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NIGERIA'S minister of arts and culture Hadjia Hannatu Musawa has finally received two pieces of bronze artefacts from a Boston museum that were looted during the 1897 Massacre of Benin.

DISPIRATE fighting continues to dog Nigeria's main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after a faction loyal to Federal Capital Territory minister Nyesom Wike responded to his expulsion over the weekend by announcing the expulsion of three governors.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I wonder if Nigerians noted how certain companies and countries exploited the economic openings the Coronavirus pandemic provided. For starters, online firms such as Zoom, WhatApp, Instagram, Twitter, etc making a killing with digital communication apps. So too did companies like Tesla, who cashed in on reduced travel

FEDERAL Capital Territory minister Nyesom Wike is refusing to leave Nigeria's main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) quietly after a faction loyal to him rejected his expulsion along with that of several other members at the party's convention on Saturday.

NIGERIAN students studying abroad under the federal government’s Bilateral Education Agreement (Bae) and their parents staged a protest in Abuja today over the non-payment of their scholarship stipends.

CONGRESSMEN in the US House of Representatives will hold an open hearing on Thursday November to examine President Donald Trump’s recent redesignation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC).

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Elected officials and the members of their immediate families are barred from going overseas for medical treatment

[2] Exceptions may be made in the cases of rare specialist care. In such cases, affected officials need to write to the National Assembly seeking permission for such trips

[3] Any public official who needs specialist overseas care more than once during a four year tenure must vacate their office

NIGERIAN football officials have upped their game big time and offered the Super Eagles a bumper incentive package for tonight's World Cup play-off against the Democratic Republic of Congo promising them $55,000 for every goal scored.

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has decided to intervene in the ongoing communal violence rocking Plateau State by sending his emissary Dr Abiodun Essiet to go there and initiate a dialogue between local Christian and Muslim leaders.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] An African giant of a nation with a landmass of about 3m square kilometres. This will include about 800,000 sq kilometres of Sahara Desert

[2] A socialist secular nation with a population of 1bn people where power is devolved to the federating units

[3] A nation with a gross domestic product of about $30trn putting it in sharp competition with China, India, the US and a United States of Europe