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Christantus becomes first Nigerian player ever to feature for Crystal Palace in Europe

SUPER Eagles playmaker Christantus Uche became the first Nigerian player to represent English Premier League side Crystal Palace in a European competition last night when he came on for them in a Uefa Conference League game yesterday.

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In the run-up to the 2027 polls, President Tinubu can seize the moral high ground by releasing Nnamdi Kanu amid a lot of fanfare at an event where he unveils the Nigerian Anti Tribal Bill 2025, which looks like this

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As from January 1 2026, every Nigerian’s state of birth will be their state of origin

[2] As from January 1 2026, anyone who has lived in a state for three years or more and paid taxes there, automatically becomes an indigene

[3] Pidgin English will from December 31 2025 be adopted as our national lingua franca. It will be taught as a university course and our academics will immediately start work on a Pidgin English dictionary

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Nnamdi Kanu's lawyers withdraw from his ongoing court case as he opts to represent himself

LAWYERS representing Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu in his ongoing treason trial have applied to withdraw their representation before the Federal High Court in Abuja.

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10 things Nigeria’s Northern State Governors Forum should do as part of an ambitious plan to create 20m jobs and woo our youths away from crime and terrorism

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Open a 20,000 square kilometre National Game Reserve in Taraba State. Make it the world’s largest wildlife sanctuary. Designed along similar lines to South Africa’s Kruge National Park, it should employ about 5,000 park rangers to police and fight off poachers

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Teenager Emmanuel Ahaneku becomes the latest Nigerian to sign for Arsenal's Hale Academy

NIGERIAN teenage prodigy Emmanuel  Ahaneku has signed a pre-scholarship deal with Arsenal's Hale End Academy from Coventry City making him the latest in a long list of Nigerians to join The Gunners schoolboy outfit.

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President Tinubu has just named a new ministerial nominee and a new Inec chairman. I am surprised he has not also named a minister of infrastructural development given that we have an annual deficit of about $100bn. This would be his brief

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Foreign direct investment - Aim for $50bn annually. When Mark Zuckerberg last visited Nigeria, did we get him to commit to a minimum annual investment figure?

[2] Development grants - I have lost track of how many billions are available through bodies like Unesco, Unicef, WHO, WTO, World Bank, etc. Do we have an annual target we want them to invest in Nigeria annually?

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Nigerian nurse handed suspended sentence after using false identity to work for the NHS

NIGERIAN migrant Lucius Njoku has been handed a 16 week suspended prison sentence by a British high court for impersonating a compatriot and using her details to work in a national health Service (NHS) hospital.

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St Paul’s message to the Nigerians - It is no accident that the word Niger is in the bible or that you are the world’s largest back nation

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Religion holds a lot of sway in Nigeria but how many of the country’s Christians know that the word Niger appears in the bible? Had this been the case with a European nation, the missionaries would have told us that it is a sign that they are God’s ordained people

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Palace coach disciplines Christantus by dropping him for returning late from international duty

SUPER Eagles playmaker Uche Christantus appears to have faced disciplinary action at his club Crystal Palace after returning late from international duty last week with him being dropped for the weekend's league game.

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It is time for Nigerians to draw up an action plan to address the nation’s top 10 priorities at the moment and then submit it to the National Assembly so bills can be passed facilitating it

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Ending the current insecurity epidemic. There are 6m weapons in the country at the moment and criminals are having a field day. This needs urgent addressing

[2] Putting out all the ethnic fires currently raging across the country. Ethnic mistrust is now such an issue, it virtually impossible to have any serious national debate on any subject without attracting suspicion

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