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NORTHERN socio-cultural group the Arewa Youth Assembly (AYA) has expelled its speaker Mohammed Salihu Danlami for criticising the economic policies of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Central Bank of Nigeria governor Godwin Emefiele.

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has dragged the Kenyan government to court claiming that it violated his human rights by participating in his abduction and extradition to Nigeria in June this year.

FORMER aviation minister Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has dramatically left Nigeria's main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in a development that has shocked the political establishment.

NIGERIA'S ongoing value added tax (Vat) debate took a further twist today after Nigeria's Court of Appeal decided to keep the Federal Inland Revenue Services (Firs) as the recipient of all monies pending the determination of all legal issues on the matter.

NIGERIAN soldiers have recovered 11 rocket launchers from armed bandits in Adamawa State after launching an assault on their camp in Maiha Local Government Area which was once under the control of Boko Haram.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Last week, the whole of Nigeria was talking about the unique attire President Buhari wore during his one day official visit to Imo State. However, have we cashed in on it?

[2] I am gobsmacked that nobody in Imo State, a part of the country renown for its commercial clout and industrial nature has spotted the opportunities this presents. Why has some smart tailoring company not moved to name this attire a Buhari Suit and sought to patent it?

MILITARY sources in northeast Nigeria have indicated that the leader of the notorious terrorist sect the Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) Abu Musab Al-Barnawi has been killed in Borno State.

FIERY evangelical clergyman Prophet Ebenezer Opambour has repeated his claims that men with large penises will not make heaven because they are using them for sinful purposes by satisfying women who shower them with gifts in return.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Within six months, the Taliban must organise free and fair United Nations-supervised elections. They need to get a mandate to govern Afghanistan

[2] The Taliban must submit to general elections every four years. Nobody has the right to rule a people without the permission of the populace

[3] The Taliban must leave women’s rights intact across Afghanistan. To buttress this point, at least a third of its cabinet must be female

AS many as 7,000 professional Nigerian nurses leave the country each year for greener pastures according to information just published by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.