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LEON Balogun has re-joined Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers from English Championship side Queens Park Rangers (QPR) on a one-year deal become the club's seventh signing as it prepares for the new season.

[1] For starters, I hope Tinubu is aware of the fact that Africa as a continent only accounts for 4% of world trade and 1% of global manufacturing. Yet, she accounts for 18% of humanity’s population. Clearly, this is not sustainable, so an aggressive Nigerian foreign policy is required to correct the imbalance

FORMER Imo State governor Senator Rochas Okorocha has been cleared of all corruption charges filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) high court.

MEMBERS of Nigeria's House of Representatives are demanding an upward review of their salaries and allowances following the recent removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government despite the fact that they are among the highest paid lawmakers in the world.

SUPER Falcons defender Ashleigh Plumptre is to leave the Leicester City Women's team following the end of the season on a shock development that has seen her and the club part ways just as she heads for the World Cup with Nigeria.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] When you look at Nigeria with a population of about 200m, making her the world’s seventh most populous nation in a planet made up of about 8bn people, it is crystal clear that we are an under-performing parasitic economy. A huge liability to the rest of humanity

DEPARTMENT of State Services (DSS) officials have been given one week by a Federal Capital Territory high court to produce former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele or set him free.

PAN-cultural Igbo organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo has placed a $500,000 bounty on Simon Ekpa the self-proclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) claiming that he has declared war on the southeast geo-political zone.

SUPER Eagles defender Calvin Bassey has declared that he is not interested in coming to the English Premier League next season with Brighton and would rather stay and fight for a shirt at Ajax of Amsterdam.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We will aim for annual double digit economic growth between 2023 and 2030. If we enjoy 10% growth every year for a decade, Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP) will increase to about $1trn from the current $400bn

[2] Given that we have a very young population and are forecast to become one the world's five most populous nations by 2020, job creation is simply a must. We pledge to create 20m manufacturing jobs by 2030.