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NIGERIA'S high commissioner to the UK Ambassador Sarafa Ishola and Benin's Prince Aghatise Erediauwa have taken delivery of a cockerel artefact looted from the ancient Benin Kingdom during the 1897 sacking of the city.

ZAMFARA State has suffered an accelerated increase in the number of attacks over the last week with at least 10 villages across Zurmi Local Government Area being ransacked by heavily-armed gunmen.

ROAD transporters in Abia State have appealed to the enforcers of the weekly sit-at-home order across the southeast geo-political zone to give them palliatives to cushion the effects of the lockdown which now take place on a weekly basis.

NIGERIA'S high commissioner to the UK Ambassador Sarafa Ishola  has castigated London magazine The Economist for what he described as its unfair depiction of Nigeria when addressing the current issue of insecurity facing the nation.

FORMER Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Professor Charles Soludo had unveiled a Contact with Ndi Anambra manifesto in which he has promised to create 130,000 jobs a year as part of a major industrialisation programme.

FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Oluwaseni Joshua has had his request to train with long-time rival Tyson Fury as he prepares to challenge for his belts back accepted.

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] If you ask me, what we are currently witnessing is a war. This time it is not against guns and bullets but the effects are the same and as with the case with any war, you need a reconstruction plan. Every war is always followed by a reconstruction plan and this is no different. Does Nigeria have a post-coronavirus reconstruction plan?

WORLD Bank officials have decried the continued spending by the Nigerian government on petrol subsidy which is on track to gobble up N2.9tn ($7bn) this year which economists say could be better spent on social programmes and infrastructure.

NIGERIA'S ethnic tensions intensified significantly yesterday after members of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) approached the Federal High Court in Abuja asking it to order the National Assembly to ensure the exit of the southeast geo-political zone from the country.

NIGERIAN police authorities have come under immense pressure from top government officials to clear suspended commander Abba Kyari currently under investigations over his relationship with international fraudster Ramon Abbas popularly known as Hushpuppi.