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NIGERIAN playmaker Ovie Ejaria is poised to end his six-year association with English Premier League champions Liverpool and join Championship side Reading where he spent last season on loan in a £3.5m deal .

[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

NIGERIA'S three petroleum refineries have incurred losses totalling N142.07bn ($380m) over the last 12 months as a result of staying idle while they chalk up huge operating expenses at a time when they are not generating any revenue.

LAGOS State government has warned traditional rulers against the sale of state of origin documents to non-indigenes saying the practice is criminal and anyone caught engaging in the act will be sanctioned.

NIGERIAN-born legal luminary Kaycee Madu has been appointed as the justice minister and solicitor general of the Canadian province of Alberta as the ongoing ethnic diversification of the government.

Mr Madu, 47,  was born and raised in southeast Nigeria and graduated from the University of Lagos with a law degree in 2001. He has practised law in both Nigeria and Alberta and he and his wife relocated to Canada in 2005.

MALI'S new military junta has been told by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas)  to create an interim government headed by a civilian with a mandate to conduct fresh elections and restore democracy to the country within 12 months.

SUPER Eagles midfielder Wilfred Ndidi looks set to join London Premier League giants Tottenham Hotspurs after he was omitted from the Leicester City pre-season squad amid talk that a big money transfer is imminent.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Coconuts
(2) Cashews
(3) Cocoa
(4) Palm oil
(5) Plantain
(6) Groundnuts
(7) Neem
(8) Gum arabic
(9) Millet
(10) Sorghum

As part of the post-coronavirus economic recovery plan, we should build a food processing industry around these crops. This should involve the construction of processing plants, railway lines, export terminals, silos, warehouses, etc.

NIGERIAN businesses who fail to repatriate foreign exchange proceeds from their international business will now face heavy sanctions under new guidelines being drawn up by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

NIGERIA has successfully evacuated 372 of her citizens stranded in Saudi Arabia during the coronavirus lockdown flying them to Abuja yesterday where they will go into isolation for 14 days before returning to their homes.