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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

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.

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.

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.