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UNITED Nations (UN) officials have warned that as many as 19m people are facing the risk of food shortages in Nigeria this year as a result of the recent flooding that has destroyed up to 440,000 hectares of farmland across the country.

FORMER Lagos State governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has pledged to pass new laws that will mandate the government to offer at least 35% of all political appointments to women if he gets elected president.

NIGERIA'S federal government has launched an appeal against the October 13 court judgement ordering it to release the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu saying that he is a flight risk and would abscond if set free.

NEW Chelsea manager Graham Potter is said to be planning an audacious bid for Nigeria's Victor Osimhen during the forthcoming summer transfer window as he looks for a long term replacement for striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

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[1] At the moment, Nigeria is the UK’s fastest growing export market. We want to see this grow dramatically with an annual foreign direct investment (FDI) target of $1bn for British investors in Nigeria

NIGERIAN Medical Association (NMA) officials have published fresh figures showing that here are only 24,000 actively licensed medical doctors in the country reducing the physician to patient ratio to the perilously low figure of one to 10,000.

GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State has hinted that he may decide to back former Anambra State governor Peter Obi in next year's presidential elections pointing out that he cannot publicly support him now because they are in different parties.

PAN-Igbo cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to name the newly-completed Second Niger Bridge after  the former Ikemba of Nnewi Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

BRITAIN'S international trade secretary Kemi Badenoch is considering running for prime minister following today's sudden resignation of Liz Truss and the announcement by the Conservative Party that it will elect a new leader by September 28.

OFFICIALS representing small clubs in the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) have continued their ongoing tour of UK football sides with a visit to English League One clubside Burton Albion yesterday.