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ANTI-Sars protester Modupe Odele has had her international passport returned to her by the Nigeria Immigration Service after it was illegally confiscated at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos when she was about to travel.

NIGERIA'S African Nations Cup qualifier against Sierra Leone taking place at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin on Friday October 13 will take place behind closed doors with the media not even allowed to attend as part of the Covid-19 restrictions.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) First of all, many Inec officials would have obeyed his instructions to stop counting the votes immediately the president called for it

(2) Leaders from his ethnic group would have held meetings and declared their unalloyed support for him

(3) Troops would have been dispatched to seize all those ballot papers at the counting centres

NIGERIA's attorney-general and justice minister Abubakar Malami has cast doubt on the sincerity of the government to address questions raised by the now-dissolved Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) police unit by claiming there is no evidence to prosecute its operatives.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) First of all, please bring all those responsible for the Lekki Toll Gate shootings to book. They must be punished and seen to be punished

YOUTH representatives on the Lagos judicial panel walked away from proceedings today in response to the federal government's bad faith by getting the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to freeze the accounts of suspected #EndsSARS protest leaders.

MAIDSTONE and The Weald Member for Parliament Helen Grant has been appointed by British prime minister Boris Johnson as the UK's new trade envoy to Nigeria as part of an ambitious programme to grow commerce between both nations.

Ayo Akinfe

NIGERIAN authorities have stepped up their persecution of leaders of the recent #EndsSARS protests with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) securing a court order empowering it to freeze the bank accounts of anyone associated with the demonstrations.

CRYSTAL Palace playmaker Ebere Eze has once more been placed in a difficult situation regarding his international future after he was only called up to the England U21 squad rather than the senior squad.