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NIGERIA has secured a landmark victory in its pursuit to overturn a $10bn judgement awarded against the government for breach of contract filed against it by British company Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID).

GHANA and Nigeria have been locked in intense negotiations in Abuja over the ongoing diplomatic spat brought about by the recent decision by the Ghanaian authorities to levy Nigerian traders operating in the country a hefty sum of $1m.

NIGERIAN aviation authorities have only granted nine airlines approval to commence international flights in and out of the country when the federal government opens up its airspace tomorrow on Saturday September 5.

ARSENAL have turned to former Super Eagles skipper Nwankwo Kanu in a desperate bid to sign Ghanaian midfielder Thomas Party from Atletico Madrid asking their former striker to use his influence to the player to come to the Emirates.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Nigeria is the open defecation capital of the world, as one in four citizens, representing about 47m people across the country relieve themselves out in the open according to the World Health Organisation

(2) Nigeria needs about$2.7bn to end open defecation by 2025. Of that, the government is expected to provide around 25%. I say turn this into an electricity investment programme

NIGERIA is poised to miss out on $600m that could have been gained from the imposition of a 35% import tax on 3m pre-paid electricity metres after the federal government decided to waive the levy on the machines due to be imported from China.

THIRTY Three Nigerian properties in the UK have been earmarked and face the risk of being confiscated under the terms of a messy legal suit involving damage costs awarded to energy firm Eurafic Power by the London Court of International Arbitration.

FORMER finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has taken American citizenship as part of her ongoing campaign to become the next director-general of the World Trade organisation (WTO).

FORMER aviation minister Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has sent a libel letter to the Daily Trust newspaper warning that he will sue the publication over a recent article in which he was described as a drug-addled thug in designer wears.

NIGERIA'S Super Eagles are to play friendly games against Ivory Coast and Tunisia in Vienna next month as part of team's preparations for the resumption of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.