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INTERIOR minister Rauf Aregbesola has been accused by the youth wing of All Progressives Congress (APC)  in Osun State of working against the party's presidential candidate in next year's elections Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

ENGLISH Premier League giants Arsenal have sent Nigeria-eligible striker Folarin Balogun out on a season-long loan to French Le Championet side Stade de Reims for the duration of the 2002/03 campaign.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Last month, a European Union delegation visited Abuja and said they want Nigeria to replace Russia as their main gas supplier. We should have gone to that meeting equipped with a programme of action that involved building pipelines, signing long term supply contracts and a masterplan that would guarantee at least $50bn generated in income annually 

NIGERIAN Muyiwa Oki has been elected as the new president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) in a sweeping victory that saw him voted in as the candidate representing architectural workers and the profession's grassroots.

FORMER president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has lamented the fact that his fish farming business is suffering from the high cost of diesel in the country and the constant need to provide his own electricity.

BRITAIN'S General Medical Council (GMC) which licenses and maintains the official register of medical practitioners in the UK has licensed at least 266 Nigerian doctors during the course of June and July this year.

NIGERIAN lawyer Hafsah Dauda has won the United Kingdom’s Chevening Scholarship Award that will enable her to do a Master’s degree in Psychology in the UK at the University of Aberdeen.

ENGLISH Championship side Cardiff City have signed Nigeria-eligible striker Kion Etete from Premier League clubside Tottenham Hotspurs in a £500,000 deal that includes a buyback clause.

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[1] Do you know that it was on August 3 1936 that Jesse Owens won the 100 metres dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe at the Berlin Olympics, right in front of Adolf Hitler

[2] It was on August 3 1960 that Niger Republic, our northern neighbours gained independence from France

[3] On this day in 1958, thee world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, became the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole

POULTRY feed prices have soared by as much as 168% across Nigeria over the last three years according to statistics published by the Centre for Journalism and Innovation Development (CJID).