Jamilu Collins returns to training with Cardiff City after nine month absence due to knee injury

SUPER Eagles leftback Jamilu Collins has returned to training with English Championship side Cardiff City ahead of the forthcoming 2023/24 season after a nine-month absence due to a knee injury.

 

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Is it just me but I am yet to hear Tinubu utter one word about the Niger Delta. Let us see if he can come up with a clean-up policy and tap into the potential of the mangrove forest

Ayo Akinfe

[1] With oil theft now the debate in the Niger Delta, we appear to have forgotten that we still have polluted creaks to clean up. I once suggested releasing oil-eating algae into the environment to get rid of some of the oil slicks

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Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria opposes plans to create Christian education council

CATHOLIC Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) officials have rejected plans for a proposed  bill to establish the National Council of Christian Education arguing that the suggestion violates sections 10 and 42(3) of Nigeria’s constitution.

 

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Peter Obi adds his voice to the growing condemnation of Tinubu's 124-car motorcade

FORMER Anambra State governor and Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has added his voice to the condemnation of the recent show of vanity that saw President Bola Tinubu drive through Lagos with a 124-car motorcade.

 

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Arsenal sign scholarship contract with Nigeria-eligible teenage left fullback Camron Ismail

ENGLISH Premier league giants Arsenal and Nigerian teenage fullback Camron Ismail have just signed a scholarship making him the third potential Super Eagle to become one of their scholars for the 2023/24 season.

 

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I hope the next group to pay a visit to Aso Rock are the South East Governors Forum who present an ambitious retail-to-manufacturing conversation programme to President Tinubu

Ayo Akinfe

[1] It is no secret that the governors of Nigeria’s five states in the southeast geo-political zone are presiding over the plight of Nigeria’s most industrious group of people. However, this energy and ingenuity is being wasted in the highly-limited retail sector, when if unleashed into manufacturing could fetch Nigeria five or six manufacturing conglomerates

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First Bank introduces Nigeria's first humanoid robot at its Lagos Digital Experience Centre

FIRST Bank of Nigeria has launched a humanoid robot at its Lagos Digital Experience Centre (DXC) in what is the country's first digitised banking operation that cuts out the need for human input.

 

Located on Adetokunbo Ademola Street in Victoria Island, the DXC branch is at the forefront of the bank's high tech drive. First Bank spokeswoman Folake Ani-Mumuney, said the robot was among the phased configuration of the bank’s state-of-the-art digitally led self-service branch.

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Buhari flies into London to escape from the large number of visitors trooping to Daura

FORMER President Muhammadu Buhari had flown out of Nigeria and located to London in the UK saying he needed to get out of his home town Daura because the large number of visitors he was receiving did not allow him to rest.

 

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Brentford and Bournemouth both step up quests to sign Bright Osayi-Samuel from Fenerbahce

ENGLISH Premier League sides Brentford and Bournemouth have both expressed an interest in signing Super Eagles fullback Bright Osayi-Samuel from Turkish side Fenerbahce during the current transfer window.

 

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With Sallah coinciding with the arrival of new governments in Nigeria, I want to see the Northern States Governors Forum adopt this poverty alleviation template

Ayo Akinfe

[1] By 2027, every one of our 19-member states must generate enough revenue to at least meet its running costs

[2] Every state in northern Nigeria must be twinned with a state in the south as part of our education policy. By 2028, every northern state must match its southern twin in terms of literacy, secondary school leavers, graduates and post-graduates

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