FORMER Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai has withdrawn his nomination to serve as a minister in the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu after senators rejected his initial presentation over security concerns.

FORMER Nigerian presidential candidate Professor Pat Utomi has revealed that he is currently involved in a bitter struggle with cancer which has restricted his public engagements of late.

Regarded as one of Nigeria's most brilliant economists, Utomi is a professor of political economy and management. Earlier today, he expert revealed that a biopsy he had in 2022 showed he tested positive for cancer

FORMER Kwara State governor and ex-senate president Senator Bukola Saraki is locked in what looks like a fierce two-horse race along with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign spokesman Segun Sowunmi to become the next chairman of the party.

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