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OHANAEZE Ndigbo has chided the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar saying he should start preparing for the 2027 elections as he will get lose next year as penance for him betraying Dr Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.

SUPER Eagles head coach Jose Peseiro could be on his way out soon as Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) officials have gone cold on initiating contract extension talks with him following the dismal performances of the team lately.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Personally, I have nothing against polygamy as long as it is entered into freely by consenting adults with no coercion. What I have an issue with is young girls being effectively sold by their families to older men for economic reasons

DOYIN Okupe has been expelled from the Nigerian Labour Party despite being the director-general of its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) and a spokesman for its presidential candidate former Anambra State governor Peter Obi.

REMITTANCES by the Nigerian diaspora during the course of 2022 is estimated to total about $21bn representing a 7.5% year-on-year increase according to statistics just published by the World Bank.

PLANS are being finalised to open the Edo Museum of West African Art in the capital Benin City to house the largest collection of Benin bronze works ever assembled as the ongoing campaign to get all artefacts looted during the colonial period gathers pace.

NINE out of 10 Nigerian medical and dental consultants with less than five years experience plan to leave the country for greener pastures any time soon according to research just published by the Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (MDCAN).

LEICESTER City manager Brendan Rodgers has included teenage goalkeeper of Nigerian descent Kelechi Chibueze in the club's squad that is travelling to Qatar for a warm weather training camp in Abu Dhabi

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[1] From henceforth, the Nigerian Delta Development Corporation (NDDC) will become a quasi-government body with 50% of its directors coming from the private sector

[2] The NDDC will have 11 public sector directors, one from each of its 10 member states and one representing the federal government. They will sit on the board along with 11 private sector directors

[3] These NDDC directors will elect a chairman who will run the corporation as a private concern

NIGERIA-eligible teenage fullback Derrick Abu has been promoted to the Chelsea first team by manager Graham Potter ahead of the resumption of the English Premier League when the World Cup ends to make up for fatigued players who may need a rest.