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CRYSTAL Palace have stepped up plans to sign Nigerian-born winger Ademola Lookman from English Premier League rivals Everton this summer as a replacement for Ivorian star Wilfred Zaha who they are resigned to losing.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Nigerians are fond of blaming all their problems on poor leadership but for me, that is just a kop out. It is an intellectually lazy way of trying to explain a wider malaise that afflicts the world’s largest and most prosperous black nation. A handful of bad leaders cannot misrule 180m people for 60 years without their consent and full acquiescence

NIGERIA has received another minor boost to her economy after global crude oil prices climbed to a six month high of $74.25 a barrel in response to a decision by President Donald Trump to punish countries that buy petroleum from Iran.

DETECTIVES from the Ondo State Police Command have launched a manhunt for a group of ritual killers who killed a 60-year old woman with a hunchback which the hoodlums who included her son thought would fetch them millions.

OONI of Ife Oba Enitan Ogunwusi has revealed that Igbos and Yorubas come from the same family as several Yoruba sub-groups belong to the Aku Aaro Oojiire or Omoluwabi ethnic clan which has its roots in Igboland.

GOVERNOR Rochas Okorocha has lashed out at one of his predecessors Achike Udenwa describing him as the worst person to ever govern the state since was created in 1976 saying he did nothing during his eight year tenure.

OGUN State governor-elect Prince Dapo Abiodun spent Easter Monday delivering a message to a lepers colony at Iberekodo in Abeokuta North Local Government Area as part of his planned inclusive programme aimed at assuring everyone that they will catered for.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Today is April 23. On this very day in 1946, Manuel Roxas, the gentleman in this picture, was elected the last president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. His reign lasted until 1948 and as from then onwards, the country became a fully fledged independent state, adopting the structure it has until this day. The Philippines was America’s only real colony, which explains why it is the only Christian nation in Asia today

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) leaders appear to have settled for the south-south geo-political zone producing the next deputy senate president after they ruled out Orji Uzor Kalu getting the position on behalf of the southeast.

GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu has blamed All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Adams Oshiomhole for his current political woes saying they are behind the recent decision to suspend him from the party.