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Akeredolu's spokesman concedes that he is ill as the spat between his wife and mistress continues

GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has acknowledged that he is currently facing several health challenges but has said there is no cause for alarm as the furore over his wellbeing escalated into a full0blown spat between his wife and mistress.

 

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Teenager Tobi Adeyemo scores on his home debut for Watford helping to secure three points

NIGERIAN teenage striker Tobi Adeyemo made it a goalscoring home debut for Watford over the weekend when he came off the bench in the second half in a league match against Blackpool and scored the opener in a 2-0 victory.

 

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Fifa asked every nation to name a stadium after Pele but I would like Nigeria’s presidential candidates to go further and initiate a process asking local governments to create a town called Lidice 

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Lidice is a village in the Czech Republic where all its male inhabitants were executed in 1942 by the Nazis as a reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich 

[2] All 173 men from the village who were over 15 years of age were executed on 10 June 1942. A further 11 men from the village who were not present at the time were later arrested and executed soon afterwards, along with several others who were already under arrest

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Peter Obi uses his Chatham House speech to condemn the current practise of borrowing for consumption

FORMER Anambra State governor and Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has lashed out at the financial record of the current government saying that it has mismanaged the economy by borrowing huge sums just to pay concurrent costs like paying salaries.

 

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Ipob praises Governor Soludo for calling on federal government to release Nnamdi Kanu

GOVERNOR Charles Soludo of Anambra State has been praised by the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) over his recent call for the unconditional release of their leader Nnamdi Kanu who has been in detention since 2021.

 

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Rotherham's Hakeem Odoffin named in English Football League's Team of the Week

NIGERIAN midfielder Hakeem Odoffin has been selected to be a part of this weekend's English Football League Team of the Week following his scintillating performance for his club Rotherham on Saturday.

 

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Were someone like Obafemi Awolowo standing in next month’s presidential election, he would have plans to build a monument like this to not only revive tourism by also provide a feel good feeling

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Brazil’s Christ the Redeemer Statue
[2] India’s Taj Mahal
[3] Germany’s Brandenburg Gate
[4] San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge
[5] Australia’s Sydney Opera House
[6] Egypt’s Great Pyramid is Giza
[7] New York’s Statue of Liberty
[8] London’s Big Ben
[9] France’s Eiffel Tower
[10] The Great Wall of China

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I sincerely hope that all these presidential candidates coming to Chatham House this week will unveil a comprehensive Nigerian healthcare plan as part of their manifestos 

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Elected officials and the members of their immediate families are barred from going overseas for medical treatment

[2] Exceptions may be made in the cases of rare specialist care. In such cases, affected officials need to write to the National Assembly seeking permission for such trips

[3] Any public official who needs specialist overseas care more than once during a four year tenure must vacate their office

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Dora Akunyili's daughter named as chief medical officer of Jersey City Medical Center

FORMER communications minister Professor Dora Akunyili’s Ijeoma has been named as the new chief medical officer of the Jersey City Medical Center in the US becoming the first ever African-American appointed to the position.

 

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Tinubu joins Obi in declaring that he will scrap Nigeria's petrol subsidy if elected president

FORMER Lagos State governor and All Progressives Congress (APC)  presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has vowed to remove the subsidy on petrol if elected as Nigeria's president in next month's elections.

 

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