Nnamdi Kanu's lawyers complain security agents are preventing them from seeing their client

LAWYERS representing Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu have complained that they are not being granted access to their client despite there being a court order permitting them to visit him twice a week.

 

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Nigeria picks up two medals at Tokyo winning a wrestling silver and a long jump bronze

NIGERIA has picked up two medals in the Tokyo Olympics this morning after wrestler Blessing Oborududu won a silver in the 68kg category class to add to the bronze long jumper Ese Brume brought home.

 

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Nigeria lacks a class of industrial enterprueners who understand the principle of wealth creation

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] In 1986 that former Nigerian military dictator Ibrahim Babangida launched the Structural Adjustment Programme (Sap). I cannot think of one policy that ruined Nigeria as much as Sap as it simply destroyed numerous state parastatals like the Nigerian Cocoa Board, Nitel, Nigerian Airways, Nigerian National Shipping Line, Nigerian Railway Corporation, etc

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Health officials express concern about spread of Covid-19 in Nigeria as death toll rises by 240%

FEARS are growing among Nigerian health officials that the coronavirus pandemic may have a lingering effect in the country as the death toll over the last week has increased by 240% and the number of people testing positive is also rising.

 

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Nigeria's debts to World Bank and African Development double to over $14bn within six years

NIGERIA'S combined debts to the World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB) doubled to $14.25bn as of at the end of March this year from $7.14bn in June 2015 according to information just released by the Debt Management Office (DMO).

 

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Nigerian businesswoman Yekemi Otaru named as chancellor of University of the West of Scotland

NIGERIAN businesswoman Yekemi Otaru has been named as the new chancellor-elect if the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) succeeding Dame Elish Angiolini and is due to assume office on September 1.

 

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Sunday Igboho's lawyers are optimistic that he will get a response on his asylum application this week

LAWYERS representing Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo are optimistic that their client will be released from jail this week as they should get a response to the asylum application he has made.

 

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Viera looks to take Nigerian winger Ademola Lookman to Palace on season-long loan

ENGLISH Premier League side Crystal Palace are looking to sign Nigerian striker Ademola Lookman on a season-long loan as part of manager Patrick Vieira's ongoing programme to significantly strengthen his squad ahead of the 2021/22 campaign.

 

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I hope President Buhari promised other leaders at the London summit that if the world invested in Nigerian education they would see this level of productivity within the next five years

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] 10m tonnes of steel

[2] 20m pre-paid electricity metres

[3] 5m electricity transformers

[4] 20m mobile phone handsets

[5] 2m automobiles must be assembled locally

[6] 10m flatscreen TV sets

[7] 10m tonnes of maize

[8] 5m tonnes of sugar

[9] 10 tonnes of rice

[10] 50m pairs of footwear

[11] 1,000 railway carriages

[12] 20bn kg of milk

[13] 2m tonnes of beef

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Let us bounce back from the disaster of the Tokyo Olympics and try and console ourselves by building a vibrant sports industry economy

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nothing cures boredom like the beautiful game called football with its creativity. Football was actually the only thing the Taliban could not ban in Afghanistan. I do not know of one thing that unites humanity like football. Nigeria needs to cash in on it

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