Ebere Eze reached a deal with Pinnick to feature for Nigeria if the Eagles qualified for World Cup

CRYSTAL Palace playmaker Ebere Eze had reached a conditional agreement with the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) last year to feature for the Super Eagles on the condition that the team qualified for the 2022 World Cup.

 

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Were I a presidential candidate I would have unveiled this Nigerian Valentines Day policy today 

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[1] Any Nigerian couple who marry from outside their geo-political zone will get a federal government marriage allowance of N50,000. This is to foster togetherness 

[2] All Nigerian girls aged 10 to 21 will be able to get sanitary towels free of charge from their local clinics 

[3] As from today, marriage to a minor under 18 will be considered statutory rape, even if no intercourse takes place 

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Tinubu's former deputy Femi Pedro says there is nothing wrong with Asiwaju's health

FORMER Lagos State deputy governor Otunba Femi Pedro has attributed the incessant gaffs by his former boss Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on the presidential campaign trail to the pressures of the exercise adding that there is nothing wrong with his health.

 

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Nigeria’s new president is going to have no choice other than to introduce a punitive and unpopular tax regime to raise revenue 


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[1] First of all the Federal Inland Revenue Service (Firs) should set an income tax revenue target of $50bn by 2030

[2] Firs should also forward proposals to the National Assembly introducing a regime whereby no public official will receive more than four times the national minimum wage

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Wabara says Atiku will release Nnamdi Kanu within 100 days of taking office as president

FORMER vice president and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will release Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu if he gets elected according to one-time senate president Senator Adolphus Wabara.

 

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I expect our next president to use his presence at King Charles’ coronation to organise a mega Anglo-Nigerian summit aimed at attracting payback foreign direct investment 

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[1] In the run-up to The World War Two, Lord Beaverbrook , Britain’s minister of aircraft production had a unique foreign trade polic. He believed Britain should focus all its trade with its colonies like India, Nigeria, Jamaica, etc. He was of the view that trade should be kept within the empire. Sadly, trade with the empire was never really given a try 

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Peter Obi emerges as favourite to win Nigeria's presidency in recent Bloomberg digital poll

FORMER Anambra State governor and Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has emerged as the leading contender in a Bloomberg poll on Nigeria's forthcoming presidential election due to take place on February 25.

 

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I am still waiting for one of Nigeria’s presidential candidates to outline a coherent foreign policy 

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[1] On July 11 1960, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger Republic all declared their independence from France. It was the most defining moment in modern West Africa if you ask me 

[2] That year 1960 was the one in which most African nations achieved independence. If we want to be honest about it, after World War Two, Britain and France were no longer interested in their empires, so decided to let Africans run their own affairs

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International Crisis Group warns that naira and fuel scarcity could mar Nigerian elections

ELECTION observer group the International Crisis Group (ICG) has expressed fears that Nigeria's forthcoming polls may be marred by a combination of factors including growing insecurity and the ongoing fuel and currency scarcity.

 

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Maybe our first step in the quest for economic emancipation should be to write our own African holy book like the Torah, Bible and Koran. It would give us the self-belief to start manufacturing and initiate self-reliance

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Central tenants of African Bible/Koran

[1] In the beginning there was a void. God created dinosaurs in the Nile Valley but because they were not procreating enough, he destroyed them in a meteoric attack and wiped them out

[2] God then decided he would create man in their place and make him the master of the universe. He thus created a special garden at a place called The Valley of Kings in modern day Egypt

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