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GOVERNOR Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State has said he no longer believes in Ohanaeze Ndigbo after the body failed to stand up for Igbos during the recent presidential primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

FIVE policemen providing security for singer Damini Ogulu popularly known as Burna Boy have been detained by the Lagos State police commissioner’s special squad after they shot two revellers at Club Cubana on Victoria Island in Lagos State.

NEWLY promoted English Premier League side Fulham are planning to offer Portuguese champions  €12m for the services of Super Eagles fullback Zaidu Sanusi in the hope of luring him to Craven Cottage during the summer transfer window.

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Today is June 12, Nigeria's Democracy Day, so I am going to use the occasion to present a document to Nigeria's leading presidential candidates. . On June 7 in 1776, Richard Lee from Virginia moved the US Declaration of Independence in Congress. How about someone moves our Declaration of Economic Independence in the National Assembly on Monday and it gets adopted into law?

Here are the kind of things I would like to see in this document:

CHRISTIAN Association of Nigeria (Can) officials have warned Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to both refrain from picking Muslim running mates in the run-up to the 2023 presidential elections.

PAN-Igbo socio-cultural group Ohanaeze Ndigbo's youth wing has lambasted the five governors of the southeast geo-political zone over the woeful showing of Igbo candidates in the recent presidential primaries of Nigeria's two leading political parties.

LEICESTER City have offered Nigerian-born teenage goalkeeper Chituru Odunze a new long-term contract ahead of the expiration of his current deal which expires on June 30 in the hope of getting him to commit his long-term future to the club.

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[1] Now that the presidential primaries are over, I think it is time to discuss this matter of economic growth. Nigeria is forecast to have a mere 2% gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate over the coming years, which is wholly inadequate

THREE men have been sentenced to death by hanging or firing squad by an Ondo State High Court after they were found guilty of the murder of Mrs Funke Olakunri the daughter of Afenifere leader Pa Reuben Fasoranti three years ago.

BRITAIN has agreed to provide £1m worth of funding support to Nigeria's National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in 2022 with additional funding over the next three years as part of a programme to assist the body in its fight against narcotics.