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GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State has justified his recent meeting with the Labour Party presidential aspirant former Anambra State governor Peter Obi saying he would receive any candidate irrespective of the person's political affiliation.

NIGERIAN exports are set to benefit from a new trading scheme in the United Kingdom that will cut price tariffs on hundreds of everyday products imported into the country from the beginning of next year.

PEOPLE Democratic Party (PDP) officials have set up a peace meeting to address the rift between former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State with its first meeting earmarked to hold in Abuja this Friday.

NIGER Republic has denied receiving 10 vehicles from Nigeria following the recent outrage after it emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari spent N1.15bn ($2.74m) of Nigeria's money on buses which were donated to the country's northern neighbour.

NOTTINGHAM Forest have handed newly-signed Super Eagles winger Emmanuel Dennis the number 25 jersey ahead of this weekend's match away to Everton following the completion of his £20m move from Championship side Watford.

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NIGERIAN diasporans who pre-registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) but have been unable to return home to complete the process have left the agency short of about 7m voters on its electoral register.

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike's ongoing spat with his own Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) appears to be intensifying after he recently angrily declared that certain delegates from Rivers State ganged up against him at the recent national convention in Abuja.

NIGERIA'S Bank of Industry (BoI) has successfully completed a landmark €1bn guaranteed senior loan facility to further enhance its capacity to deliver on its mandate in line with the government's economic diversification agenda.

NIGERIAN women living in Scotland can now access free sanitary products after the country became the first nation on earth to take on period poverty by offering tampons and other female products to anyone in need of them.