Canuk brings festive cheer to Greenwich and Bexley Hospice on Christmas Day

CENTRAL Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk) officials visited the Greenwich and Bexley Hospice in Abbeywood in southeast London earlier today to celebrate with residents and hand over some items on behalf of the community.

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On December 25 1914, British and German soldiers observed a 24 hour truce and played a football match to mark Christmas. Nigerians need to learn from this and make 2025 a turning point

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As I wish you all a Merry Xmas, can we please use today to reflect on how irrelevant our differences can be at times. This is supposed to be a season of goodwill when man is good to his fellow man. Christmas can sometimes bring out the humanity in all of us

[2] During World War One, German and British troops left their trenches and celebrated Christmas together by playing a football match against each other

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Islamic body plans to open southern Nigeria's first ever sharia court in Oyo State come January

OYO State is poised to get a sharia court next year after the Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria announced that it will be opening such a facility in January in the ancient city of Oyo making it the first in the south of Nigeria.

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Canuk to donate food items to Greenwich and Bexley Hospice on Christmas Day

CENTRAL Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk) officials will be handing out food items to the Greenwich and Bexley Hospice in Abbeywood in southeast London on Christmas Day as part of a cooperative agreement between the two bodies.

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Let us launch a national quiz whereby we ask Nigerians these 10 questions every Christmas Eve with the top three winners taking luxurious prizes

Ayo Akinfe

[1] How do we get Nigeria to produce 50m tonnes of steel a year?

[2] How do we produce inter-city trains that run at 200km per hour?

[3] How do we build five deep sea ports along our 853km Atlantic coastline?

[4] How do we generate about 260,000MW of electricity like say Indonesia and South Africa?

[5] How do we increase our gross domestic product to $1trn by 2027?

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About 75 people die over the last week in food stampedes across Nigeria as hungry masses scramble for rice

AS many as 75 Nigerians have died over the last week in food stampedes as hoards of hungry people scramble for Christmas handouts which state governments have been handing out to ameliorate the effects of hyper-inflation over the festive season.

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Just imagine every Nigerian waking up on December 25 to find a special Christmas hamper containing these goodies delivered on their doorsteps

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria and all its sister bodies are to be termed terrorist organisations as from January 1 2025

[2] As from January 1 2025, we shall initiate the gradual dismantling of the federal allocation formula and return to the 1958 Lancaster House Agreement under which federating units will control the resources within their domains

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Chelsea decide against sending Nigerian teenage sensation Tyrique George out on loan

ENGLISH Premier League giants Chelsea have told all the suitors looking to sign Nigeria-eligible teenager Tyrique George to hands off the winger as they plan to use him having just promoted him to the first team at Stamford Bridge.

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Desperate situations sometimes call for desperate measures. Should Nigeria take a leaf out of China's book and introduce internment and labour camps to boost industrial output?

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I recently found out that one of the key factors in China’s growing manufacturing prowess is the fact that it runs Gulag prisoner camps where hardened criminals are made to work in a productive manner, churning out industrial goods

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