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NIGERIA will not be allowed to participate in the women's 4x100 relay event at forthcoming World Athletics Championships taking place in Oregon next month after Blessing Okagbare got an additional one year doping ban that has affected the entire team.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] An annual 30% tax of the value of every private jet in the country

[2] A 50% tithe tax compelling all clergymen to hand over half of all they receive in offerings

[3] A Dubai party tax that levies 50% of the value of any party Nigerians throw abroad

[4] An Owambe tax which attracts a flat fee of around N50,000 per party

FEDERAL Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) officials have been set a target of generating an annual turnover of N1trn ($2.4bn) as part of their mandate to address the chronic housing shortage in the country.

OYO State-born Justice Olukayode Ariwoola is to be sworn-in as the  new chief justice of Nigeria later today following the sudden resignation of the incumbent Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad who said he could no longer continue due to health challenges.

MOTHERS and grandmothers who have lived in the UK for decades are among dozens of people facing deportation to Nigeria and Ghana aboard a controversial Home Office charter flight that will leave the country on Wednesday.

NIGERIA Immigration Service (NIS) officials have released additional information about the David Nwamini the purported organ donor at the centre of the controversy involving former deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu showing that he is no minor but 21 years old.

ENGLISH Premier League side West Ham have stepped up talks with Spanish La Liga side Villarreal over Nigerian-born attacker Arnaut Danjuma in a bid to sign him up ahead of the 2022/23 season.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As a people, we are too passionate about our religious faiths. An overwhelming number of Nigerians want to go to heaven when they die but are not willing to lay down their lives for the country

[2] Nigerians are closely attached to their ethnic groups and traditional rulers. Thus acts as an impediment to integration

BRITAIN'S University of Lincoln has banned Nigeria's former deputy senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu from undertaking any further duties as a visiting professor of the institution in  response to his arrest for suspected organ harvesting.

ENGLISH Premier League side Nottingham Forest are looking to build on their recent signing of Nigerian striker Taiwo Awoniyi with the capturing of another Super Eagle in the form of Glasgow Rangers midfielder Joe Aribo.