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Manchester United send scouts to watch Gent's Nigerian teenage sensation Gift Orban

ENGLISH Premier League giants Manchester United have sent scouts to watch Belgian club gent's Nigerian striking sensation Gift Orban with a view to signing him during the forthcoming summer transfer window.

 

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If we are serious about getting out of our economic rut, incoming ambassadors need to be given foreign direct investment targets which must be met unfailingly

Ayo Akinfe

[1] No matter how you look at it, Nigeria has no choice other than to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) if she wants to expand and diversify her economy

[2] In 2022, total FDI into Nigeria only added up to a paltry $3.3bn according to the World Bank. Even at it’s all time high in 2008, Nigerian FDI only totalled $4.7bn

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Another one of the Chibok schoolgirls escapes from Boko Haram custody after nine years

NIGERIAN Army commanders operating in the northeast of the country where Boko Haram Islamists are waging an insurgency against the government have reported the rescuing of another of the Chibok schoolgirls who was abducted nine years ago in 2014.

 

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US set to impose visa restrictions on politicians involved in Nigerian election rigging

WASHINGTON has announced that it has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on Nigerian politicians who helped undermine the democratic process during the 2023 elections by participating in and facilitating rigging.

 

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Seun Kuti hires Femi Falana to defend him as he hands himself into the Lagos State Police Command

AFROBEAT musician Seun Kuti has vowed to defend himself rigorously in court when charged by the Lagos State Police Command after he surrendered himself at the force headquarters today un response to being declared wanted.

 

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Buhari joins in congratulating Hilda Baci after she sets new world record in cooking

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Nigeria's 27-year-old gourmet chef Hilda Bassey Effiong popularly known as Hilda Baci for making history by breaking the world record for the longest hours of cooking.

 

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Spurs consider launching audacious summer bid for Crystal Palace playmaker Ebere Eze

ENGLISH Premier League giants Tottenham Hotspurs are considering launching an audacious bid for Crystal Palace mercurial playmaker of Nigerian extraction Eberechi Eze during the forthcoming summer transfer window.

 

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I am surprised that despite all his foreign travels Tinubu has not held private meetings with either Kemi Badenoch or Wale Adeyemo to discuss the vexed matter of FDI

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Unprecedented problems require unprecedented solutions. When you are faced with challenges that look insurmountable, that is when it is time to think outside the box sand do the unthinkable. I hope Bola Tinubu realise that this is the position in which he finds himself

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Nigerian Immigration Service prosecutes up to 80 of its men over passport extorting racket

ABOUT 80 officers and men of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) have gone on trial for indulging in the collection of illegal fees from members of the public for the issuance of new passports and renewal of old ones on a crackdown on fraud in the agency.

 

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Can the governors of Anambra and Delta states please visit Istanbul to see how the Turks are building tunnels under the Straits of Bosporus and replicate it on the River Niger

Ayo Akinfe

[1] While we are celebrating the second River Niger bridge, do my people know they Turkey is about to construct the third tunnel connecting the European and Asian sides of Istanbul, officially named the Great Istanbul Tunnel by the government

[2] This new tunnel will be put into service in 2028. It will have the capacity to serve 1.3m passengers on a daily basis

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