as Super Eagles defeat Iceland in Russia


Ahmed Musa scored twice as improved Super Eagles defeat Iceland in a Group D World Cup match at the Volgograd Arena, Russia on Friday.

A second-half salvo from Ahmed Musa saw Nigeria beat Iceland 2-0 at the Volgograd Arena and keep their World Cup dream alive.

The Super Eagles put in a disjointed showing in their opening match against Croatia, but posed far more threat against Iceland and took the lead when a scything counterattack was finished off by an emphatic Musa strike as he plucked the ball out of the air from Victor Moses’ cross and fired the ball past Hannes Halldórsson.

And the 25-year-old Musa, who was brought into the side to replace Alex Iwobi, added a second on 75 minutes to spark wild celebrations as he finished in an open net having rounded Halldórsson after beating Kári Árnason for pace.

http://www.theguildng.com/musa-scores-brace-as-super-eagles-defeat-iceland-in-russia/

Musa scores brace as Super Eagles defeat Iceland in Russia


Ahmed Musa scored twice as improved Super Eagles defeat Iceland in a Group D World Cup match at the Volgograd Arena, Russia on Friday.

A second-half salvo from Ahmed Musa saw Nigeria beat Iceland 2-0 at the Volgograd Arena and keep their World Cup dream alive.

The Super Eagles put in a disjointed showing in their opening match against Croatia, but posed far more threat against Iceland and took the lead when a scything counterattack was finished off by an emphatic Musa strike as he plucked the ball out of the air from Victor Moses’ cross and fired the ball past Hannes Halldórsson.

And the 25-year-old Musa, who was brought into the side to replace Alex Iwobi, added a second on 75 minutes to spark wild celebrations as he finished in an open net having rounded Halldórsson after beating Kári Árnason for pace.

http://www.theguildng.com/musa-scores-brace-as-super-eagles-defeat-iceland-in-russia/

By Odilim Enwegbara

Just ask yourself how come the supposedly floated  naira, which makes its value be determined by the market forces is still defended by the same Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that floated it? Put differently, why did the CBN pretend to have floated the naira and contrary to this policy of floating around the world, the same CBN continues to intervene in the forex market rather than participate in the market?

Another important question to ask is: why, following the floating announcement, the naira lost the unheard-of 31% value, selling at N288.85 per dollar on June 20, 2016?

The next question you should ask yourself as a concerned citizen is: why did the CBN have to float the naira immediately after the 2016 budget was signed into law, with the naira officially pegged at N197 per dollar?

These questions will provide answers about how the forex coup was carefully orchestrated by those who would soon start making trillions of naira through forex management manipulations.

As they limited access to dollars to few large banks and traders, at N197 rate, the arbitrage created became so unheard-of along with the opportunities to exploit the huge gap created by the artificial scarcity. While the planned kill has been going on, the economy has been in flames.

Thanks to CBN preferring to intervene when the right policy would have been to participate in the forex market from time to time. Not minding this being the common thing done when a currency is floated, as part of the agenda to defraud our commonwealth, those behind this forex scam decided intervening in the forex market.

Also, the huge cost it imposes on the economy, notwithstanding. So, through intervention in the forex market, the CBN has continuously distorted the forex market; a supposed market where suppliers and buyers ought to be fighting to achieve equilibrium.

But before we go further, it is important to refresh our minds with the banning of 41 goods and services, which took place on May 3, 2015 at the critical time when neither Jonathan nor Buhari was fully in charge. I wouldn’t make us to dwell on whether or not the CBN went beyond its mandate by including what was ordinarily an important policy exclusively reserved for our fiscal policymakers, which should have been accompanied by an outright ban of such goods and services entering the country’s economic space by the Nigerians Customs Services (NCS).

But what we should not forget is the fact that most of the imported items banned from accessing forex at the Nigerian official forex markets such as “iron rods, cold rolled sheets, wire rods, reinforcing bars, polypropylene granules, glass and glass ware, textiles, plastic and rubber products, as well as tomato value chain sectors,” are among the high consumers of forex.

Yes! Most analysts were concerned that such a CBN forex policy was done without taking into full account the critical intermediate role most of these products play as critical inputs for many manufacturing activities. In the meantime, importers of critical industrial plants and machinery as well as raw materials who were either not ready to pay such huge difference as they are denied access to the official forex markets saw no other option but to lay off most of the workers as they are forced to reduce their business activities.

Importers of cheap Chinese and Indian consumer goods, who don’t mind the high forex cost, including accepting from the commercial banks at the black market rate, continued to have their import businesses to blossom, thanks to their readiness to being in bed with top CBN and commercial bank officials, who rechanneled billions of dollars to the black market through round tripping, from where their fronts sell it to these importers of cheap consumer goods.

For those who apply for forex from the official forex markets, once the commercial banks use their naira to secure the forex, and once the banks have the forex from the CBN transferred to their overseas accounts, the same commercial banks will turn around to lie to these customers, by telling them that they were unable to secure any forex for them from the said official market.

In the meantime, the commercial banks will then go ahead to advise them to accept the so-called forex in their foreign bank accounts, banks that are actually the partners. Since these importers of plants and machinery or critical industrial raw materials have no other option, they of course go ahead to accept the black-market rates these banks always offer them.

The negative consequences on our economy were unbelievably huge; leading to the economy’s eventual succumbing to the powerful forces of recession. While each year as a result, over a trillion of naira is made in this forex fraud perpetuated by these powerful officials of CBN and their presidency counterparts  — who hardly care about the huge cost and the sufferings their actions have continued to unleash on the masses of Nigeria  — many more businesses either collapsed or joined others in fleeing the country taking along with them hundreds of thousands of jobs.

But you see, that was not what those central bankers had in mind. Their interest, which was selfishly driven to eventually force the importers of these 41 banned items to henceforth source their forex from the black market at exorbitant price. This is where the free hundreds of billions of naira are made by top officials of CBN and their fronting commercial banks, especially with foreign currency (domiciliary) accounts with commercial banks forced to be shut down by the same CBN.

Now try to reconcile this policy with the CBN sharing forex among some bureau de change that are indirectly closely linked to, if not owned by, top CBN and presidency officials. It is here that this forex policy that pretended to be banning 41 imported goods and services for the good of economy exposes the fraudulent intentions of those who hurriedly made it.

The question, therefore, becomes: but why is CBN handing billions of subsidized forex (dollars) to the supposed forex users  —  through the banks  —  through its forex market intervention and done so at such an incredible loss to our commonwealth, when participating in the forex market would have been earning government and the whole country the same hundreds of billions of naira we are losing as a result of this carefully constructed forex policy summersault fraudulently perpetuated by the CBN at each intervention in the forex markets?

The answer if not already obvious is not far-fetched. By intervening rather than participating, the managers of our forex at CBN have decided to share with banks and many big time consumers of forex like Dangote, the gains that would have been accruing to government had they participated in the forex market.

Always selling the dollar far below the forex market value makes the CBN subsidise dollars from time to time at atrocious rates. To now know the level of forex fraud associated with this underselling of the dollar is to know the kind of huge gains that necessitate that.

Here is it: the CBN monetises the oil dollars to naira and hands the three tiers of government the naira equivalent, say at N197 from 2016 to May 2017  –  the month the 2017 budget decided to peg the oil dollars at N305 per a dollar.

As a result of this carefully engineered free fall of the naira, during the 12 months (June 2016 to May 2017), the CBN in pretence of defending the naira was pumping minimum of $1 billion into the forex market and the least naira exchanged for a dollar was at N350 when the parallel markets were selling at not less than N450.

Of course, you wouldn’t be wrong to say that CBN officials were making N153 (i.e. N350 — N197) for government on each dollar they sold in the official forex market, even though the Fiscal Responsibility Act permits the apex bank to keep 20% of that profit. But there is the hidden truth that makes top CBN officials such instant trillionaires.

Now, by selling at such a huge gap between official rate (N350) and parallel market rate (N450) a whopping N100 is stolen. How? For you to get the artificially scarce naira for your imports or other foreign transactions, you are required to accept dollars at the parallel market rate, and why shouldn’t you?

If you are an importer of finished consumer goods? Ok then, let us multiply 12 billion by 100 and what do you get, N1.2 trillion. That was more or less how much these folks at CBN stole from all of us between June 2016 and May 2017.

Again, this fraud will run from June 2017 to May 2019, since 2018 budget will run up to May 2019 at N305 per dollar. While since June 2017, they have drastically reduced government’s profit with naira officially increased to N305 and officially selling at about N310 against parallel market at N380 (more or less), the folks in charge of disbursing the forex at CBN go behind to insist on the difference between the official rate and the parallel market to be handed to them or else no dollars can be allocated to the said end user. And being importers of finished consumer goods, they always hand them N70 per dollar, being the difference between N310 and N380. Here, we are talking about N840 billion (70 x 12 billion) between June 2017 and May 2018.

By now, it is crystal clear for one to understand the kind of mind-boggling forex fraud taking place at our apex bank that is being hidden away from Nigerians. But then, that is not all, as you may presume that they have some human feelings.

What makes the crime total and devastating is the fact that, the loots are reinvested into the system by lending back the money to government at an atrocious interest rates — in most cases between 14% and 16% (N840 x 0.16) gives you N134.4 billion, that is more or less the extra money to be made from their N84 billion loot between June 2017 and May 2018. In the case of interest earned between June 2016 and May 2017 (N1.2 trillion x 0.16), they went home with as high as N192 billion free cash.

What we can’t tell is if in this scam, they have some powerful politicians whose...

http://www.theguildng.com/a-forex-of-fraud/

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President Muhammadu Buhari signed the 2018 Appropriation Bill into law.

The President approved the bill on Wednesday at the Aso Villa in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

He signed the budget in company with the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, as well as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari and other government officials.

Senator Udo Udoma (Budget and National Planning), Lai Mohammed (Information and Culture), and Kemi Adeosun (Finance) witnessed the signing of the budgets.

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Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), has described Ekiti is a state where change is necessary.

At the launch of the mega rally of APC’s governorship candidate, Kayode Fayemi, in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, Tinubu said that Ekiti would join the progressives after the change.

“We will not take Ekiti back to the past. You all must use your Permanent Voters Card (PVC) to vote in APC.

“Your PVC is your red card. Use your PVC to give PDP a red card on July 14,’’ Tinubu advised the crowd.

Prince Dayo Adeyeye, former spokesman of PDP and former works minister formally defected from his party to APC.

Adeyeye, who was also a governorship aspirant of PDP, said: “PDP died in Ekiti since May 29.’’

“I have decamped from PDP and many others would soon join the APC.’’
He said he was now committed to APC to ensure that Ekiti came up again in terms of development

Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, national Chairman of APC, received Adeyeye and other defecting PDP party chieftains.

He congratulated them and assured then that “we will be here to celebrate victory’’.


http://www.theguildng.com/we-will-not-take-ekiti-back-to-the-past-tinubu/

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The former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has affirmed that supreme sacrifices of past patriotic Nigerians, particularly that of presumed winner of June 12, 1993 presidential election, late MKO Abiola, and lives laid down by other democratic heroes, which liberated the nation from decades of military ruling, have not gone in vain, with historic June 12, been adopted as Nigerian democracy day.

Atiku stated that he had never seized hoping for a day when prices, paid by those who put their lives on line to achieve democracy, which entire citizen were presently enjoying, would be glorified and be paid deserving dues.

Speaking at 25th anniversary of June 12 Democracy Day in commemoration of Abiola on Tuesday in Lagos, the former VP indicated that blood of democratic heroes were sacrificed for foundation of a democratic society that would guarantee fundamental human rights, secured citizenry freedom of speech, movement and ability of the people to belong to any lawful association that they deem inclined.


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World number one Rafael Nadal won an 11th French Open title by beating Austrian Dominic Thiem in straight sets.

Nadal won 6-4 6-3 6-2 to earn his 17th Grand Slam, three behind Roger Federer’s all-time men’s record.

The Spaniard edged an intense opening set, tightening his grip in the second.

And despite having cramp in the third he increased the tempo further, beating Thiem in his first major final when the 24-year-old returned long.

“It’s a dream to win 11 times,” Nadal said.

“It was important to play the way I did. It was a tough moment when I got cramp. He is a player who pushes you to the limit.”


http://www.theguildng.com/nadal-claims-11th-french-open-crown/

Nigerian reggae artist, Ras Kimono whose debut album Under Pressure was a big hit in the Nigerian music scene in 1989 was said to have died on Sunday.

He was said to have died at Lagoon Hospital in Ikoyi, where he was rushed to after he slumped on Saturday.

Members of the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) have confirmed the death of the reggae musician.

Similarly, President of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN), Pretty Okafor, expressed shock when he received the news that the reggae artiste had died.

http://www.theguildng.com/reggae-legend-ras-kimono-dies-60/

Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel will start on pole in Montreal, with Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes joining him on the front row.

Vettel edged Hamilton’s Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas by 0.093 seconds as Red Bull’s Max Verstappen sneaked ahead of Hamilton with his final lap.

Hamilton was unusually out of sorts on a track at which he has excelled so many times, and a series of mistakes left him struggling to keep up.

He was 0.232secs off the pace.

Vettel, who is 14 points behind Hamilton in the championship and has a great chance to make up ground, said: “Yesterday we were a bit in trouble and I just couldn’t get the rhythm, but today it switched on and what a day.

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The Kogi State West Senatorial District Representing at National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has contended an honor of Grand Commander of Federal Republic (GCFR), announced by President Muhammadu Buhari, as been a wrong recognition for presumed winner of June 12, 1993 election winner, Late MKO Abiola, since he was longer alive.

Malaye, contending the announced honor, cautioned Buhari against breaching constitution and that such a recognition was only meant for the living.

However, the president had, 25 years after the election, directed the honor be conferred on Abiola and declared June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day to further honour the presumed 1993 election winner.

Buhari also directed Abiola’s running mate, Babagana Kingibe, be conferred with the second highest honour of Grand Commander of the Niger (GCON).

Meanwhile, the GCFR was exclusive to presidents and former presidents until President Shehu Shagari conferred it on Obafemi Awolowo in the Second Republic.

Citing Chapter 43(2) of National Honours Act on Thursday at the assembly, Melaye argued that the act does not allow for conferment of the honours on non-Nigerians.


http://www.theguildng.com/gcfr-is-a-wrong-honor-for-mko-malaye/

By Hafsat Abiola-Costello

Twenty five years after June 12: Our Long Wait for Justice is Ending

I had expected that the handover from military rule to democracy would be held on the 12th of June.

That would have signalled the completion of a circle that began with a dream deferred.

That became one fulfilled.

But I waited in vain.

The handover was set for May 29, a date pulled out of thin air, signifying nothing.

Then I thought that the chief beneficiary would ask the country to observe a minute of silence,

In memory of MKO, Kudirat, Alfred Rewane, Umaru Yar’Adua, Bagauda Kaltho, the thousands of students, the tens of journalists, traders and politicians who lost their lives fighting to actualise an unjustly annulled election.

Again, I waited in vain for he started his inauguration speech…

And nothing was said.

The first four years passed and it became clear that the goal was to erase the name of the man whose sacrifice paved the way for our democracy.

Those four years set the tone.

And I got tired of waiting

As it slowly became clear that to wait was to wait in vain.

I stopped expecting my country to do the right thing by my father and instead began to understand why Nigeria struggles to find patriots among its leaders.


http://www.theguildng.com/twenty-five-years-after-june-12-hafsa-abiolas-poem/

By Reuben Abati

There are three aspects – the strategic, the political and the legal – to the Federal Government’s decision to replace May 29 with June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day, and to confer on the late Chief MKO Abiola, the highest honour in the land.

Strategy: Long before now, the Buhari government had needed to review its strategy of engagement with the public, move from blame-passing, propaganda, in-fighting, enemy-seeking approach to a more legacy-driven, result-oriented mode.

It is like this: when a government is in decline, and it is losing popularity and goodwill, then it is time to change the narrative. That is precisely what the Buhari government has done with the masterstroke of a special focus on June 12 and Chief MKO Abiola at a time when virtually everyone from the Catholic Church, the opposition, prominent political figures, the media to estranged members of the APC are carrying placards against the government.



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The Nigeria Police Force has claimed that three identified members of a robbery gang that launched attacked on bank and police station recently in Offa, kwara State, were among people that accompanied Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on condolence visit to the community monarch palace after the incident.

It insisted that Saraki, mentioned by Offa robbery gang leader, Ayoade Akinnibosun, was still under investigation, the restatement of which came after the police arrested two of three suspects listed by those earlier arrested.

As gathered from the police, Akinnibosun and two other suspects including Ibukunle Ogunleye and Adeola Abraham, were among people who accompanied Saraki to Oloffa’s Palace during a condolence visit to Offa after the bank robbery.
http://www.theguildng.com/robbery-gang-leaders-accompanied-saraki-to-offa-palace-police/

The #NotTooYoungToRun bill, recently signed into law by President Muhammed Buhari, is an alteration of sections 65, 106, 131 and 177 of the 1999 constitution of Nigeria. The bill seeks to reduce age requirements of citizens seeking political offices in the country, and as well the issue of independent candidacy, championed by Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement(YIAGA), sponsored by Hon. Tony Nwulu and Sen. Abdul-Aziz Nyako.

The signed bill had reduction in age criteria for presidential aspirant from 40 years to 30 years, house of representatives from 30 years to 20 years, and same for state house of assemblies, but failed to alter the age criteria for the senatorial seats and governorship aspirant which still remains at 35 years.

Unto that development, I would like to say an half-heart congratulations to the Nigerian youths, or better still “congra”, because this is a job well done halfway by the mantle of leadership in the country.

http://www.theguildng.com/future-of-nigerian-youth-now-in-their-hands/

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A Lagos based woman has approached an Igando Customary Court in Lagos for dissolution of a four-year-old marriage between Musilimotu Olashuyi and her husband, Gbenga, who conspired with a cleric to sleep with her.

Musilimotu, claimed that, having had earlier approached the court, seeking to end her marriage, an Alfa made love to her with her husband’s approval.

She alleged that husband got to know the cleric through her after she made the man of God her confidant since she worship in the man’s mosque.

“When he told me that my husband business is not moving fine, I brought him home to meet my husband.

“Before I know what was happening, my husband conspired with him to use me for money ritual.


http://www.theguildng.com/court-hears-how-man-approve-sex-between-wife-islamic-cleric/

Whenever I listen to some of our economists proposing a stronger naira I wonder on what economic development theory they are basing their argument.

First, any proposal of a strong currency is never done with pro-real sector investment, pro-growth, pro-jobs or pro-poverty alleviation fully considered. That explains why I’m not only strongly opposed to this kind of economics. I always try to do so with enough convincing evidence to prove my case.

I say so because to believe that the strength of any economy is dependent on the strength of its currency and as a result promotes its competitiveness only amounts to poor knowledge of the workings of modern international trade and why downward currency manipulation is the surest way to play to win in the economic competitiveness game.
http://www.theguildng.com/why-strong-currency-is-atiku-abubakars-agenda/

By Sports Desk

Serena Williams has called off her Grand Slam comeback, pulling out of the French Open because of a chest injury before she was supposed to play Maria Sharapova.

Williams announced her withdrawal at a news conference at Roland Garros on Monday.

Williams’ voice quivered as she said she can’t serve because of a problem with her tight pectoral muscle.

She and Sharapova were scheduled to play a fourth-round match Monday.

The 36-year-old 23-time grand slam champion, playing in her first slam since the 2017 Australian Open after maternity leave, told a news conference in Paris she had a pectoral muscle injury.

“Unfortunately I’m having some issues with my pec muscle. Right now I can’t actually serve so it’s kind of hard to play,” she said.

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