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NIGERIA has opened 1 1.5km bridge linking Etung Local Government Area in Cross River State with neighbouring Cameroon as part of a programme to enhance trade and boost commerce between the two countries.

YORUBA Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo has finally been transferred to a more humane detention facility and been given access to medical attention  after a Benin Republic high court accepted a plea from his lawyers that his civil rights be respected.

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has expressed fears that its leader Nnamdi Kanu have been killed in detention after the Department of State Services (DSS) failed to produce him in court yesterday.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] A Yaoundé-Douala-Calabar-Ikom railway line that will transport Cameroonian cocoa to the processing plant at Ikom in Cross River State

[2] A Lomé-Cotonou-Badagry-Apapa-Warri-Port Harcourt railway line that will link up West Africa’s coastal ports

[3] An Abuja-Niamey-Ouagadougou-Bamako-Conakry-Dakar railway line that will open up the Ecowas region to finished Nigerian goods

DOZENS of indigenes of Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State are currently lying critically ill in hospital after a brutal attack by gunmen suspected to be Fulani cattle herdsmen in the early hours of today.

GERMANY has agreed to return over 7,000 historical artefacts plundered from Ancient Benin Kingdom to Nigeria by October this year as part of the ongoing programme to reverse the colonial plundering of Africa.

SEVERAL members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) clad in Jewish attire have been arrested outside the federal high court in Abuja where they went to attend the ongoing trial of the their leader Nnamdi Kanu.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is due to arrive in London later this evening to participate in a global education summit on financing called Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and to touch base with his medical doctors.

YORUBA monarchs in the Republic of Benin have resolved to write to President  Patrice Talon asking him to intervene in the ongoing Sunday Adeyemo saga by asking the country's security agencies to release him immediately.

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] How do we get Nigeria to produce 50m tonnes of steel a year?

[2] How do we produce inter-city trains that run at 200km per hour?

[3] How do we build five deep sea ports along our 853km Atlantic coastline

[4] How do we generate about 260,000MW of electricity like say Indonesia and South Africa?

[5] How do we increase our gross domestic product to $1trn?