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SUPER Eagles midfielder Frank Onyeka has joined the leaders of the English Championship Coventry City on loan until the end of the season with a view towards making the move permanent in the summer.

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[1] I have always regarded the 1851 capture of Lagos as the date when the British colonisation of Nigeria began. That was the year when John Beecroft the British consul of the Bights of Benin and Biafra, lined up his naval gunboats off the coast of Lagos and forced Oba Akintoye to sign a treaty of protection handing over the city to Britain

NIGERIA'S University of Lagos and the UK's University of Birmingham have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on transnational education engagement that will see the two institutions collaborate in the area of student and staff exchange.

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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 build on it and turn Lagos into an international financial centre that matches London which generates $650bn a year or New York which generates $1.4trn a year.

ENGLISH Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers have turned down a request from Turkish giants Besiktas to purchase Nigerian striker Tolu Arokodare during the current transfer window.

Arokodare, 25, was a £23m summer signing from Belgian side Genk during the summer transfer window. Wolves are currently rooted to the bottom of the Premier League, prompting Besiktas to made a bid for the striker in the hope that Wolves might want to offload their high earners.

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[1] If you ask me, there is something fundamentally missing with us Africans as human beings that fails to explain our intellectual laziness

[2] Faced with the constant threat of terrorist attacks, Nigerian munitions manufacturing should be thriving in an unprecedented manner at the moment.

AFROBEAT creator and Nigeria's most popular citizen ever Fela Anikulapo-Kuti will is to be conferred with a lifetime achievement award at the next Grammy Awards ceremony taking place on February 1.

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[1] Legislation must be passed compelling all clergymen to donate their privates jets to the state to be used as part of the fleet for a new national carrier. Nigeria Air did not take off because we did not have a budget to purchase the required aircrafts. It is unpatriotic to be flying around in a private jet when your country cannot afford an airline

GOVERNOR Charles Soludo's decision to clamp down on shops observing the Indigenous People of Biafra's (Ipob) Monday sit-ins has received the full support of Chijioke Okpalaugo the chairman of the Onitsha Main Market Traders Association.

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