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NIGERIA has been listed by the World Bank as one of the three countries on the planet with the highest rate of electricity deficit alongside Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia as well as being among the top 20 countries that lacks access to clean fuel.

INFORMATION minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed has labelled people who destroy public property and infrastructure as terrorists and declared that the federal government will clamp down heavily on them from henceforth.

NIGERIAN youngster Steve Ezeonu has become a councillor in the US after winning the  city council run-off elections for Grand Pierre in the state of Texas with 51.2% of the vote against 48.8% for his opponent.

REGIONAL body the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has declared that it will not stand in the way of Nigeria's southeast geo-political zone of the Igbos decided they want to secede from the federation despite the fact that it is not in support of balkanising the country.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Gashaka State shall be established along the Nigerian border with Cameroon with its capital at Gembu. This state will be known as Nigeria's wildlife state and shall be covered by special animals rights provisions

[2] Animals will take priority over human beings in Gashaka State. Whenever there is a conflict, human settlements will be relocated, leaving the animals to roam freely under wild conditions

NIGERIAN Exchange officials are cautiously optimistic that foreign portfolio investors (PFI) are gradually regaining confidence on the economy and may soon start to return now that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is over.

DIASPORA remittances to low and middle income countries fell by 1.6% to $540bn last year from $548bn as a result of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic with Nigeria being mainly responsible for a 28% drop witnessed across Africa.

GOVERNORS from across Nigeria's southwest geo-political zone have asked the commanders of regional security outfit Amotekun in all six states to operate jointly as from now on in response to the latest herdsmen attack in Oyo State.

MORE trouble is brewing across the southeast geo-political zone after Nigeria's Department for State Security (DSS) invited fiery clergyman Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka for questioning raising the prospect of youth unrest.

NIGERIA is thought to be losing over ($6m) N2bn a day as a result of the Twitter shutdown brought about by the federal government banning the social media platform from operating in the country.