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[1] We vote for candidates who drop money rather than those with clear manifestos

[2] We object to "outsiders" investing in our communities when if we embraced them it would create jobs

[3] When we are ill we go to churches and mosques rather than seek medical attention

[4] Rather than fill in forms and allow the system work, we look for shortcuts by ringing high-placed people we know to help

SCOTTISH champions Glasgow Rangers have joined the race to sign Nigerian midfielder Alhassan Yusuf from Swedish side IFK Gothenburg ahead of the forthcoming 2021/22 season.

Yusuf, 20, who joined Gothenburg from FC Hearts Nigeria three years ago, was voted Young Player of the Year in the Swedish top flight last season. English Premier League new boys Brentford are also being linked with Yusuf, who only has one year left on his contract at the Gamla Ullevi Stadium in Sweden.

PAN Niger Delta Forum (Pandef) leader Chief Edwin Clark has rejected the recently-passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) saying the new piece of legislation only gave oil host communities 3% of the revenue accrued against their requested 10%.

NIGERIAN security operatives have been issued with a directive by the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) to always inform their members before embarking on any major operation in their states as part of a new security arrangement.

SIX Nigerians have been handed jail sentences by an Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after their conviction for funding terrorist sect Boko Haram was upheld.

REGIONAL body the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has rejected the position of the Southern Governors Forum that the south should produce the next president of Nigeria come 2023 saying there should be no automatic rotation.

Ayo Akinfe 

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Once a year, 500 diasporans will be invited to Abuja for a serious brain storming session with the government and draw up investment plans

[2] The presidents of the major diaspora organisations in four or five key countries will be granted observers status at Nigerian Governors' Forum meetings

[3] The Nigerian Diaspora Commission will set investment targets for the various diaspora communities

NIGERIA'S former ambassador to Thailand Olufunso Olumoko has said he does not see how the UK can help Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu despite the fact that he holds a British passport.

LAGOS State Police Command has vehemently denied allegations that a shot fired by one of its men killed a young girl at yesterday's Yoruba Nation rally in Ojota saying that the 14-year was stabbed to death.