TWO of the co-defendants arraigned before a federal high court in Abuja today alongside Assistant Police Commissioner Abba Kyari on drug running charges pleaded guilty to importing 21.35kg of cocaine.

Mr Kyari and six others charged with dealing in 17.55kg of cocaine by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Today, the case was heard in court and Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwanne, both pleaded guilty to importing cocaine into Nigeria.

FORMER Super Eagles striker Benedict Akwuegbu has been listed by Anglia Ruskin University in the UK as being among its top achievers in recognition of the work he has put in as part of his mental health nurse degree course.

Akwuegbu, affectionately called the Austrian Bomber by his fans, enrolled in the university two years ago. He studied health social care in his first year before switching to his current mental health nursing course.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Battle tanks 
[2] Assault rifles 
[3] Multi-purpose machine guns 
[4] Rocket-propelled grenades 
[5] Attack helicopters 
[6] Fighter jets 
[7] Bombers 
[8] Aircraft carriers 
[9] Submarines 
[10] Artillery pieces 

SAUDI Arabia has lifted its ban on direct flights to Nigeria and 16 other African nations which was introduced on December 8 last year in response to the discovery of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in South Africa.

SEVERAL Nigerians living in Ukraine have rejected the federal government’s offer to return to the country insisting that it was more dangerous to return home than to live in their war-torn adopted country.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We shall move towards the amalgamation of all our nation states, with the aim of creating one indivisible Socialist Republic of West Africa with its capital in Abuja

[2] We want to see the elimination of landlocked states in Africa

[3] We regard the presence of foreign military bases in Africa as an act of hostility against the Republic of West Africa

[4] Foreign naval ships patrolling African waters will be regarded as an act of aggression

YORUBA nation agitator Chief Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho is hoping to be released on bail this weekend by the authorities in the Republic of Benin in Cotonou so he can get medical attention.

FORMER president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has been officially inducted as a member of pan-cultural Igbo umbrella body Ohaneze Ndigbo who presented him with a cake to mark the occasion on his 85th birthday yesterday.

[1] Steel manufacturers 
[2] Railway engineers 
[3] Wheat farmers 
[4] Food processors
[5] Covid-19 scientists 
[6] Electric automobile plant engineers 
[7] Clean energy engineers 
[8] Gas plant experts 
[9] Oil refinery engineers 
[10] Consumer goods manufacturers

After World War Two, there was an almighty scramble for the best Nazi brains. The US, Argentina and Australia got the best of them.

MEMBERS of Nigeria's House of Representatives have rejected a bill that will bar public officials from sending their children and wards to schools abroad without the approval of the education minister.