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TOTTENHAM Hotspurs manager Jose Mourinho is stepping up pressure on the club's management to sign Nigerian winger Paul Mukairu this summer before his ongoing exploits in the Belgian league spark off an expensive bidding war.

Ayo Akinfe 

(1) As the debate the future of Nigeria rages, many people are clamouring for the dissolution of states and replacing them with regions as federating units. However, that proposal is based on raw nostalgic emotion that does not stand up to scrutiny 

(2) During the First Republic, our regions were too large and unwieldy. Premiers were located in their regional capitals far away from the nooks and crannies of their regions 

POPE Francis 1 gas urged Nigerian Christians to stop being tribalistic in their approach to appointments and take the moral high ground by showing love to all human beings and treating everybody as equals.

YORUBA agricultural producers cooperative the Agbekoya Farmers’ Association has warned Fulani herdsmen's group Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore that it faces severe consequences if it does not obey the ban on open grazing introduced across southwest Nigeria.

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) leaders in Zamfara State have been accused of offering N56m ($146,000) to the bandits who recently kidnapped 279 pupils from Government Girls’ Secondary School (GGSS) Jangebe to forestall their release.

NIGERIANS in the UK will not be able to travel back home between now and the end of the lockdown period on June 21 after the British government introduced new stringent regulations prohibiting movement unless for very important business and emergencies.

SUPER Eagles Joe Aribo and Leon Balogun have both won their first ever league titles after their club Glasgow rangers emerged as the winners of the 2020/21 Scottish Premiership over the weekend.

Ayo Akinfe 

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) officials believe that the new remittance policy of the federal government will lead to the country’s foreign remittances rising to as much as  $34.89bn by 2023.

NIGERIA'S federal ministry of education has begun moving pupils from boarding schools across the northeast of the country to secure locations in Abuja and elsewhere to avoid them being abducted by armed bandits and Boko Haram terrorists.