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NIGERIAN health officials have declared 89 people persons of interest and has threatened sanctions against them for violating coronavirus protocols after they arrived in the country from abroad and refused to go into quarantine.

ENGLISH Premier league giants Everton have signified an interest in signing Super Eagles target Joshua Zirkzee from Bayern Munich during the forthcoming summer transfer window as part of a drive to bolster its forward line.

NORTHERN Nigerian pressure group the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) has rubbished calls that President Muhammadu Buhari should replaced the recently deceased chief of army staff Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru with a candidate from the southeast.

DIASPORA body the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk) has just elected a new executive committee to conduct its affairs for the next two years at its annual general meeting with journalist Ayo Akinfe voted in as its new chairman.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has pledged that yesterday's death of the chief of army staff Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru  and 10 other military officers would not be in vain indicating that the tragedy will spur him to step up the fight against insecurity and terrorism.

GOVERNORS of the five state that make up the southeast geo-political zone have pledged their commitment to an indivisible and united Nigeria despite the ongoing calls for secession and the balkanisation of the country.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Given that there are 200m Nigerians with about 50% of them being 18 and over, we should have a 20 year plan to build 40m housing units over the next 20 years

[2] Of these 40m, the federal government should build 10m of them in Abuja and Lagos

[3] We need a law that compels all 36 state governments to build houses as a matter of law

[4] Each state must be obliged to build at least 10,000 housing units a year

SECESSIONIST group the Biafra Nations League (BNL) has warned the inspector-general of police Alkali Baba that if his men carry out the shoot-at-sight order he instructed them to their members will resort with fullscale violence.

VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo is to mediate in an ongoing dispute between the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over the repayment plan for bailout loans.

GOVERNORS from across the southeast geo-political zone have promised to address the ongoing restiveness in their region within the next six months by coming up with solutions to the plight of their youths who have resorted to violence of late.