ENGLISH Premier League side Brentford have stepped up their interest in Nigeria-eligible winger Kevin Schade with a view to purchasing him from German Bundesliga club Freiburg during the current transfer window.

Ayo Akinfe

Here are 10 relatively new companies whose market capitalisation is greater than Nigeria’s total gross domestic product (GDP) of $375bn. This should shame the world's largest black nation with a population of 200m into action:

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that he cannot wait to retire to his country home in Daura in Katsina State as the countdown towards the end of his tenure begins with elections looming in February.

NIGERIA'S minister of information and culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed has revealed that the country has signed an agreement for the repatriation of 1,130 pieces of Benin bronzes from Berlin in Germany.

NIGERIAN students in Northern Cyprus have asked the federal government for help them over the ill-treatment they are currently suffering in the hands of their host nation which has led to a high suicide rate among their members.

NOLLYWOOD actress Funke Akindele has confirmed that she has been selected as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) deputy governorship candidate in Lagos State ahead of next year's gubernatorial elections.

ASTON Villa's Nigeria-eligible midfielder Carney Chukwuemeka could be ion his way to Spain before the current transfer window closes as La Liga giants Barcelona are seriously interested in signing him.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Over the weekend, we just celebrated Sallah across Nigeria. There were durbars held in several tiowns and cities across Nigeria but has anyone ever been able to make the festival a comercoak success as happens with say Christmas in Europe?

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has been accused of ignoring Nigeria's Christian faithful by the Middle Belt Youth Forum (MBYF) following his decision to pick a fellow Muslim as his running mate.

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and three other Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors are currently in the UK for the graduation of his son Jordan who has just graduated from the University of Exeter.