CAMEROONIAN Customs authorities have arrested a Nigerian and two local men for attempting to smuggle 80 cobras and vipers to London from Douala aboard an Air France commercial flight.

FORMER All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman Adams Oshiomhole has dissociated himself from the legal suit challenging the dissolution of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party pointing out that he is not interested in returning to office.

NIGERIA'S information minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed has hit back at US claims that Nigeria is a hotbed of religious intolerance saying Washington's categorisation of the country as such was nothing more than a disagreement on the causes of recent violence.

NIGERIAN-born playmaker Michael Olise has become one of the most sought-after midfielders in the English Premier League in the run-up to the opening of the January transfer window forcing Championship side Reading to place a £40m price tag on him.

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[1] The Nigerian Army shall undertake a five year programme to plant trees along Nigeria's borders to demarcate the nation's boundaries. Such trees shall be painted in the country's colours

[2] Nigeria's maritime borders will also be marked out with cones

[3] Each state capital shall house at least one battalion of the Nigerian Army

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has announced that he will appear before the National assembly on Thursday to address both houses of parliament and update them on what his government is doing to tackle the growing insecurity across the country.

GOVERNOR Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has distanced himself from those advocating for the zoning of the presidency to the southern half of the country in 2023 saying Nigerians should elect the best person for the job irrespective of where they are from.

GOVERNOR Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has suspended his chief of staff Dr Anthony Agbazuere following the publication of a video showing him spraying controversial clergyman Prophet Chukwuemeka Odumeje inside Government House.

SEVERAL Nigerian domestic airlines are expected to merge over the coming years as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing reduction in passenger numbers looks set to force them to consolidate their operations.

NIGERIAN youths have taken to the streets again to resume their #EndSARS protests which ended abruptly in October when soldiers opened fire on demonstrators at the Lekki Toll Gate Plaza in Lagos State.