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INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) officials have advocated $49bn worth on investment in Nigeria's power sector between now and 2030 as a means of addressing the non-ending problem of epileptic electricity supply.

ANAMBRA State government has established a local vigilante outfit to be known as the Forest Guards and tasked it with the job of providing security following the recent rise in attacks by armed Fulani herdsmen.

SUSPENDED chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole has thrown his weight behind former Oyo State governor Senator Abiola Ajimobi as the authentic acting party chairman in his absence.

BRITISH Airways (BA) has announced plans to switch many of its short-haul flights from Gatwick to Heathrow Airport next month as part of a compulsory restructuring plan brought about by the coronavirus pandemic shutdown.

NIGERIA'S goalkeeping appears to have come to an end after nine bleak months after first choice Francis Uzoho resumed training following a nasty knee injury and second choice Maduka Okoye is set for a move to Dutch side Sparta Rotterdam.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) I have always regarded the 1851 capture of Lagos as the date when the British colonisation of Nigeria began. That was the year when John Beecroft the British consul of the Bights of Benin and Biafra, lined up his naval gunboats off the coast of Lagos and forced Oba Akintoye to sign a treaty of protection handing over the city to Britain

EDO State deputy governor Philip Shaibu has joined his boss Godwin Obaseki and resigned from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in response to the ongoing saga wrecking the party in the run-up to September's gubernatorial elections.

NIGERIA'S federal government has threatened to take punitive action against any resident doctor on its payroll who fails to resume work today  June 17 in a desperate bid to break the recent strike called by the National Association of Resident Doctors (Nard).

NIGERIA'S ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been thrown into a fresh crisis after the party's deputy national secretary Victor Giadom declared himself chairman following the suspension of Adams Oshiomhole and then proceeded to reverse the de-selection of Governor Godwin Obaseki as its candidate in Edo State gubernatorial elections.

ENGLISH Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers have made a £6.3m bid for Nigerian midfielder Alhassan Yusuf with a view to prising him away from Sweden's IFK Goteborg at the end of the season.