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MEMBERS of the Bauchi State House of Assembly have passed a vote of no confidence in the education commissioner Dr Aliyu Tilde for treating them with disdain when he was summoned to come and defend his budget submissions.

LOCAL Onitsha traders are counting the cost of today's sit-at-home order called by the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) to protest the arrest of its leader Nnamdi Kanu saying the ongoing shutdowns are becoming too expensive.

FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua is considering a multi-million pound offer to step aside and allow Oleksandr Usyk who defeated him  to engage in a unification fight with Tyson Fury.

FOREIGN airlines operating in Nigeria have begin initiating plans to significantly reduce their flight frequencies into Nigeria in response to the recent travel bans introduced by the UK and Canada that is certain to curtail passenger volumes significantly.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] It is Xmas again and as from this weekend, our Igbo brethren will be converging on the southeast, coming from all over Nigeria

[2] Transport fares to cities like Enugu, Umuahia, Aba, Awka, Owerri, Onitsha, etc will double. Owning a national bus company that plies southeast Nigeria is a licence to print money at Xmas

VIROLOGY expert Professor Oyewale Tomori has blamed the Nigerian government for the recent travel bans imposed on its citizens by Canada and the United Kingdom saying it happened due to sheer negligence.

NIGERIA may have problems getting hold of members of the Super Eagles for the forthcoming African Cup of Nations because top European clubs are stepping up their objections to player release for the tournament.

ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officials have urged the federal high court in Abuja not to grant Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) chairperson Dr Ngozi Olejeme to travel abroad for medical treatment.

HEALTH minister Dr Osagie Ehanire has stated that Nigeria has no plans to reciprocate the UK's recent travel ban introduced under the guise of combating the Covid-19 pandemic by restricting the movement on Britons into the country.

FORMER senate president and secretary to the federal government Senator Pius Anyim has conceded that southeast Nigeria does not have an automatic right to produce Nigeria's next president in 2023 but should try and persuade other parts of the country to let it do so.