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AFENIFERE leader Chief Ayo Adebanjo has called for members of the Amotekun Security Corps to be well armed ion the future pointing that it they were, the recent Owo massacre in which about 40 people were slaughtered in a church would have been averted.

NIGERIA'S Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) has given all of the country's 18 registered political parties eight days to submit the names of their running mates following the recent conclusion of the presidential primaries.

SUPER Eagles striker Victor Osimhen is closing in on the scoring tally of the likes of Nwankwo Kanu and Austin Okocha after scoring his 11th international goal yesterday in Nigeria's laboured 2-1 victory over the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone.

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] Across Nigeria today, insecurity is a booming industry in which private armies of robbers, kidnappers, terrorists, hoodlums, etc, have taken over the country. So lucrative is this trade that it is the fastest growing sector of the economy

NIGERIA'S Seplat Energy and its founding chairman Dr Ambrose Orjiako has been highly praised by the London Stock Exchange (LSE) this week for its role in trying to drive the Nigerian clean energy market.

NIGERIA'S spending on motorcycle imports ballooned by 22% during the first quarter of 2022 compared with the last three months of 2021 as a total of N74.6bn ($180m) was spent on purchases up from N61.25bn the previous quarter.

FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua’s rematch against Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk is likely to be held on 20 August somewhere in the Middle East with Saudi Arabia touted as a most likely venue.

FORMER Lagos State governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is to meet with the All Progressive Congress's (APC) incumbent governors over the next 24 hours and task them with the assignment of picking his running mate as the deadline for submission looms.

FORMER Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) deputy governor Professor Kingsley Moghalu has suffered a shock setback in his bid to become Nigeria's next president after he was defeated in the primaries of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) yesterday.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report in which it warned that Nigeria’s debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio was growing at an alarming rate. Although still within reason as the federal government’s external debt of $40bn is still less than 10% of GDP, the way it is growing gives cause for concern. It is only a matter of time before it gets out of control