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About 30 passengers and railway staff abducted as kidnappers hijack train in Edo State

NIGERIA'S railway network has become the subject of another high profile terrorist attack after armed kidnappers attacked the Igueben train sub-station in Edo State and abducted 30 passengers and Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) staff.

 

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If you ask me, it is totally unacceptable that the world’s largest black nation with a population of 200m is not on this exclusive list. Our new sports minister should be given until 2030 to resolve this

Ayo Akinfe 

1930 - Uruguay 
1934 - Italy 
1938 - Italy 
1950 - Uruguay 
1954 - Germany 
1958 - Brazil 
1962 - Brazil 
1966 - England 
1970 - Brazil 
1974 - Germany 
1978 - Argentina 
1982 - Italy 
1986 - Argentina 
1990 - Germany 
1994 - Brazil 
1998 - France 
2002 - Brazil 
2006 - Italy 
2010 - Spain 
2014 - Germany 
2018 - France 
2022 - Argentina

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CBN instructs commercial banks to stop paying out new naira notes over the counter

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) officials have instructed commercial banks across the nation not to pay out the new naira mores to customers over the counter so that they have enough to load their automated teller machines (ATM) machines with.

 

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Iwobi's dad reveals that his son will only be out of action for two weeks with his ankle injury

ALEX Iwobi's father has dismissed fears that his son will face a lengthy time on the sidelines after picking up an ankle injury yesterday at Old Trafford when Everton faced Manchester United pointing out that he should only be out for about two weeks.

 

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Nigeria’s presidential candidates should find out how Germany went from total ruins in 1945 to becoming a global economic power again within a decade

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] At the end of World War Two in 1945, Germany was basically one huge bomb crater. All her cities lay in ruins. However, by 1954, just nine years later, the country had fully recovered and believe it it not, West Germany actuality won the Fifa World Cup

[2] Most shockingly, Germany managed to develop herself into the world’s third largest economy behind the US and Japan 

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Operators in Nigeria's oil and gas industry given seven days to reveal their true owners

LEASE and licence holders operating in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector have been given seven days by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC)  to disclose the real owners of their companies or face sanctions.

 

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Buhari finally agrees to appear at 10 of Tinubu's campaign rallies between now and Feb 18

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has announced that he will personally attend about 10 rallies of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu the presidential candidate of his All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of next month's elections.

 

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West Ham join the ranks of English Premier League sides eyeing Terem Moffi this January

ENGLISH Premier League giants West Ham have joined Southampton and Aston Villa in the chase for Super Eagles striker Terem Moffi as they are keen to sign him up during the forthcoming January transfer window.

 

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Next month’s election is just the passing of a lot if hot air unless the parties and their presidential candidates can tell us how they will get Nigeria on this global manufacturing list 

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] China – 28.7% Global Manufacturing Output - $4trn

[2] United States – 16.8% Global Manufacturing Output - $2.3trn

[3] Japan – 7.5% Global Manufacturing Output - $1trn

[4]Germany – 5.3% Global Manufacturing Output - $806bn

[5] South Korea – 3% Global Manufacturing Output - $416bn

[6] India – 3% Global Manufacturing Output - $412bn

[7] Italy – 2.1% Global Manufacturing Output - $314bn

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Buhari tasks security services with enduing oil theft by time he leaves office on May 29

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has tasked Nigeria's security forces with the challenge of eradicating the current scourge of oil theft plaguing the country by the time his administration leaves office on May 29 this year.

 

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