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Liverpool plan to recall Taiwo Awoniyi from Mainz over his lack of playing time

ENGLISH Premier League leaders Liverpool are planning to recall Nigerian striker Taiwo Awoniyi from his loan spell at Bundesliga side Mainz during the current transfer window in response to the fact that he is not seeing enough action in Germany.

 

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Ebonyi state government accuses southwest governors of stealing Amotekun idea from southeast

EBONYI State government has claimed that it came up with the original idea of establishing a regional security outfit that has now been implemented in southwest Nigeria under the codename Operation Amotekun at the South East Governors Forum.

 

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Do Nigerians ever ask themselves if their government can turn to them in its hour of need?


By Ayo Akinfe

(1) If you want to know what is wrong with Nigeria as a nation, look no further than this jet fighter, the Grumman F6F, popularly known as the Hellcat. It was what won the Battle of the Pacific for the US during World War Two

(2) After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour in 1941, they dominated the skies in the battle of the Far East as their jet fighter, the Mitsubishi A6M known as the Zero, shot Americans planes out of the sky in a turkey shoot

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Buhari Media Organisation taunts Atiku for owing foreign media workers months of salary arrears

FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has come under attack from the government for owing foreign staff who worked for his agency Gotel Africa Media months of salary arrears that runs into thousands of dollars.

 

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Bauchi's Governor Bala Mohammed hospitalised in London for undisclosed ailment

BAUCHI State's Governor Bala Mohammed has been hospitalised in London for an undisclosed ailment in what has become the latest incidence of a Nigerian public official seeking medical treatment in the UK.

 

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Buhari signs 2020 Finance Bill into law with emphasis on infrastructural development

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has signed Nigeria's 2020 Finance Bill into law enacting this year's annual budget aimed at getting the economy off to a good start with an emphasis on infrastructural development.

 

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Dangote promises to make a renewed bid for Arsenal next year after competing his refinery

NIGERIAN billionaire Alhaji Aliko Dangote has pledged to pit in a renewed bid for English Premier League giants Arsenal in 2021 once he has finished the construction of the petroleum refinery he is currently building in Lagos.

 

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Buhari's close ally Pacac chairman Prof Sagay throws his weight behind Operation Amotekun

CHAIRMAN of Nigeria's Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (Pacac) and close adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari  Professor Itse Sagay has thrown his weight behind the establishment of the regional security outfit Operation Amotekun.

 

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With the launch of Amotekun and the sudden emphasis on regional cooperation I think it is time for us to come up with an integrated Middle Belt economic programme

By Ayo Akinfe

 

[1] Amotekun is not perfect and a lot still needs to be worked out to prevent it becoming an uncontrollable paramilitary force outside the ambit of the law but it is a good idea in principle. Having a regional security that provides intelligence to the police and armed forces is a good thing as local people know the terrain and know where all the criminals are hiding out in their communities

 

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Nigerian crude oil output rises to 2.2m barrels a day in defiance of Opec reduction agreement

NIGERIAN crude oil production has grown to a four year high of 2.2m barrels a day over the last month as output has been stepped up in defiance of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) directive limiting daily supply to 1.77m barrels.

 

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