SUPER Falcons head coach Justin Madugu and the team's goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie have both been nominated as candidates for honours at the 2025 Ballon d'Or awards taking place later this year at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on September 22.

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[1] Seek to get a Nigerian flag planted on the moon

[2] Get a Nigerian to climb Mount Everest and plant our flag there

[3] Organise another Festac festival

[4] Announce the launch of a dinosaur Jurassic programme with the recreation of real live animals

[5] Open the world’s largest cattle ranch in Borno State

[6] Open the world’s largest solar farm in Yobe State

FORMER England striker Ian Wright has pledged to step into the ongoing Ademola Lookman transfer saga and help his former club Arsenal sign the Super Eagles winger ahead of the forthcoming 2025/26 season.

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[1] 10m tonnes of steel

[2] 20m pre-paid electricity metres

[3] 5m electricity transformers

[4] 20m mobile phone handsets

[5] 2m automobiles must be assembled locally

[6] 10m flatscreen TV sets

[7] 10m tonnes of maize

[8] 5m tonnes of sugar

[9] 10 tonnes of rice

[10] 50m pairs of footwear

[11] 1,000 railway carriages

[12] 20bn kg of milk

[13] 2m tonnes of beef

SUPER Eagles midfielder Wilfred Ndidi is all set to join Turkish giants Besiktas after his representatives and the club agreed on the details of a three-year contract following Leicester City's acceptance of a €9.5m for the anchorman.

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[1] Once a year, 500 diasporans will be invited to Abuja to rub minds with government ministers on investment, job creation and infrastructure development

[2] The presidents of the major diaspora organisations in four or five key countries worldwide will be granted observers status at Nigerian Governors' Forum meetings

FORMER Oyo State governor Rasheed Ladoja has been nominated by the kingmakers body the Olubadan-in-Council to be the next monarch of Ibadanland to replace Oba Owolabi Olakulehin who passed away on July 7.

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[1] Let us not delude ourselves, Britain's elite still regards Nigeria as a nation of savages where people have only recently climbed down from tree tops. We need an aggressive enlightenment strategy to get them to start viewing Nigerians as equal human beings and subsequently an investment destination

ENGLISH Championship side Leicester City have rejected a €7m bid for Super Eagles midfielder Wilfred Ndidi from Turkish giants Besistas branding the offer derisory and well below their valuation of the midfielder.

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[1] A national rail network will be constructed across the country over the next 20 years linking all 36 states, employing no less than 10m people. This will also involve the manufacturing of carriages, tracks, signal boxes, equipment, etc