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NIGERIA'S ongoing election campaign comes to the UK big time next week with two of the presidential candidates and the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu all speaking at Chatham House in London.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] We are once again having an election with no policies and nobody is saying anything 

[2] The African Development Bank once said Nigeria has an annual infrastructural deficit of $100bn. Were we serious about fixing our country, plugging this gap would have become a national obsession 

SUPER Eagles playmaker Alex Iwobi will undergo a late fitness test at Goodison Park tomorrow morning to see if he is he will be fit to play a part in this weekend's league game against Southampton where he will lock horns with compatriot Joe Aribo.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Buying private jets when we do not have an aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) in Nigeria is just an act of economic sabotage as all is does is drain foreign exchange and enrich foreign aircraft manufacturers 

[2] Buying generators when you could install solar panels on your roof is not only economically damaging but an environmental crime 

FORMER presidential adviser and one-time director-general of the Peter Obi's campaign Dr Doyin Okupe is expected to resume his journey to the UK for medical treatment later this week after security  agents released him following his recent arrest at Lagos airport.

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele has flown back into the country quietly last night after being abroad for several weeks amid rumours that Department of State Service (DSS) operatives were planning to arrest him.

SUPER Falcons defender Ashleigh Plumptre has marked her return from injury with a bang helping her club Leicester City secure a comprehensive win in her first match back as they hammered Sunderland 5-0 away.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We will build a united Socialist Republic of West Africa with a population of 1bn people

[2] This super power will have a gross domestic product of $20trn and an annual budget of about $5trn

[3] English and French were its two official languages ala Canada

[4] This nation will have a military made up of 10m standing troops

MEN of the Plateau State Police Command have arrested Jos clergyman Pastor Albarka Bitrus Sukuya on suspicion of staging his own kidnapping and demanding a ransom from members of his congregation.

HEALTH minister Dr Osagie Ehanire has revealed that the federal government is setting up a mechanism to engage Nigerian doctors and nurses in the diaspora and connect them with universities and hospitals across the country in a bid to combat the current brain drain.