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NIGERIA has been removed from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list which includes countries involved in money laundering and terrorist financing after government action to address the concerns raised by the global watchdog.

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[1] Nigeria is offering 99 year leases and three year tax holidays to any international investor who comes and invests in her cattle industry. Foreign investors are needed in the animal feed production, leather processing, milk production and ranch maintenance sectors

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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[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

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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[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

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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[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?

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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[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