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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

GOVERNOR Ademola Adeleke of Osun State was caught up in a spat at the Oshogbo prayer ground today after he and former senate spokesman Senator Ajibola Basiru had an altercation over seating arrangements.

NIGERIAN Afrobeat musician David Adeleke popularly known as Davido is in the news for the wrong reasons again after an American woman who identified herself as Anita Brown has gone on social media to reveal that she is pregnant for the superstar.