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NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials are planning to fly all the Super Eagles players plying their trade in England and Scotland to Lagos in a private jet in a desperate bid to get round some of the coronavirus restrictions.

Ayo Akinfe 

(1) With the latest set of agitations calling for the balkanisation of Nigeria into 100 different mini kingdoms, I believe we have a perfect opportunity to debate the insanity of such nonsensical suggestions. To take the debate about our future forward, we need to banish such misguided, ill-conceived, irrational, and primordial thoughts once and for all 

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) officials injected a total of $5.62bn into the foreign exchange market in the fourth quarter of 2020 as part of desperate efforts to stabilise the naira and stem its incessant fall as a result of dwindling government revenue.

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has met with German foreign ministry officials to demand the return of precious artefacts looted during the 1897 Massacre of Benin revealing that he intends to house them in his proposed Edo Museum of West African Art.

NIGERIAN-born professor of public international law at the University of Oxford Dapo Akande has been jointly nominated by the UK and Nigeria as their candidate to serve on the International Law Commission for the 2023 to 2027 tenure.

NIGERIA'S House of Representatives has tendered an apology to the country's 15m strong diaspora for rejecting a recent petition by the Mutual Union of Tivs in America (Muta) after its deputy speaker Hon Idris Wase said diasporans should have no say in running Nigeria.

FORMER Super Eagles skipper Austin Jay Jay Okocha has revealed that Arsenal forced his nephew Alex Iwobi out of the club mandating him to leave for Everton in 2019 without the player having any input into the decision.

Ayo Akinfe

NIGERIA'S Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) have signed up to the UK’s Digital Access Programme's plan on inclusion for persons living with disabilities (PLWDs).

NIGERIA'S crude oil output rise slightly during February to 1.49m barrels a day according to figures just published by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) although production still lags behind the historic level of 2.5m barrels.