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NIGERIAN virologist Professor Oyewale Tomori has been appointed to serve as a member of the World Health Organisation's (WHO) technical advisory group on Covid-19 vaccine composition.

FORMER Abia State governor Senator Orji Uzor Kalu appears to have got away with his N7bn money laundering charge after a federal high court barred the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from retrying him over the matter.

UNKNOWN gunmen have shot dead Dr Chike Akunyili the husband of Nigeria's former information minister Professor Dora Akunyili in Anambra State  along with his driver and police escort this morning.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] In life, very little happens without precedence. What we are seeing in the UK today is a classic case of xenophobic fears coming back to bite a people in the behind. As ever, the chickens alwats come home to roost 

GOVERNANCE has been brought to a standstill in Ogun State over the last week after Governor Dapo Abiodun and his deputy along with the speaker of the state house of assembly all travelled abroad leaving the state in limbo.

NIGERIA'S ongoing divisive ethnic spat took a turn for the worse yesterday after the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) issued a communique at the end of their emergency meeting in Kaduna condemning recent steps taken by the southern counterparts.

SEVERAL Nigerian blacksmiths have now acquired the necessary expertise to manufacture AK47 assault rifles and other light arms thus providing a steady flow of weaponry to bandits and criminals according to a recent Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) report.

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) is stepping up pressure on other self-determination groups from other parts of the country to join it in enforcing a nationwide shutdown on October 1.

ABOUT eight members of the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) have been shot dead in the capital Abuja this morning after unidentified men in uniform opened fire on them while they held a peaceful annual march.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Very recently, fossils of a new hominid were found in South Africa. Archaeologists have named it Homo Naledi

[2] Basically, we have now discovered another member of our ape family. Homo Naledi joins Homo Sapien, Homo Erectus, Homo Neanderthalis, Homo Habilis and Homo Heidelbergis as one of the great apes that roamed the planet once upon a time