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NIGERIAN electricity officials have asked power distribution companies to suspend the planned increase in prices that were due to come into effect soon in response to the public outrage the hike has precipitated.

NIGERIAN health campaigner Dr Funmi Adewara has been given a sustainable development goal (SDG) award by the World Bank in recognition of her unrelenting work in the field of telemedicine.

SUPER Eagles centreback William Troost-Ekong has joined English Championship side Watford from Italian team Udinese in a five year deal that brings his two-year sojourn in Italy to an end.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Our National Assembly will pass laws scrapping immunity at both the federal and state levels for presidents, vice presidents, governors and their deputies

[2] Being found guilty of embezzling anything in excess of N1m should attract a mandatory life prison sentence

[3] The president must sell off all of the aircraft in his presidential fleet

[4] The president’s salary and allowances should not exceed $200,000 per annum

NIGERIA is drawing up plans to introduce a law that will make it illegal to export solid minerals without adding value to them as part of an ambitious plan to industrialise her economy.

GOVERNORS of Nigeria's 36 states have dragged President Muhammadu Buhari to the Supreme Court challenging a presidential executive order signed in May which places the burden of funding courts on them.

NIGERIA has secured another major victory in its quest to overturn a $10bn judgement awarded against the government for breach of contract filed against it by British company Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID).

FORMER Osun State governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman Chief Bisi Akande has warned all those advocating for the dismemberment of Nigeria that their proposals are fraught with great dangers as it could lead to 100 years of war.

FORMER Super Eagles defender Efe Ambrose has been appointed as a member of the coaching crew at Scottish Premier League side Livingston being named as the assistant coach of the reverse team yesterday.

(1) The NNPC is to be privatised with the government holding a stake of no more than 25%. Foreign partners will hold about a 50% stake, with the company floated on the Lagos, New York, London, Frankfurt and Tokyo stock exchanges

(2) The NNPC will be recalibrated as a diversified conglomerate with a presence in manufacturing, agriculture, steelmaking, food processing, automobile assembly, power generation, shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, rail franchise operations, aviation, etc