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LEADERS of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) have fiercely criticised the recent meeting of northern governors and opinion makers in Kaduna that condemned the recent #EndsSARS movement and described it as subversive.

NIGERIAN-Americans have enjoyed unprecedented success in the ongoing US general elections with three of the nine candidates who stood in the polls having been declared winners of their congressional races.

BRITAIN's high commissioner to Nigeria Catriona Laing has urged the judicial panel probing the Lekki Toll Gate shooting to study all the incidents captured in the available recording of what happened on October 20.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) US companies need to expand into new origins close to raw materials where production costs will be lower. Nigeria has got to be on a top global list of five favourite investment destinations

NIGERIAN government officials have stepped up the persecution of organisers of the #EndSARS protests which recently rocked the nation by starting to freeze their bank accounts as part of a general clampdown.

NIGERIAN political and military officials responsible for the Lekki Toll Gate massacre in which unarmed protesters were shot may now be prosecuted for crimes against humanity after the International Criminal Court (ICC) commenced and inquiry into the matter.

NIGERIAN-born lawyer Esther Agbaje has been elected as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives making her the first Nigeria n-American to become a lawmaker in the state.

Ms Agbaje, 35, is the daughter of an Episcopal priest and a librarian, both Nigerian immigrants. Esther, contested to represent District 59B in the Minnesota House of Representatives on the platform of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the US Democratic Party.

KWARA Stare-born pharmacist Oye Owolewa has become the first Nigerian to elected to the US House of Representatives after he romped home in the Washington District of Columbia (DC) securing the seat for Joe Biden's Democratic party.

FULHAM winger Ademola Lookman has expressed frustration at how long it is taking world football federation Fifa to effect his switch from England to Nigeria as it is delaying his plans to feature for the Super Eagles in the African Nations Cup qualifiers.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Nigeria is willing to offer the US observer status at the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). This is to facilitate massive US investment in West Africa

(2) Nigeria is offering free land and five year tax holidays to the big three US automobile manufacturers General Motors, Chrysler and Ford. We want each of them to open assembly and manufacturing plants in Nigeria employing at least 5,000 local people each