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FORMER agriculture minister Akinwumi Adesina has received further good news today after his recent acquittal by an investigation panel after the African Union (AU) said it would back his bid for a second term as the  African Development Bank (AfDB) president.

NIGERIAN Army commanders have revealed that the soldier who recently shot an officer dead in Borno State did so because he was depressed and not because of any other reason according to their findings.

WORLD heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua will now have to wait until December to face Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev due do take place at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as a result of delays brought about the Covid-19 lockdown easing.

PANDEMONIUM broke out at the Murtala Mohamed International Airport in Lagos yesterday when two aeroplanes collided with each other as one ran into a parked aircraft as it was preparing for take-off.

SUPER Eagles striker Kelechi Iheanacho has become a major transfer targets for English Premier League clubs in the Midlands with both newly-promoted West Bromwich Albion (WBA) and Aston Villa keen on signing him ahead of the new season.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Yesterday, Saudi Arabia announced that foreign pilgrims will not be allowed to make the annual hajj pilgrimage this year due to coronavirus fears. Basically, they adhered to Plato’s theory of “The chief good,” subordinating their religious and economic interests to the greater good of mankind

MEMBERS of Nigeria's Federal House of Representatives have raised concerns over the country's growing debts to China as the federal government keeps entering into loan agreements which lawmakers say could jeopardise the nation's independence.

NIGERIAN author Irenosen Okojie has won the AKO Caine Prize for African writing with her short story Grace Jones which deals with the unique questions of trauma and identity as well as pleasure and escape.

NIGERIA'S military high command has confessed that it does not have the necessary manpower to tackle the ongoing violence in the southern part of Kaduna State following the recent attacks that has led to the deaths of about 55 people.

NIGERIAN Diaspora Commission (NDC) chairman Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has made a passionate plea to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to pay the allowances of its students in the UK as many of them are now destitute.