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ALL Progressives Congress (APC) governors are believed to have pressurised President Muhammadu Buhari to dump Governor Mala Buni  as the party's interim chairman and replace him with Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State.

SUPER Eagles head coach Augustine Eguavoen has revealed that he would live to bring former Chelsea wingback Victor Moses into his squad as Nigeria prepares for the 2022 World Cup.

Moses, 31, retired from international football in 2018 after the last World Cup and has not been involved with Nigeria in any way shape of form since.  Nigeria face Ghana in a two-legged World Cup play-off later this month and if the Eagles win, they will be bound for Qatar 2022.

GOVERNOR David Umahi of Ebonyi State and his deputy Eric Igwe have been sacked by an Abuja court after a judge ruled that their defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC) despite while elected in the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was illegal.

NIGERIA'S House of Representatives has marked international women's day by rescinding an earlier decision to reject three gender equality bills which had earlier on in the week failed to pass as part of the ongoing amendments to the 1999 constitution.

AMERICAN personal care product giant Kimberly Clark has opened a new $100m plant in Ikorodu in Lagos State in a major foreign direct investment project aimed at allowing the company to manufacture products for the domestic market locally.

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YORUBA Nation agitator Chief Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho has been released from custody in neighbouring Republic of Benin and handed over to Professor Banji Akintoye the president of Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide.

FORMER vice president Atiku Abubakar's American University of Nigeria (AUN) has stepped up the recruitment of some of the recent Ukrainian returnees inviting them to consider enrolling at the institution rather than return abroad.

NIGERIA'S federal government has expressed its disapproval of the ongoing volunteering of the country's citizens putting themselves forward to join the Ukrainian army so they are eligible to fight in the ongoing war with Russia.

TWO of the co-defendants arraigned before a federal high court in Abuja today alongside Assistant Police Commissioner Abba Kyari on drug running charges pleaded guilty to importing 21.35kg of cocaine.

Mr Kyari and six others charged with dealing in 17.55kg of cocaine by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Today, the case was heard in court and Chibunna Patrick Umeibe and Emeka Alphonsus Ezenwanne, both pleaded guilty to importing cocaine into Nigeria.