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KANO clergyman Sheik Abduljabar Nasiru Kabara has been sentenced to death by hanging after a Kano Magistrates Court found him guilty of blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed and Islam.

FORMER deputy senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of being responsible for his recent travails that have led to his detention in the UK on modern day slavery charges.

ENGLISH Premier league giants Leeds United are stepping up plans to sign Super Eagles defender Ola Aina as a leftback during the forthcoming January transfer window as a replacement for Spanish international Junior Firpo.

For most of the current season, Firpo, 26, has been out injured but now that he has returned to full fitness, his form has been way short of what it was last season.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] It is common knowledge that Nigeria is the world’s largest cassava producer with an annual crop of about 60m tonnes accounting for some 20% of global output

NIGERIA'S National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has urged members of the public to go and get National Identification Numbers (Nin) because possessing one is now mandatory to access all government services.

POINT of sale terminal (PoS) operators and Lagos human rights lawyer Femi Falana have warned that they will drag the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to court if it fails to rescind the new cash withdrawal policy limiting over-the-counter cash withdrawals.

SECESSIOINIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has advised the British high commissioner to Nigeria to distance herself from the country's politics and political processes in the run-up to next year's elections.

ENGLISH Championship side Birmingham City has stepped up plans to sign Super Eagles striker Josh Maja from French side Bordeaux during the forthcoming January transfer window as the club pushes for promotion next season.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Has it occurred to most of us that Abuja does not have any understandable and beneficial bilateral trade agreements with any other nation on earth. Everything is done on a case-by-case basis

Ayo Akinfe

[1] On August 20 1837, Euston railway station opened in London as the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway. It was London's first intercity railway station. Nigeria needs to learn from this and come up with a coherent railway policy