NIGERIA'S main opposition the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been warned by the youth wing of Ohaneze Ndigbo not to bother standing any candidates for elective positions across the southeast if it fails to field an Igbo presidential candidate in 2023.

SUPER Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr has handed a debut call-up to Glasgow Rangers leftback Calvin Bassey ahead of Nigeria's World Cup double header qualification matches against the Central African Republic this October.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Kudos to the members of the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) for finally waking up from their slumber. They have finally realised that it is they who will fix Nigeria, not the federal government 

[2] Waiting for the federal government to come and bail you out is just looking for a lame excuse in my opinion. As we have seen from Amotekun, VAT and open grazing, things only get done when state governors take action 

BRITAIN'S high commissioner to Nigeria Catriona Laing has revealed that the country is willing to return all of Nigeria's stolen loot stashed away in London as part of a programme to strengthen the bilateral partnership between both nations.

PAN-Yoruba socio-cultural group Afenifere has insisted that Nigeria must be restructured before the next general elections gold in 2023 if the federal government is serious about addressing the plethora of socio-economic woes afflicting the nation.

NIGERIAN virologist Professor Oyewale Tomori has been appointed to serve as a member of the World Health Organisation's (WHO) technical advisory group on Covid-19 vaccine composition.

FORMER Abia State governor Senator Orji Uzor Kalu appears to have got away with his N7bn money laundering charge after a federal high court barred the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from retrying him over the matter.

UNKNOWN gunmen have shot dead Dr Chike Akunyili the husband of Nigeria's former information minister Professor Dora Akunyili in Anambra State  along with his driver and police escort this morning.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] In life, very little happens without precedence. What we are seeing in the UK today is a classic case of xenophobic fears coming back to bite a people in the behind. As ever, the chickens alwats come home to roost 

GOVERNANCE has been brought to a standstill in Ogun State over the last week after Governor Dapo Abiodun and his deputy along with the speaker of the state house of assembly all travelled abroad leaving the state in limbo.