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AFROBEAT musicians Burna Boy and Wizkid have entered the history books by becoming the first Nigerian-based musicians to win Grammy Awards yesterday at the 63rd hosting of the prestigious ceremony.

Burna Boy won a Grammy for his album Twice As Tall, making him the first Nigerian to win the award at just his second attempt. Twice As Tall, Burna Boy’s fifth studio album, was adjudged one of the best to be recorded by the 29-year-old Nigerian-born Damini Ogulu.

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[1] Maglev trains that run at 600km per hour
[2] The world's largest milk processing plant with a capacity of about 5bn litres a year
[3] The world's largest solar farm generating about 2,000MW
[4] The world's biggest shipyard
[5] Mankind's biggest automobile assembly plant
[6] The world's biggest cattle ranch covering about 20,000 sq kilometres

NIGERIAN health workers intending on travelling to the UK in search of work will find it a bit more difficult to relocate after the government introduced a new set of stringent rules under an updated Code of Practice (CoP) that will affect 47 developing nations.

SIX of Nigeria's 36 states have stated that they will not participate in the federal government's National Livestock Transformation Programme (NLTP) amid fears that it could cause more problems than it is designed to solve by increasing communal strife.

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(1) Nnewi will be turned into the Detroit of Africa with a pledge to woo every autobiography manufacturer in the world there by 2025. Ever car company must have a local manufacturing plant in Nnewi

(2) By 2025, Anambra State will generate at least $100bn internally. It will subsequently withdraw from the federal allocation money sharing regime becoming the first Nigerian state to do so

MANUFACTURERS have lamented the fact that they are unable to access the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) N1trn ($2.6bn) Covid-19 Stimulus for Manufacturing and Import Substitution Fund floated to enable them get over the economic impact of the pandemic.

NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) president Amaju Pinnick coasted to victory in recent elections into the Fifa executive council beating Malawian football association president Walter Nyamilandu by 43 votes to eight in a landslide win.

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(1) Today, Lagos is the only state in Nigeria that can survive without federal allocation and crude oil receipts but alas, it is nowhere near uhuru. For all its dynamism and vibrancy, Lagos is nowhere near other global financial  centres like New York, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Kuala Lumpur and Sao Paulo 

FORMER Plateau State governor Senator Joshua Dariye is to spend the next 10 years in prison after the Supreme Court affirmed his conviction for corruption in a case brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

NIGERIA'S recently-replaced service chiefs have been accused of being unable to account for sums of money handed to them to purchase weapons for the armed forces by the national security adviser Retired Major General Babagana Monguno.