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NIGERIAN-born scientist Councillor Ernest Ezeajughi has been elected to serve a second four-year term as the mayor of Brent for another year following yesterday's first ever virtual annual general meeting (AGM) of the council.

ENGLISH FA Cup defending champions Arsenal have rejected a £3m big from Premier league rivals Sheffield United for their Nigerian teenage striker Folarin Balogun because the club sees him as a long term prospect who can take over from skipper Pierre Aubameyang.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) The federal government shall build six new dams on the rivers Niger and Benue to create artificial lakes to avoid the rivers breaking their banks

(2) All state governments must build similar dams on the major waterways in their territories such as River Kaduna, Ogun River, Owena River, River Anambra, Imo River, etc

MEN of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested four men suspected of beating a policeman to death in the Sango-Otta area of the state following an altercation over a road traffic incident.

NIGERIAN government revenue has fallen by 65% in 2020 when compared with the same period last year as a result of the devastating economic impact of the coronavirus lockdown according to finance minister Zainab Ahmed.

SEVERAL elder statesmen have expressed regret at what they call the presidency's childish response to recent comments by former president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo who criticised the government for sowing division among Nigerians.

NIGERIA has effectively lifted all the restrictions placed on the aviation industry in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic with the opening of all of the country's airports on top of the recent resumption of international flights.

NIGERIA'S plans to become self-sufficient in rice production have suffered a serious setback over the last two weeks as heavy rainfall has destroyed hundreds of hectares of crops in Kebbi State that was spearheading the expansion plan.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Cocoa - We need to boost our annual harvest to 1m tonnes from the current 330,000 tonnes

(2) Rice - We need to boost our national harvest to 10m tonnes from the current 4m tonnes

(3) Sugarcane - We need a 10m tonne crop, up from the current 38,000 tonnes

(4) Palm oil - We need to boost output to 20m tonnes from the current 1m tonnes

(5) Wheat - We desperately need to boost production to about 10m tonnes from the current 60,000 tonnes

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's official praise singer Dauda Kahutu popularly known as Rarara has successfully raised the sum of N57m ($150,000) within 48 hours finance the release of a new song extolling the virtues of the president