CONGRESSMEN in the US House of Representatives will hold an open hearing on Thursday November to examine President Donald Trump’s recent redesignation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC).

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[1] Elected officials and the members of their immediate families are barred from going overseas for medical treatment

[2] Exceptions may be made in the cases of rare specialist care. In such cases, affected officials need to write to the National Assembly seeking permission for such trips

[3] Any public official who needs specialist overseas care more than once during a four year tenure must vacate their office

NIGERIAN football officials have upped their game big time and offered the Super Eagles a bumper incentive package for tonight's World Cup play-off against the Democratic Republic of Congo promising them $55,000 for every goal scored.

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has decided to intervene in the ongoing communal violence rocking Plateau State by sending his emissary Dr Abiodun Essiet to go there and initiate a dialogue between local Christian and Muslim leaders.

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[1] 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] A socialist secular nation with a population of 1bn people where power is devolved to the federating units

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

NIGERIAN midfielder Uche Christantus could be on his way out of the English Premier League after just three months as Crystal Palace who signed him on deadline day this September are now looking to offload him during the January transfer window.

FIRST choice Super Eagles goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali is waiting on the decision of the team's doctors to know whether he will be cleared to feature in tomorrow's World Cup play-off against the Leopards of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

ARMED terrorists believed to be members of the dreaded Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) have carried out a daring raid in northeast Nigeria in an attack that resulted in the death of several soldiers and the abduction of a brigade commander.

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[1] Then called Zaire, the Congolese were the first sub-Saharan African team to qualify for the World Cup in 1974. Fifa gave Africa its first ever fully-fledged slot they year and Zaire clinched it by winning the 1974 Nations Cup, which held in Egypt, beating Zambia in the final

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I would give Wike the authority to consider selling the refinery to a steel company at a giveaway price. The idea behind this would be to convert the facility into a manufacturing plant. Just imagine how Tata Steel, Corus Steel or Nippon Steel would love the gift of a readymade plant