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Liverpool offer Napoli two strikers in exchange for Osimhen as striker joins teams mates in Morocco

ENGLISH Premier League giants Liverpool have offered Italian side Napoli two strikers in both Federico Chiesa and Darwin Nunez in exchange for Super Eagles front man Victor Osimhen in an audacious deal they hope to pull off.

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I would love to see President Bola Tinubu woo a Chinese container manufacturer to come and open shop in Nigeria as part of the government’s blue economy programme

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Freight containers are a reusable transport and storage unit for moving products and raw materials between locations or countries. There are about 17 million intermodal containers in the world at the moment

[2] About 85% of the world’s containers are manufactured in China

[3] Do you know that 90% of African imports and exports are expedited by cargo ships. Egypt’s Port Said alone handles about 3m containers a year

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Spurs set their sights on Ademola Lookman during the forthcoming January transfer window

ENGLISH Premier League giants Tottenham Hotspurs have emerged as a firm favourite to sign-up Super Eagles winger Ademola Lookman during the forthcoming January transfer window.

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Even if it is just Nigerian steel alone President Tinubu manages to convince President Trump to invest in, it will make a huge difference to our economy and the quest for stability

Ayo Akinfe

[1] No nation can industrialise without steel and by my calculations, Nigeria needs an annual production target of about 35m tonnes of steel. This will match Brazilian output and put us on the same trajectory as sister developing nations like Mexico, Iran, Taiwan, South Korea and Vietnam

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Chelle names 24-man squad for World Cup play-offs with Okoye and Ejuke returning

SUPER Eagles head coach Eric Chelle has named a 24-am squad for the forthcoming World Cup play-offs taking place later this month recalling returnee goalkeeper Maduka Okoye and also bringing back creative playmaker Chidera Ejuke.

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One of the best ways for Nigeria to respond to all this talk about religious divisions and insecurity is to create wealth with the National Assembly passing a Nigerian Power Bill 2025

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Six regional powers grids will be established across the country, with each responsible for providing electricity to the states within its domain

[2] A national grid will operate on top of this serving as a supplement whenever there are shortages in any geo-political zone

[3] Zonal grids will be free to sell excess power generated to other zones or export it as a commercial product

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Nigerian law professor Grace Ononiwu named as new head of UK's Crown Prosecution Service

NIGERIAN-born academic Professor Grace Chidozie Ononiwu has been named as the new director-general of the UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) making her the first black African to occupy the position.

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Falcons shot-stopper Chiamaka nominated for Best Fifa Women’s Goalkeeper Award

SUPER Falcons and Brighton & Hove Albion shot stopper Chiamaka Nnadozie has been shortlisted for the 2025 Best Fifa Women’s Goalkeeper Award in a further acknowledgement of her abilities after recently being voted the fourth best keeper in the world.

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If 1.4bn Chinese citizens and 1.45bn Indians can forge common identities, there is no excuse for 200m Nigerians not to bury their ethnic differences and fuse as one people. Let our National Assembly pass this Nigerian Anti-Tribal Bill 2025

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As from January 1 2026, your state of birth will be your state of origin

[2] As from January 1 2026, anyone who has lived in a state for three years and paid taxes there automatically becomes an indigene

[3] Pidgin English will from henceforth be adopted as our national lingua franca. It will be taught as a university course and academics will start work on a Pidgin English dictionary immediately

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Blackburn's Alebiosu submits eligibility documents as Chelle looks to replace Aina and Agu

BLACKBURN Rovers rightback Ryan Alebiosu has begun the process of acquiring international eligibility to play for Nigeria in the hope that he will become eligible for selection ahead of the 2026 World Cup.

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