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AS many as 300,000 Nigerians have now been displaced from their homes in four states across the country as a result of the murderous activities of armed Fulani herdsmen according to survey just published by the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

SCOTLAND'S University of Aberdeen has agreed to return a Benin bronze artefact to Nigeria within weeks more than a century after Britain looted the sculptures and auctioned them to Western museums and collectors.

NIGERIA'S ongoing vaccination plan is facing derailment after India  suspended the exports of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine from the Serum Institute in what is believed to be a response to growing domestic shortages.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Are you aware that in 2003, President Olusegun Obasanjo signed the Maputo Declaration compelling the federal and 36 state governors to spending 10% of their annual budgets on agricultural projects?

(2) Designed to combat unemployment, guarantee food security and ensure no African nation is wholly dependent on one commodity, the Maputo Declaration was supposed to represent a commitment to economic diversification

NIGERIAN senators have passed a bill seeking to establish the National Agricultural Development Fund as part of ongoing plans to make capital available to budding entrepreneurs in the food industry and reduce Nigeria's dependence on crude oil.

WINNERS Chapel founder Bishop David Oyedepo has waded into the ongoing debate about hijab wearing in Kwara State advising Muslim parents to withdraw their children from Christian schools if they are not happy with the guidelines they operate under.

SEVERAL senators from the southern half of the country  have resolved to work towards the unity of Nigeria despite the various challenges threatening the nation’s continued existence that have come to the fore over the last year.

SEVERAL prominent politicians of Igbo extraction have threatened to ditch Nigeria's main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) it do not zone the presidency to the southeast geo-political zone come 2023.

NIGERIAN-born midfielder Tim Akinola has been promoted to Arsenal first team by Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta this week to make up for the absence of several players who are away on national duty.

Ayo Akinfe 

As from October 1 2021, only the following items will be on the federal executive list. Everything else will be handled by state governments