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NIGERIAN-born Shola Shoretire has made history by becoming the youngest ever Manchester United player to feature in a European match for the English Premier League giants when he featured against Real Sociedad yesterday.

NIGERIA'S growing insecurity crisis got significantly worse yesterday after 300 female students of Government Secondary School Jangebe in Zamfara State were abducted by armed bandits.

Ayo Akinfe 

(1) Disarmament centres will be established in every one of Nigeria’s 774 local government areas where illegal weapons will be handed in without any prosecution 

(2) As from April 1 2021, it will be illegal for anyone to own an automatic weapon like an AK47. Anyone caught with one will be subject to a statutory 10 year jail sentence 

FEDERAL government officials have drawn up plans to create 30 grazing reserves across the country under the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) in attempt to address the ongoing Fulani herdsmen crisis currently afflicting the country.

ISLAMIC cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi who has recently been involved in negotiations with armed bandits across northwest Nigeria has warned journalists to stop referring to them as criminals saying they are not different from the Niger Delta militants.

PRESIDENTIAL Advisory Committee Against Corruption (Pacac) chairman Professor Itse Sagay has expressed fears that attorney-general Abubakar Malami will prevent new Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa from performing.

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has warned Governor Nyesom Wike that he will be hunted for the rest of his life over the killings of his organisation's members in Obigbo in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State.

ARSENAL fans have reacted to the growing slump in their team's form by making it clear they would love to see Nigerian billionaire Alhaji Aliko Dangote buy the club and return it to winning ways.

Ayo Akinfe 

HISTORY has been made in a landmark divorce ruling in China after a court ruled that a husband should be his wife compensation of $7,700 for all the housework she did during the five years of their marriage.