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PRESIDENTIAL aspirants from across the southwest geo-political zone seeking the All Progressive Congress (APC) ticket have all agreed to conduct their campaigns in a brotherly manner devoid of personal attacks and bitterness.

WEST African air travellers have taken to social media to mock BA's attempts to serve its passengers jollof rice aboard a London to Accra flight with those who were served the dish complaining that what they were served looked nothing like the delicacy.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] No matter how you look at it, large under-performing countries like Nigeria, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh are the only hope for humanity in the post-Covid-19 era. With global economic output down by about a third, they are the ones who can drag the human race out of this morass

NIGERIAN airline operators have issued a notice warning the general public that they will ground all their flights as from Monday May 9 and stop all domestic flights as a result of the exorbitant cost of aviation fuel.

BRITAIN is to introduce a new high potential individual visa regime with effect from May 30 that will allow graduates in certain sectors from developing countries to be given priority as their skill sets are desperately needed in the UK economy.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has told Igbo leaders that he will not intervene in the ongoing legal case of Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu pointing out that he would leave the matter to the courts to determine.

BRITAIN'S National Crime Agency (NCA) has recovered a fresh stash of cash totalling more than $23m stolen from Nigeria by the late military dictator General Sani Abacha who ruled the country between 1993 and 1998.

BRITAIN has made a U-turn regarding its stance on secessionist group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) opting to classify it as a terrorist organisation which would exclude its members from accessing political asylum.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] The federal ministry of works will directly employ 2m youths to engage in an ambitious road construction programme linking all state capitals to a national road network

[2] Every state government will be set a target of building at least 1m housing units over the next five years

[3] Every state government will be mandated to build roads linking every one of its local government areas with the capital

DOMESTIC flights within Nigeria face being suspended over the coming days after airline operators warned that  they may be forced to ground their fleets after oil marketers informed that the cost of aviation fuel has now risen to N680 per litre from N500.