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LEICESTER City have offered Nigerian-born teenage goalkeeper Chituru Odunze a new long-term contract ahead of the expiration of his current deal which expires on June 30 in the hope of getting him to commit his long-term future to the club.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Now that the presidential primaries are over, I think it is time to discuss this matter of economic growth. Nigeria is forecast to have a mere 2% gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate over the coming years, which is wholly inadequate

THREE men have been sentenced to death by hanging or firing squad by an Ondo State High Court after they were found guilty of the murder of Mrs Funke Olakunri the daughter of Afenifere leader Pa Reuben Fasoranti three years ago.

BRITAIN has agreed to provide £1m worth of funding support to Nigeria's National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in 2022 with additional funding over the next three years as part of a programme to assist the body in its fight against narcotics.

AFENIFERE leader Chief Ayo Adebanjo has called for members of the Amotekun Security Corps to be well armed ion the future pointing that it they were, the recent Owo massacre in which about 40 people were slaughtered in a church would have been averted.

NIGERIA'S Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) has given all of the country's 18 registered political parties eight days to submit the names of their running mates following the recent conclusion of the presidential primaries.

SUPER Eagles striker Victor Osimhen is closing in on the scoring tally of the likes of Nwankwo Kanu and Austin Okocha after scoring his 11th international goal yesterday in Nigeria's laboured 2-1 victory over the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone.

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] Across Nigeria today, insecurity is a booming industry in which private armies of robbers, kidnappers, terrorists, hoodlums, etc, have taken over the country. So lucrative is this trade that it is the fastest growing sector of the economy

NIGERIA'S Seplat Energy and its founding chairman Dr Ambrose Orjiako has been highly praised by the London Stock Exchange (LSE) this week for its role in trying to drive the Nigerian clean energy market.

NIGERIA'S spending on motorcycle imports ballooned by 22% during the first quarter of 2022 compared with the last three months of 2021 as a total of N74.6bn ($180m) was spent on purchases up from N61.25bn the previous quarter.