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.

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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[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

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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[1] Before releasing Nnamdi, I would announce the creation of a South East Industrial Directorate (SEID) with a mandate to turn the geo-political zone into one huge manufacturing hub. Kind of similar to Germany’s Ruhr Valley

[2] I would then release Nnamdi Kanu from detention and appoint him as the chief executive of this new agency. I would obviously also drop all charges against him and decriminalise Ipob

NIGERIA Immigration Service (Nis) officials have announced plans to come to the assistance of diasporans by launching a single travel emergency passport (Step) that will enable them to travel if their passports are lost or expired.

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[1] Washington should support Nigeria’s quest to build a global superpower in the middle of the African continent that will serve as a homeland for negroid people the world over. It will be the spiritual and ancestral home of all negroes

[2] This secular and multi-religious rainbow nation will merge as many African countries as possible into one giant with an economy that has a gross domestic product (GDP) of at least $15trn and an annual budget of at least $2trn

NIGERIAN student Naomi Olayinka has emerged as the top candidate in World in English as a Second Language of the 2024 Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) examinations whose results have just been announced.

NIGERIA-eligible teenage striker Andre Harriman-Annous could make his debut for Arsenal in the Uefa Champions League tonight as he has been named in the squad to face Czech champions Slavia Prague at the Sinobo Stadium.

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[1] A bill will be passed by the National Assembly compelling intelligence agencies to publish details of any politician, monarch or publicly exposed person on whom they have information that he could be a sponsor of terrorists, bandits, kidnappers or hoodlums

[2] Herdsmen group Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria and all its splinter groups will be declared terrorist organisations