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PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has been challenged by over 30 civil society groups to unveil his government's anti-corruption blueprint and also to offer a pledge that he will not consider any person with impending cases for any political appointment.

GOVERNOR Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has come under a fierce attack from local civil society group the Northern Emancipation Network who have pilloried him for living in Abuja at a time when the state is being ravaged by armed bandits.

NEW Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers is considering making an audacious bid for his former Leicester City protoge Wilfred Ndidi in the hope that he will be able to lure the midfielder to Scotland during the summer transfer window.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] First of all, the federal government needs to make a statement on the activities of armed Fulani herdsmen, who operated with such impunity under President Buhari. They were no longer just armed robbery but something of an industry taking over the country’s motorways

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu will be flying to France tomorrow to attend the New Global Financial Pact summit in Paris in what will be his first appearance at an international gathering since becoming Nigeria' leader on May 29.

FORMER Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike has revealed that he narrowly survived an assassination attempt in 2018 when members of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) poisoned him and he had be flown to Lebanon for emergency treatment.

ENGLISH Premier League giants Liverpool are interested in signing Denmark youth international of Nigerian extraction Patrick Dorgu from Italian side Leece during the forthcoming summer transfer window.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] One huge problem the UK will face now she is outside the European Union (EU) is that she will no longer enjoy duty-free supply of fruits and vegetables from the Mediterranean region. Trust the Spanish, Italians, Greeks, French and Portuguese, they will demand full market price for all the tropical fruits they sell to the UK from now on

MANCHESTER City have beaten Tottenham Hotspur and Nottingham Forest in the race to sign English-born Nigerian midfielder Sam Tinubu who is set to sign his first formal contract with the club this summer4.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Is there any agency in Nigeria dealing with the issue of silt in our rivers?

[2] Across the far northern tip of Nigeria, farmland is being eroded by desert encroachment

[3] Large parts of southeast Nigeria are made up of soft clay soil not suitable for agriculture and prone to erosion

[4] If we dredged just the rivers Niger and Benue alone and packaged this silt, we could use it to turn both of these badly affected areas into lush farmland