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INTERNATIONAL non-governmental organisation Save the Children has raised the alarm that about 867 schools in Borno State are either non-functional or inaccessible as a result of the insecurity in the area brought about by the Boko Haram insurgency.

ENGLISH League One side Rotherham United has broken its transfer record by signing Nigerian-born youngster Freddie Ladapo for a fee believed to be in the region of around £500,000 with a further £150,000 in potential add-ons.

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] We shall provide loans with interest rates of no more than 5% interest to anyone wishing to delve into agriculture. Such loans will be tailored towards buying hybrid seedlings, pesticides, herbicides, fertilisers and farming equipment like tractors, water tanks, silos and barns

NIGERIA'S commercial banks are to go through a fresh recapitalisation exercise under an ambitious Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) programme aimed at increasing liquidity and making more capital available for loans.

EMIR of Kano Alhaji Lamido Sanusi Mohammed has been appointed as the chancellor of the Ekiti State University (Eksu) in Ado Ekiti after a letter confirming his appointment was signed by Governor Kayode Fayemi.

WORLD Bank officials have dismissed suggestions that Nigeria is a fragile state pointing out that the current challenges the country is facing are all surmountable as the violence being witnessed is driven by poverty and high levels of unemployment.

CALLS have intensified for the arrest and prosecution of the former Ogun State governor Ibikunle Amosun after it emerged that he had amassed a stockpile of weapons and ammunition ahead of this 2019 general elections.

ENGLISH Premier League giants Arsenal have signed Nigerian youngsters Ovie Ejeheri and Daniel Oyegoke ahead of the forthcoming season as part of the club's reinforcement of its youth academy.

Ejeheri is a goalkeeper while Oyegoke is a right-back. Both players will play for Arsenal’s U18s during the course of the 2019/20 season and will hope to break into the senior squad in due course.

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] Once headache that has always plagued Nigeria since independence is the problem of ethnic mistrust. It is like a cancer that simply refuses to go away. After the Nigerian Civil war, between 1970 and say 1993, we had relative ethnic peace but alas, ever since then, this menace has come back to haunt is big time. Ethnic mistrust will always act as a reign on economic growth as apart from breeding insecurity, it stifles attempts to eradicate illiteracy

ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officials have been threatened with legal action by the Coalition Against Financial Crimes and Injustice (Cafci) if it does not prosecute the former Bauchi State governor Mohammed Abubakar for fraud while in office.