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ENGLISH Premier League side West Ham have enquired about Super Eagles winger Samuel Chukwueze with a view to buying him in the summer if they manage to avoid getting relegated.

Chuwueze, 26, is owned by Italian giants AC Milan but is on a season-long loan to English Premier League side Fulham. Milan value the winger at about €24m and are expecting Fulham to activate the buy clause at the end of the season but London rivals the Hammers may now be interested in the player too.

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[1] Rather pathetically, we are spending about $11bn importing products we can easily produce locally

[2] Of late, the Central Bank of Nigeria has waded into the matter by drawing up a list of products for which foreign exchange will not be made available to importers but that is only one tenth of the battle.

MALAYSIA'S government is preparing to roll out a new digital platform that will enable employers to recruit foreign workers including Nigerians directly cutting out the need agencies that have traditionally dominated the process.

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[1] This here is a picture of Roman Empire at its zenith in 117AD. As you can see, it covered virtually all of Europe apart from Scotland, Scandinavia and Tsarist Russia

NIGERIA-eligible central midfielder Tochi Chukwuani scored on his debut for Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers following his recent transfer from Austrian side Sturm Graz during the just-closed January window.

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[1] Pharmaceutical companies from both China and India are committed to opening mega drug manufacturing factories in Nigeria. In addition, their Nigerian subsidiaries will be given sole distribution rights across Africa

SEVERAL of President Bola Tinubu's recent nominees for ambassadorial positions face the risk of being rejected by their host countries due to time constraints on their tenures created by the fact that the current government's life is due to end next May.

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[1] Lagos State: Our commercial capital currently accounts for about one quarter of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP) and one third of non-oil GDP. However, we need to built on it and turn it into an international financial centre that matches London which generates $650bn a year or New York which generates $1.4trn a year.

ENGLAND U15 coach Matt Thorpe has invited Nigeria-eligible teenage centreback Isaac Ogunrinde to the Young Lions training camp in Cyprus in a development that could lead to him ending up playing for England ahead of the Super Eagles.

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[1] Nigeria’s federal government will buy the rights to the world’s most successful car the Volkswagen Beetle. We will then enter into a pact with Innoson Motors under which the government owns 25% of a joint venture that manufactures electric Beetles, making Nigeria the world’s largest manufacturer of such vehicles