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EMBATTLED Afrobeat musician Seun Kuti has been crowned the general overseer of his detention centre by inmates at the Investigations and Intelligence Department of the Lagos State Police Command where he is being detained for slapping a policeman.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Egypt’s Giza Pyramid contains a bust of Pharaoh Khufu, the second monarch of the Fourth Dynasty. He built the most lasting legacy in Ancient Egypt. In Nigeria, monuments built by Tafawa Balewa have collapsed but Pharaoh Khufu’s legacy has lasted nearly 50,000 years

NIGERIA'S Labour Party is facing the prospect of not having any state governor in the forthcoming administration due to take office on May 29 after a Kano federal high court voided the election of Dr Alex Otti as the Abia State governor-elect.

ABOUT 65 world leaders have been invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Nigeria's president-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu later this month on May 29 in what is expected to be a grand event with representation from around the globe.

NIGERIAN Football Federation (MFF) officials are stepping up their interest in Arsenal's FA Youth Cup winner Omotara Junaid with a view to inviting her to the Super Falcons camp to prevent England securing her services.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We have flogged the issue of cattle ranches to death and called for the construction of several mega ones across northern Nigeria. Tinubu has to pledge to send a bill to the National Assembly on day one, making open grazing illegal

[2] Nigeria’s six biggest states by landmass will each be home to a mega ranch of at least 50,000 square kilometres. Borno, Niger, Taraba, Yobe, Bauchi and Kaduna all have the land to spare for this

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) officials have given all commercial banks and other financial institutions a 30-day deadline within which to close accounts who owners do not have a bank verification number (BVN).

NIGERIA'S ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) appears to backtracking on plans to impose a set of leaders on the National Assembly with signs that it may declare a free contest for principal officers of both the senate and House of Representatives.

PLANS to float the proposed new national carrier Nigeria Air before the end of President Muhammadu Buhari's tenure on May 29  appear to be in serious jeopardy as negotiations between aviation ministry officials and Ethiopian Airlines have not yielded fruit.

EMBATTLED chairman of one of the factions of Nigeria's Labour Party Lamidi Apapa has denied receiving a sum of N500m ($1m) as a bribe in order to scuttle the party's ongoing case before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja.