NIGERIA'S main seaport at Apapa in Lagos State has been offered respite from the terrible gridlock that has characterised its operations for the last 20 or so years after the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) revealed it has connected it by rail.

PRESIDENT Joe Biden has appointed another Nigerian to a prominent position in his administration naming Enoh Ebong as the new acting director of the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA).

Ayo Akinfe

(1) For starters, the United Nations average policemen to citizens is 300 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants. In Nigeria, the figure is a dismal 300 policemen to 350,000 citizens, so massive recruitment is needed

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's official spokesman Mallam Garba Shehu has dismissed suggestions that the next inspector-general of police must come from the southeast geo-political zone as a matter of course in line with Nigeria's zoning principle.

FORMER Abia State governor Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has had its hearing for defrauding the government reset for June 7 after an Abuja high court rejected his motion that the matter be adjourned indefinitely when he appeared today.

NIGERIAN health officials have identified six more cases of the dreaded UK variant of the Covid-19 virus in the country known as B117 after scientists collected fresh samples from Osun and Kwara states.

NIGERIA'S federal government has threatened to suspend flight operations from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Netherlands as part of plans to curtail the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

SUPER Eagles striker Josh Maja has joined English Premier League side Fulham on loan from French club Bordeaux on loan for the rest of the season as the west London team desperately seeks to avoid relegation.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) With the casualty rate from the herdsmen saga growing by the day and the number of farms destroyed by roaming livestock on the increase, something drastic needs to be done immediately. This is not just a law and order issue, Nigeria needs to tackle it from an economic angle too. What happens when food production drops because of this constant crop destruction? We have no money to import food oooo

LAGOS State 's governor Babajide Sanwoolu has signed a new executive order into law making the failure to wear a facemask in public punishable by a six month jail term as part of the government's attempts to address the spread of the Covid-19 virus.