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ARSENAL manager Mikel Arteta is considering launching a summer transfer bid for Crystal Palace's Nigeria-eligible playmaker Michael Olise as he looks to beef up his squad ahead of a busy forthcoming season that will involve Champions League football.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We keep debating this issue of inadequate electricity supply in Nigeria but always come up short. It is not actually rocket science as our problems can be broken down into two. In the first place, we need about 50,000MW but only generate 7,000MW and to make matters worse, we can only distribute 4,000MW of this. All we have to do is address both issues

PRESIDENT Tayyip Erdoğan has become the latest world leader to congratulate Nigeria's president-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu calling for a mutual cooperation and partnership that would further the friendly relationship between the two countries.

FORMER Anambra State governor and Nigerian Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi was recently detained and harassed by immigration officers at Heathrow Airport in the UK who were investigating impersonation allegations

SCOTTISH Premier League giants Glasgow Rangers have signed up Nigerian teenage sensation Thompson Ishaka after he successfully underwent trials at the club agreeing a two-year contract with him.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] I read the latest KPMG report on Nigeria yesterday and it made grim reading. It said among other things that unemployment is expected to hit 40% this year as about 5m Nigerians join the workforce annually and we are not creating the jobs for them

ACCOUNTING giant KPMG has revealed that Nigeria's unemployment rate rose to 37% during the course of 2022 and will further rise to 40.6% this year due to the continuing inflow of job seekers into the job market.

NIGERIAN medical bodies said they do not believe that the recent restrictions imposed by the UK health authorities will succeed in reducing the number of medical professionals travelling to the country in search of greener pastures.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has approved a request made by the trade and industry minister Adeniyi Adebayo to create an Ekiti Knowledge Zone under ambitious plans to accelerate the growth of the digital industry in the state.

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has declared May 30 a day for a sit-at-home protest across the southeast geo-political zone to mark the declaration of Biafran independence on that date in 1967.