Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 04/21/2021 - 13:51
MEN of the Ekiti State chapter of the Amotekun Corps have freed the traditional ruler the Obadu of Ilemeso Ekiti Oba David Oyewumi and arrested six of his kidnappers after mounting a daring raid on their hideout in Kwara State.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 04/21/2021 - 10:00
BRITAIN has adjusted its asylum rules on Nigeria recognising that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) and other secessionist groups are facing persecution from the federal government and is now offering them political asylum visas.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 04/21/2021 - 09:21
SUPER Eagles striker Kelechi Iheanacho has ruled our returning to his former club Manchester City at the end of the season as a replacement for Argentine Sergio Aguero pointing out that he is happy at Leicester City.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 04/21/2021 - 08:44
Ayo Akinfe
(1) As the former Chadian president was Boko Haram’s most formidable adversary, the vacuum needs to be filled with an intensified military presence in the Lake Chad Basin or we will end up with another Afghanistan on our hands. I await a Blitzkreig operation over the next few weeks
(2) I think it is time to expand the Lake Chad Basin Force into a fully fledged Ecomog Army of about 20,000 men
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 15:14
NIGERIA'S federal government has appeared before a British high court to decide certain procedural issues relating to the ongoing challenge against the enforcement of a $10bn arbitration award obtained by Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID).
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 14:15
MEMBERS of a local councillor's family in Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State have beaten up the Catholic priest in charge of St Mary’s Catholic Church in Nkomoro after a bitter altercation over an attack on a cassava farm.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 13:47
KATSINA State has recorded an impressive79% vaccination rate after the first phase of the implementation of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign with an overwhelming majority of the state's residents expressing confidence in the programme.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 12:42
KIDNAPPERS who recently abducted the Obadu of Ilemeso Ekiti Oba David Oyewumi have demanded a ransom fee of N20m ($52,500) from his family if they want the traditional ruler returned to them unharmed.
On April 15, Oba Oyewumi was abducted by the gunmen who invaded his palace in Ilemeso Ekiti in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State at around 9pm. Over the weekend, his abductors contacted the family and demanded the ransom as a condition for his safe return to his domain.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 12:19
DAILY Nigerian publisher Jaafar Jaafar who exposed the corrupt antics of Kano State governor Abdullahi Ganduje in 2018 when he published a video of him stuffing dollars into his pockets has had to flee his Kano and Abuja residences after receiving death threats.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 04/20/2021 - 06:37
Ayo Akinfe
(1) Foreign direct investment - Aim for $50bn annually. When Mark Zuckerberg last visited, did we get him to commit to a minimum annual investment figure
(2) Development grants - I have lost track of how many billions are available through bodies like Unesco, Unicef, WHO, WTO, World Bank, etc
(3) Federal government funding - This source is fast drying up though as oil demand remains weak
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