SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) his disassociated itself from the self-proclaimed successor to its leader Nnamdi Kanu Simon Ekpa claiming he is now using the Eastern Security Network (ESN) to defraud people.

NEWLY-promoted English Premier League side Luton Town have assigned team numbers to the two Nigeria-eligible players in their squad Gabriel Osho and Elijah Adebayo indicating that both of them are likely to see some action during the forthcoming season.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] President Tinubu should insist that a memorial be erected on the Burma/India border to honour the men of the West African Frontier Force and the East African Frontier Force who died there during World War Two. It was African troops who prevented the Japanese from invading India at great personal cost. Nobody ever acknowledges this

MEMBERS of Nigeria's senate will received special payments to enable them enjoy their summer holidays after senate president Senator Godswill Akpabio promised them that the clerk of the National Assembly will send cash into their personal bank accounts for this.

NIGERIA'S chief of army staff Lt General Taoreed Lagbaja has assured doctors currently working in the diaspora willing to return to the country that the Nigerian Army is ready to absorb them into its military hospitals.

ENGLISH Championship side Watford have stepped up moves to sign Nigeria's Flying Eagles anchorman Daniel Daga having already got him to London with a view to sealing a deal with him and giving him a medical.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Build an African giant of a nation with a landmass of about 3m square kilometres. This will include about 800,000 sq kilometres of Sahara Desert

[2] We are looking at a socialist secular nation with a population of 1bn people where power is devolved to the federating units

[3] An economic giant with a gross domestic product of about $30trn putting it in sharp competition with China, India, the US and a United States of Europe

JONNY Baxter has been named as the new British deputy high commissioner in Lagos taking over from Ben Llewellyn-Jones who recently concluded his three year sojourn in Nigeria and will be returning to London.

Under the British diplomatic structure in Nigeria, the high commissioner resides in the capital Abuja, while the deputy high commissioner lives in the commercial capital Lagos. Mr Baxter is described as an experienced diplomat who has worked in different parts of the world.

MEMBERS of the new military junta in Niger Republic have appointed former economy minister Lamine Zeine as the country’s new prime minister as they defy the rest of the world and refuse to back down.

ENGLAND winger Lauren James has apologised for stamping on Super Falcons defender Michelle Alozie  during yesterday's World Cup match promising to learn from the incident which earned her a red card.