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CHINA'S government has announced the temporary suspension of Nigerians entering into the country including those holding valid visas and residence permit as a result of the continuing spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

PETROLEUM minister Timipre Sylva has revealed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is set to resume oil exploration in the Lake Chad Basin despite the global demand for crude oil being in decline.

NIGERIA's federal government is seeking the approval of the National Assembly for  a $1.2bn loan from Brazil to finance its proposed agricultural programmes contained in the 2021 budget.

10 lessons Nigeria can learn from the US elections

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Place CCTV cameras in every polling and counting unit

(2) No people who want democracy can be misled by an undemocratic president. See how Americans ignored Trump’s call to annul the elections. Were that in Nigeria, sycophants would be falling over to please the Oga at the top

(3) Electronic voting helps reduce counting time

(4) Maybe we should get all Inec officials to wear bodycams

NIGERIAN senators have asked State House officials to prevent President Muhammadu Buhari from going on foreign medical trips in the future in order to ensure the presidential villa clinic becomes functional this year.

FORMER US vice president Joe Biden has launched a transition website in anticipation of being declared the winner of the recent presidential elections which is set to be concluded shortly with a winner likely to be declared today.

LEADERS of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) have fiercely criticised the recent meeting of northern governors and opinion makers in Kaduna that condemned the recent #EndsSARS movement and described it as subversive.

NIGERIAN-Americans have enjoyed unprecedented success in the ongoing US general elections with three of the nine candidates who stood in the polls having been declared winners of their congressional races.

BRITAIN's high commissioner to Nigeria Catriona Laing has urged the judicial panel probing the Lekki Toll Gate shooting to study all the incidents captured in the available recording of what happened on October 20.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) US companies need to expand into new origins close to raw materials where production costs will be lower. Nigeria has got to be on a top global list of five favourite investment destinations