THREE police officers including a chief superintendent of police identified as Ben Ajide have been reported to have lost their lives during the recent shootout between Nigerian security forces and the armed wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra in Akwa Ibom State.

FEDERAL Airports Authority of Nigeria (Faan) officials have beefed up security at all airports across Nigeria in the run-up to Easter to forestall any possible terrorist attacks during the holiday period.

PASTOR Chris Oyakhilome's Christian TV channel Loveworld has been fined £125,000 by the UK's broadcasting regulator Ofcom for airing harmful claims about the Covid-19 pandemic describing it as a planned event.

SUPER Eagles midfielder Wilfred Ndidi has been ranked as the 13th best footballer in the world during the first quarter of 2021 by the highly respected research group the International Centre for Sports Studies  (CIES) Football Observatory.

Ayo Akinfe 

(1) Governors of the 19 states of northern Nigeria will make land available so the country’s cotton cultivation area is increased to at least 2m hectares 

(2) Nigeria’s Bank of Industry will make loans available to all cotton farmers at an interest rate no higher than 2%

FORMER Emir of Kano and one-time Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Alhaji Lamido Sanusi paid a courtesy call on the Mayor of the London Borough of Brent Councillor Ernest Ezeajughi earlier this week to commend him for his charitable work.

NIGERIA'S federal government has commenced plans to educate over 10m out-of-school children in different parts of the country under the Alternate School Programme (ASP) aimed at eradicating illiteracy.

ANTI-corruption group the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (Heda) has revealed that assets and funds worth more than $400m stolen from Nigeria by public officials have recently been recovered in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

MOUNTAIN of Fire and Miracles (MFM) ministries general overseer Dr Daniel Olukoya has been awarded N500m ($1.31m) damages by an Ogun State high court against a UK-based blogger Maureen Badejo who was adjudged to have published libelous stories about him.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari will not be writing to the National Assembly handing over the reins of government to vice president Professor Yemi Osinbajo during his two week medical vacation in the UK as he believes he is well enough to govern from abroad.