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NIGERIA is poised to enjoy a mini revival in her economic fortunes as the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and its allies are set to increase their combined output by 2m barrels per day from August to December to meet recovering demand.

GOVERNOR Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State defended the federal government's recent clampdown on Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho saying they are separatists and the same treatment cannot be meted out to Fulani herdsmen because they are not secessionists.

KENYA'S government has denied playing any part in the recent abduction of Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu saying that despite the fact that he may have been snatched in their country it was a wholly Nigerian operation.

ORGANISERS of today's planned Yoruba Nation rally in Lagos are set for a showdown with the government after they vowed to continue with their protest despite the raid on the home of one of their leaders Sunday Adeyemo in Ibadan yesterday.

ENGLISH Premier League's most entertaining team Leeds United have opened discussions with Spanish side Huesca about bringing former Golden Eaglets skipper Kelechi Nwakali to Elland Road as part of manager Marcelo Bielsa's plans to win the title next year.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Immediately release Nnamdi Kanu and drop all charges against him 

[2] Reclassify the Indigenous People of Biafran (Ipob) as a socio-cultural organisation 

[3] Get the South East Governors Forum to take over the Eastern Security Network (ESN) and turn it into a regional security body similar to Amotekun 

[4] Release all agitators, Ipob members and ESN operatives in exchange for everyone with firearms laying them down under an amnesty programme 

BRITAIN'S high commission to Nigeria has said it will engage the federal government over the recent arrest of Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu to ascertain the details of how he was apprehended.

NIGERIA'S senate has amended the country's Firearms Act 2004 increasing the dine for being in possession of an unregistered weapon to N1m ($2,430) from N1,000 as part of new measures to arrest the growing spate of violence and lawlessness across the nation.

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has confirmed that its leader Nnamdi Kanu was arrested during a recent visit to Kenya and was then and handed over to the Nigerian authorities who then flew him into the country.

INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission (Inec) officer of Ibrahim Umar has been sentenced to seven years in prison by the Nigerian Court of Appeal sitting in Yola after being found guilty of receiving a bribe from ex-petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke.