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FULHAM centreback Tosin Adarabioyo and Southampton striker Nathan Tella have both been cleared by Fifa to play for Nigeria's Super Eagles in the forthcoming African Nations Cup qualifiers.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) All of a sudden we are hearing a lot about the need for law and order in Nigeria. Of course we all welcome that but this desire for us to be governed by the rule of law has got to be applied in a uniform manner across the board

POPE Francis I has intervened in the ongoing crisis in Nigeria by calling for prayers over the current violence and widespread  looting that has spread nationwide across the country asking that peace be returned.

SECURITY forces in Katsina State have been placed on high alert amid fears that the youths there will join the nationwide protests and raid local warehouses believed to be holding stocks of Covid-19 palliatives.

GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwoolu has revealed that it will cost at least N1trn ($2.6bn) to repair the damage caused by the recent disturbances in Lagos State as a lot of public property was damaged and will bed to be rebuilt.

NIGERIA'S chief of army staff Lt General Tukur Buratai has ordered military commanders and troops to go after looters and hoodlums raiding warehouses and vandalising property across the country in the wake of the #EndSARS protests.

SEVERAL Nigerian television stations have been fined by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for inciting youths to violence during the #EndSARS protests that has led to widespread demonstrations across the country.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) It is crystal clear to the whole world now that the gulf between the haves and the have-nots in Nigeria is now totally unsustainable. No matter what anyone says, social convulsions are inevitable

(2) We are the poverty capital of the world with about 87m people living in extreme poverty. When nearly 90m of your citizens live on less than $2 a day, you are going to have a revolution whether you like it or not

BRITAIN has quietly reduced the £35,800 minimum salary for migrants to settle in the UK by almost 30% to £20,480 in a move that will greatly impact Nigerians wanting to work in the country.

MARTIN Luther King's son Martin Luther King III has added his voice to the condemnation of stifling demonstrations in Nigeria calling on the federal government to guarantee the freedom of peaceful protesters involved in the #EndSARS protests.