Recently the AU have been talking about a single currency, while I like the fact that they have raised the topic, I think the AU should just plan for such only looking ahead , and when I say I say ahead, I mean 20-30years ahead. Many reasons have lead me to the above conclusion, some of which is as a result of studying the EURO currency reasons it has succeeded and about to fail (possibly).

1. Conflict-resolution Mechanism: Does AU have a strong voice in resolving in-house conflicts between countries, and within regions in an African country? 
2. Rallying point: some African still perceive themselves as superior, this can't be solve though. 
3. Language barriers: this is an issue for EURO zone countries with a handful of languages, talk-less of AFRICA with over how many countries. Greek and Portugal had underlying issues the EU was not aware of in its context. And bringing it back home for example (Angola may have issues that only the locals may understand it as it grows, the Angolan government may present it in another way to the AU. the AU may not comprehend in full. until it becomes a full blown out crisis like Greece now.
4. Trust: Mutual trust is expensive in Africa, I have not yet seen anything that will make me believe otherwise. This will spill into AU single currency decisions. 
5. Control: AU has Egypt, SA, Nigeria, as the big 3. Their population, GDP contribution may feed the other 40+ African nations. Will other countries agree that these countries takes control of such a currency? while this is feasible; just as it is in the EURO zone, any problem from the other smaller nations will affect the GDP distribution of the big3 internally.
6. The Missing African Mind: So many differences in the mentality among African nations, with the situation in SA (Xenophobia); I am aware of the ideological/philosophical aspect of a single currency; As a continent primarily filled with Black people and even whites who are proud Africans, only embracing this can forge a Single currency that will work. 
7. Interest Rates: Interest Rates will never be equal, again using the EURO currency zone as a case-study, interest rates never balanced up, either too high for some or low. Resulting to job loss in some areas, reduced economic activities. I don't think the case for Africa will be different, especially as African nations are indebted via numerous Aid deals from EU/US. 
8. Transportation/Mobility: This is my main point, without which I’d say “AU just forget the it”. AFRICA is not CONNECTED. West Africa needs connection to north, South Africa, East Africa. Connected Flight between national carries should increase. Inter-Country trade routes, Educational exchange programs between universities. E.g. the cost to have a vacation to visit 7 European countries might be higher than the cost to visit 3 African countries apart (Research Needed Here). 

With the above not tackled, why the single currency? Is it just a copy-cat thing'y or well thought of as a medium to drain some other nations? Lastly, AU’s response to African issues are alarming, it took them 8 months to respond to Ebola, we allow the Europeans, Asians and Americans to take the lead in such issues, thereby building up their leverage on the continent and increasing their ability to drain us when they need. Please forgive me to say I do not think AU has imposed herself as powerful/industrious enough to sustain a single currency amongst over 40nations, Though I wish they will ASAP

This article is an amateur summary of the state of things.

Now the we have a New President in Nigeria, Nigerians are making their request, some interesting, some funny, as usual, Nigerians finds everything funny. We can take humour in the serious issues facing our country Welcome Sir

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The various reactions when Disney announced Frozen 2. On the 12th of March 2015

This is a summary highlighting one of the numerous ways, the rapid innovation of technology is fighting against the Law. All expressed here is written by Noah Adjonyo and thereby His views drawn out from various sources some of which are not listed.

Introduction

Cloud Computing has revolutionised the way in which data is been processed, transacted upon, stored and accessed, all of which can happen in a very big, fast, robust and dynamic way within and across jurisdictions.

The EU, UK and the United States have their own customary data protection law each acting alien to each other at some stage.

While the UK has a specific data protection laws that task cloud data owners to protect their law the EU Data protection act attempts to establish both the term “Controller” and “Processor” where the first could be likened to be  Google as a search giant, while the later Google as a Cloud Service provider. Now the issue is that depending on the incident companies can choose to identify themselves as controllers or processors just as it fits them best, hence, Stricter data protection rules.

 Main Player's role in Data protection

Years ago, after which the USA has seen a rapid increase in Cloud Computing investment and development, the French government invested a huge amount of money for France’s Cloud computing development in-house and called on the EU to do likewise so as not to be held hostage to US companies who has saturated the Cloud computing. Market Adoption of cloud computing has increased first from the US over the years and likewise recently in Europe as some years ago saw reasons to invest, albeit, late and this presents its challenges.

Complication of Data Protection rules

One incident that sparked even further review and intensification of the EU data law was, when a in Spain, a user found on the web, content about him and a case that has been resolved years ago, He filed to the Spanish authority to rake down the content, but as Google attempted to pull away the Spanish authority referred to the EU Justice and her data protection law, to verify if Google can be pinned down to erase such data. This incident saw the rise of another new law last year themed “Right to be forgotten”. As much as this is good, the law in a broader scope will add much more complexity to European adoption of CC, though the law is subject to;

·         Burden of proof:

·         Individual case by case review:-Every case will be judged on its own individual merit, meaning request

·         Delivering notice to 3^rd partied about content that has to be erased.

It will still have to face many huddles when it involves Data stored across servers outside the EU.

One of the content of the EU Data protection rules includes a 24hour security breach notification that must be sent to the client. The call for alarm here is that in most cases, you usually do not know if you have been compromised or not.

Applicability of the EU Data Protection Act

Before I go on to explain let me place some background info. There is a US law called Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA), this act binds any US company carrying out business beyond the borders of USA to the USA’s corruption charges. Canada has charged her companies not to store and CC data on US cloud as it will be vulnerable to USA Patriot Act.

Now similarly, the EU has arranged their law to act such (FCPA concept) that it will be applicable all over EU in oneness. This means that both EU’s Right to be forgotten, Right to Data portability, and the key points of the act will be applicable to an EU company involved with a Data stored in a Non-EU state. The USA has a similar concept but more liberal.

While the in its own context, is still very difficult to implement EU-wide, another huge case arises when it involves an EU company’s data stored in another state e.g the US and vice versa like the case below:

• Last year 2014, the USA issued a search warrant to Microsoft (MS) to retrieve data of an email of an individual stored in an MS Data centre in Ireland. Though there is an EU-US Safe Haven agreement, MS refused to allow the US access the documents, after much late last year the Irish Government stepped up to issue an Amicus Brief against the USA. The Bone of contention here is;
• US needs to facilitate an investigation,
• MicrosoftS needs to protect her client’s data to gain respect,
• Irish Government sees the USA as stepping out of their boundary.
• There is a standoff between microsoft, Ireland and the US.

From the above,  it is discovered that the complexity of the slow-paced laws in numerous states will cause even more issue for SMEs and businesses who wants to take advantage of CC. As immensely affected by the Globalised flow of data, a company having numerous Content Delivery Networks across the world which can cause data to move between servers in the speed of light, these laws been drafted in isolation will not be very slow, less effective and could cause loss of money before a deal is reached. There have to be a common agreement that will be accessed and understood when it comes to data protection.

 
The good news is that many of other Tech companies are rallying behind Microsoft (see briefs here), the main issue still remains, Every now and then Gartner publishes her quadrants, hype cycles and many statistics spelling rapid progress of Technology. eg. from the time taken for the EU's Justice department to deal with issue that alerted  "Right To be Forgotten" to be dealth with, over 4 years, new technologies have arrived and some have caused major disruption. So if it takes over 4 years to deal with an issue cause by data protection, it can take a multiple of that to deal with another technology that may spawn up soon, thanks goodness Drone laws are been put into effect.

The current rift between Microsft and the US' Government in respect to data protection will not be easily solved even when it is solved, the possibilities of such occuring again is high, as the EU is pursuing a different scope of Data protection so the US and the UK is not to mention other big players like China, Russia. Shold data protection laws be singularised or treated differently as it may soon be proven data and information may have no citizenship on its own

What Internet of Everthing entails

Source: Cisco

Major infrastructural & institutional decay and lack of selfless development of already brilliantly drafted road maps (Frameworks) means we cannot expect the #Nigerian government to respond to incidents normally in this 21st Century that is driven my data and Information Technology The Federal Ministry of Communication Technology - Nigeria. Over 200 Girls are missing and yet the Government seems to have no clue on where to look who to accuse, or any sting of hope. After having to many annoying days reading about this incident i am now relating the issue to the minutest section of our country that is always neglected.

I can think of several Plans, Bills, #MoU's #Frameworks and Policies or what ever the name given to them, like;

• **Techlaunchpad
• **Open Data initiative, (Twitter account here)
• **National Policy for Information Technology
• **National Broadband Plan, 
• **National Addressing Policy, 
• **National Identification Number (www.nimc.gov.ng), 
• **Nigeria Industrial Revolution Plan,
• **Planning, Research & Statistics,

 amongst others which can drive development very very fast and also, are one of those little insignificant things that needs to be properly initiated and delivered before we can now begin to talk about a country heading towards a 3% increase in security.
How can a security outfit respond an emergency call, where either Network problem will first prevent the callers from getting through or the receivers from acknowledging the call, how can they get to the location when addresses and naming of streets are just a piece of Joke.
Now take another instance, Thursday 1st May was workers day and Wednesday was the last day before public holiday, so many individuals would have had their money stuck in the ATM machine and have filed a Card Dispute form, Most big Banks like #GTbank, #Diamond, #Firstbank are all partakers in this flawed system, while they have found a way to mitigate it, it still remains a fact that big financial institutions like that are slow to herald a Fibre Optics cable penetration to at-least each and every city in a state as this will reduce the Network lag the makes banking system in #Nigeria fail in excellence of service.
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How can various security outfits like, Police, Military and SSS collaborate in sharing information effectively without altering it for one's personal gain where all these outfits uses completely different systems which are not open for collaboration or complete outdated or manual.

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Example;
Websites like Open Data for Nigeria   which has been developed, but, if you take a look at the number of article sighting that the purpose for the website is to provide numerous information about Nigeria   but i the number of article in it tells that the people in-charge just used it as a medium to collect money from the Government, because such a website was supposed to contain lots or information about all the ministries in the country. This means some people have just made millions or Naira without anyone asking a question!!! Cases like this happens daily in Nigeria that dilutes to good made by some few in the country making most of her institutions and infrastructure to stay in a non-palatable state. That's why they say ' you can make a lot of money in Nigeria, this is one of the ways, collect a project do it and leave it to decay, "who cares! by the way i've already made my money out of it"

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In conclusion, i do not think our military, security outfits or government are equipped for non-conventional warfare, or fight like such as #BokoHaram or any individual group that kills in the name of Bokoharam or for political point. In this case the only solution is for us citizens to have a structured approach to demand for Accountability and progress in any plan, roadmap or framework, and also Physically DEMAND FOR JUSTICE. The system is failing or has failed, i don't know, because it seems for each of those plans initiated by the senates or Ministries in Nigeria are Profits for individual people instead of something substantial.

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The anger in one's heart will not allow my words to come  out arranged, however, we the young people should START ASKING QUESTIONS, Start asking your Local government chairman about the money allocated to the local government for that month, ASK YOUR House or reps members, ask your chiefs, lets leave the Jonathan alone for now as most of out villages is/are very far from Aso rock, Start asking the contractors building the road, when it will be completed, START ASKING  your university professors what research they have come up with ever since that is or will be useful for Nigeria and not just striking.

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The truth remains that if we ever in the slightest chance want our Nigeria to be Good one day, we must START ASKING QUESTIONS, we must DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY and JUSTICE every day every time and everywhere. we must STOP BEING a PASSIVE citizen, the MORE the PASSIVE Nigerian there are, the more deep we plunge into #chaos , the more Nigerians we have who ask questions the brighter our light of hope shines.


Now to the current issue the questions should be,

1. Where are our girls?
2. Why has boko haram been so powerful than the Nigerian Military?
3. From which State, had our Girls kidnapped?
4. What has the Local Government done since?
5. What has the State Government done since?
6. What has the Federal Government done since?
7. What has the Nigerian Military Done?
8. Have the SSS acquired any important information that might lead us to the girls?
9. Why is Jonathan at fault?
10. Is Jonathan at fault?
11. How does Boko haram acquire their weapons?
12. Do they communicate through mobile phones?
13. Are they Nigerians? if not how do they get into the country?
14. Who Sponsors boko haram?
15. How many Nigerians have been killed by a Boko Haram related incident over the last 5 years?
16. Who is Shekau?   **is he Dead? ** When was he Killed? ** 

If half of these questions are answered, then we might have solved our problems half way.