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NIGERIAN senate president Senator Ahmad Lawan has told members of the public to stop questioning the jumbo pay packers members of the National Assembly pay themselves because it represents value for money.

NIGERIA has entered into her worst recession in four decades as the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic looks set to decimate the economy in a devastating manner last witnessed in the 1980s when oil prices collapsed.

AFROBEAT king Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has been honoured with a commemorative plaque by the Faculty of Music at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich in southeast London as part of a Black Plaque Project.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Presidents Muhammadu Buhari and Donald Trump have a working relationship of some sort. I think now is the time for Trump to call on Buhari to reciprocate all the goodwill shown to him

(2) On January 20, President Trump will need a new home. I for one do not see how he can remain in the US after publicly saying he will leave the country if Joe Biden beats him

WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) officials have warned that the anti-viral drug Remdesivir should not be used for hospitalized Covid-19 patients because trials have failed to prove that the medicine is effective.

HON Femi Gbajabiamila the speaker of Nigeria's Federal House of Representatives has identified his security aide who was responsible for the recent murder of a newspaper vendor in Abuja as a certain Abdullahi Hassan.

MEMBERS of the Rivers State judicial panel of inquiry set up to investigate abuses by the Special Anti Robbery Squad (Sars) police unit have been told how a man from Khana Local Government Area has remained in detention for a year for failing to pay a bribe.

NIGERIA'S federal government has signed an agreement with Niger Republic to resume the resumption of petrol products from her northern neighbour as part of a plan to combat domestic shortages due to limited refining capacity.

NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) president Amaju Pinnick has revealed that Super Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr will not be sacked despite the recent poor performances of the ream because the cost of dismissing him are too high.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) British prime minister Boris Johnson has just announced that he will be spending an extra £16.5bn ($21.9bn) on defence over the next four years. Nigeria could help that money go far if the British outsource some of the work to us