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MEMBERS of the Osun State chapter of the Amotekun Corps have been deployed to churches and mosques across the state to forestall a repeat of the recent ghastly attack on Saint Francis Xavier Catholic church in Owo.

NIGERIA'S ongoing insecurity took a major turn for the worse over the weekend when the Anglican Communion Bishop of Jebba Diocese Rt Rev Oluwaseun Aderogba and his wife were kidnapped by terrorists yesterday.

FORMER Golden Eaglet Malcolm Ebiowei could be moving from English Championship side Derby County to the Premier League next season as a host of club have enquired about him as his contract comes to an end.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] On December 22 1956, American newspapers were full of pictures of Dr Martin Luther King riding on a mixed bus with white folks after the Alabama Bus Boycott has been called off a day earlier. Dr King was the first person to ride on non-segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama on December 21 1956 to make the point that victory had been won

GOVERNOR Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State has said he no longer believes in Ohanaeze Ndigbo after the body failed to stand up for Igbos during the recent presidential primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

FIVE policemen providing security for singer Damini Ogulu popularly known as Burna Boy have been detained by the Lagos State police commissioner’s special squad after they shot two revellers at Club Cubana on Victoria Island in Lagos State.

NEWLY promoted English Premier League side Fulham are planning to offer Portuguese champions  €12m for the services of Super Eagles fullback Zaidu Sanusi in the hope of luring him to Craven Cottage during the summer transfer window.

Ayo Akinfe

Today is June 12, Nigeria's Democracy Day, so I am going to use the occasion to present a document to Nigeria's leading presidential candidates. . On June 7 in 1776, Richard Lee from Virginia moved the US Declaration of Independence in Congress. How about someone moves our Declaration of Economic Independence in the National Assembly on Monday and it gets adopted into law?

Here are the kind of things I would like to see in this document:

CHRISTIAN Association of Nigeria (Can) officials have warned Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to both refrain from picking Muslim running mates in the run-up to the 2023 presidential elections.

PAN-Igbo socio-cultural group Ohanaeze Ndigbo's youth wing has lambasted the five governors of the southeast geo-political zone over the woeful showing of Igbo candidates in the recent presidential primaries of Nigeria's two leading political parties.