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NIGERIA has added an extra 12.2m voters to its electoral roll following the end of the recent registration exercise conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) that saw numbers rise to 96.2m from 84m.

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) leaders are planning to appoint Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State as the director-general of its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) in a bid to appease northern Christians who are particularly incensed about its Muslim-Muslim ticket.

NIGERIA'S men's table tennis team will have to settle for bronze at the ongoing Commonwealth Games taking place in Birmingham in the UK after they were beaten by India in the semi finals yesterday.

FORMER vice president and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has assured Britain that he will enhance the bilateral relationship between both nations if elected into office next year.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Motorcycle racing - In Nigeria, we have turned the motorcycle into something else. Terrorists, kidnappers, armed robbers, etc now use them to terrorise the population. Motorcycles are even used for cross-border rice smuggling and the Okada motorcycle taxi is now the main form of transportation in many parts of Nigeria 

IGBO politicians fleeing the growing violence in Abuja have been warned by the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) not to return to the southeast geo-political zone unless they bring Nnamdi Kanu along with them.

NIGERIAN youngster George Imafidon has emerged as the overall winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year Award after judges adjudged him to be the best at an awards ceremony over the weekend.

STATE-owned energy conglomerate the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) remitted a paltry sum of $2.7bn into the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) accounts between January and June this year due to the downturn in the global oil economy.

DEPARTMENT of State Services (DSS) operatives have arrested a Boko Haram undercover agent sent to the Ogun State capital Abeokuta to spy on military facilities with a view to having them bombed.

NIGERIA's medal haul at the ongoing Commonwealth Games taking place in Birmingham in the United Kingdom rose to five this  morning after weightlifter Folashade Lawal secured the country's second gold in the 59kg event.