Liverpool join the race to sign Aina seeing him as a good replacement for Alexander-Arnold

ENGLISH Premier League giants Liverpool have joined the race to sign Super Eagles fulback Ola Aina at the end of the season in response to the fact that he and his current club Nottingham Forest are yet to agree a new deal.

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How about we resolve as a people to mass-produce 10 industrial goods in Nigeria over the next decade with a double decker molue bus being the centrepiece of new manufacturing programme

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[1] We must woo two or three automobile manufacturers to come and open plants that manufacture modern day molue buses. They should be double decker electric vehicles and come with air conditioning. As a nation, we should aim to manufacture these buses at about half the price of a competitive bus

[2] Nigeria should also aspire to become the world's leading manufacturer of flatscreen TVs that you can hang on the wall like clocks

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Nigeria's hopes of securing Atubolu's services grow after he is left out of German squad

NIGERIA'S hopes of securing the services of Freiburg goalkeeper Noah Atubolu have received a big boost after the German football federation left him out of their recent squad to face Italy in the Uefa Nations League quarterfinals on Thursday.

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Given Nigeria’s diversity, it beholds on us to turn the country into one big anthropological site where tourists come to see the history of the ape that got lucky

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[1] It is no accident that Nigeria is so heavily populated. Do you know that between them, Nigeria and Cameroon account for 10% of the world’s languages? We need to build a tourist industry around this

[2] If there ever was a Tower of Babel, it is out there either along the Nigeria/Cameroon border or near the River Niger/Benue confluence. We need to find it and turn Nigeria into one of the most visited nations on earth

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UK introduces stringent new measures to curb the recruitment of care workers from abroad

BRITAIN has introduced stringent new visa rules for care providers and health workers aimed at curtailing their recruitment from overseas as part of a major crackdown on migrant employees from developing nations from across the Commonwealth.

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Listening to the FCT minister Nyesom Wike talk with the regional president of Lombardy in Italy, how I wish he could have practiced subsidiarity when Rivers State governor and done the following

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[1] What makes Rivers State unique is that it has always been at the forefront of economic change in Nigeria. Rivers State was the centre of the slave trade, the palm oil trade and now the crude oil trade. It has always been the cash cow of Nigeria. It should account for at least 20% of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP) given the head-start it had

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Chelle prunes list of Eagles invitees down to 23 for Rwanda and Zimbabwe World Cup qualifiers

SUPER Eagles head coach Eric Chelle has pruned down his list of players that will participate in the two forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Rwanda and Zimbabwe to 23 ahead of both matches later this month.

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Would you not just love it if the National Assembly passed this into law today - The Nigerian Federal Exclusive List Bill 2025

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[1] Foreign affairs shall be on the exclusive list

[2] External defence shall be on the exclusive list

[3] National railways shall be on the exclusive list

[4] Sea ports shall be on the exclusive list

[5] Airports and aviation shall be on the exclusive list

[6] Steel production shall be on the exclusive list

[7] National sports shall be on the exclusive list

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Premier League sides Wolves and Leicester sound out Nigerian striker Rafiu Durosinmi

ENGLISH Premier League sides Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leicester City have both made enquiries about signing Nigerian striker Rafiu Durosinmi from Czech club Viktoria Plzeň during the forthcoming summer transfer window.

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Were I in President Tinubu's shoes, I would have used the occasion of International Women's Day to negotiate a new Belt and Road Initiative with China

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[1] China must provide at least $10bn in capital to fund a Nigerian Women’s Cooperative Bank. It will be established to offer micro finance, student loans, start-up capital and grants to women

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