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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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[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

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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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

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's own All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged him to obey the recent order made by Nigeria's Supreme Court ruling that the federal government should abandon plans to end the use of old naira notes on February 10.

FORMER deputy senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu has appeared in a London court and denied allegations that he offered money to a prospective kidney donor to save his sick daughter Sonia.

CRYSTAL Palace playmaker Michael Olise has said he might consider playing for Nigeria's national team the Super Eagles at senior level if he does not get a call-up from France who he has represented as a junior.

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[1] This is a picture of the chairmen on the three major US automobile companies and their directors outside the White House. It was taken in December 1941 after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. These chairman had been summoned by President Franklin Roosevelt 

NIGERIA'S Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) has filed an appeal against the judgement of the Election Petition Tribunal that nullified the recent victory of Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke  in the July 16 2022 gubernatorial polls.

CONSERVATIVE Members of Parliament are tipping Kemi Badenoch as the most likely person to take over from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as party leader following her recent promotion in a mini-reshuffle.