PROVIDUS Bank is looking to open accounts for at least 300 UK diasporans when it storms the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK's (Canuk) gala dinner in London on December 16 this year.

ABOUT 20 Super Eagles players have arrived at the team camp at Portimao in Portugal ahead of the team's double header against Saudi Arabia and Mozambique starting off with Friday's game against the three times Asian Cup champions.

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[1] Nigeria will offer every child free tuition right up until the end of secondary school

[2] Nigeria will spend 15% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on education every year for the next decade

[3] State governments are obliged to provide free uniforms in all public primary and secondary schools

[4] All public schools are obliged to offer one free school meal for all state primary and secondary school pupils

NIGERIAN air passengers will now get paid compensation for flight delays and cancellations under new plans being introduced by aviation minster Festus Keyamo that will fine airlines and use the money to compensate their customers.

NIGERIA could cash in on the ongoing heightening of tension in the Middle East as the latest spay between Israel and Palestine has raised fears of crude oil supply shortages leading to international prices rises.

FORMER England youth international Omorinsola Babajide has become the latest player to complete a Fifa switch to Nigeria and has subsequently been invited to the Super Falcons camp ahead of their forthcoming Olympic qualifiers against Ethiopia.

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[1] Ending the current insecurity epidemic. There are 6m weapons in Nigeria at the moment and criminals are having a field day. This needs urgent addressing

[2] Putting out all the ethnic fires currently raging across the country. Ethnic mistrust is now such an issue, it virtually impossible to have any serious national debate on any subject without attracting suspicion

SUPER Eagles head coach Jose Peseiro has called up three replacements for the injured England based trio who have had to pull out of this month's friendlies against Saudi Arabia and Mozambique due to injuries.

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[1] Henri Mattise is a French sculptor, author and scholar. He was one of the artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the 20th century

NIGERIANS living in the Manchester area will now be able to do their biometric verification for the passports locally thanks to the launch of a passport intervention programme unveiled by the Nigerian Immigration Service and the Nigeria High Commission.