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LAWYERS representing Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo have stepped up legal activity in Cotonou amid signs that the Republic of Benin may bow to incessant Nigerian pressure and extradite their client.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has asked Nigerian parents to start making sacrifices to ensure that their children get educated because without an education their wards will find it hard to compete in the global economy.

NIGERIAN athletes at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics are at loggerheads with sports officials over their allocation of phones given to competitors from each participating country by telecommunications giant and sponsor Samsung.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] According to Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) UK-Nigeria trade was worth £3.4bn in 2016. President Buhari should demand that this be boosted to around £50bn over the next five years. There are sectors like power, automobiles, railways, healthcare, etc where Britain has a lot of expertise that is badly needed in Nigeria

DEPUTY police commissioner Abba Kyari has denied receiving a bribe from a Nigerian Instagram celebrity Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi in response to his recent indictment by a US court over the matter.

KANO State government is planning to introduce a new law that will prohibit women from driving automobiles as part of a renewed enforcement of the strict Sharia code which regards allowing women to drive as un-Islamic.

DEPARTMENT of State Services (DSS) officials failed to produce Sunday Adeyemo's 12 associates arrested during the July 1 raid on his Ibadan residence in court earlier today when the matter was heard in the Abuja Federal High Court.

NIGER Delta Peoples Salvation Force (NDPSF) leader Mujahid Asari-Dokubo has lashed out at the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) for trying to claim the name Biafra as Igbo property revealing that it was originally coined by an Ijaw man.

NIGERIA'S sprint queen Blessing Okagbare has hit out at the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) over its negligence after 10 of the country's track and field athletes were balled from participating in the Tokyo Olympics for failing to meet international doping guidelines.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] How many Nigerians know that Pakistan is actually the most similar nation to Nigeria on earth? In terms of population, GDP, generated electricity, literacy rates, number of hospital beds, kilometres of tarred roads, level of corruption, religious fanaticism, etc, the figures obtainable in both countries are almost identical, except in a few areas. If you were looking for a nation to twin Nigeria with, it would be Pakistan