NIGERIA'S federal government has announced plans to take delivery of several mega transformers under Presidential Power Initiative (PPI) programme from German multinational Siemens in September this year.

NIGERIA has won her first gold medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games taking place in Birmingham in the UK with weightlifter Adijat Olarinoye setting a new tournament record of 203kg in the women’s 55kg weightlifting event.

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[1] Investment that will grant Nigeria the capacity to produce at least 5m tonnes of steel annually

[2] Investment that will ensure Nigeria has a machine tool manufacturing capability

[3] Investment that provides a double gauge railway network that links up all of Nigeria's 36 states and runs at a minimum speed of 120km per hour

[4] A 95% literacy rate by the year 2030

FORMER speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives Hon Yakubu Dogara has added his voice to the growing objection to the All Progressive Congress (APC) decision to go for a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket in next year's elections.

NIGERIA-eligible teenager Michael Olakigbe has signed a four year with English Premier League side Brentford that will see him play alongside Super Eagles midfielder Frank Onyeka in the top flight.

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[1] In this picture are Jan Żabiński and Antonina Żabińska, a Polish couple who ran the Warsaw Zoo during World War Two. After the Nazi occupation in 1939, the hid Jews in the zoo to prevent them being sent to concentration camps 

WORLD 100 metres hurdles record holder Tobi Amusan and World Athletics Championships long jump silver medallist Ese Brume have arrived at Nigeria's Commonwealth Games camp in Birmingham to a rapturous welcome.

BRITISH sporting kit manufacturer MG Sportswear has come to the rescue of Team Nigeria by hurriedly supplying them with emergency kits after their original ordered outfits failed to arrive ahead of the opening ceremony.

GENERAL overseer of the Christ Holy Church International Reverend Daniel Chukwudumebi Okoh has been elected as the new president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (Can) following a meeting of its general assembly.

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is facing another legal challenge to his candidacy this time from the Action Alliance (AA) who want him barred because he running mate Senator Kashim Shettima is doubly nominated.