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NIGERIAN Diaspora Commission (NDC) chairman Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has made a passionate plea to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to pay the allowances of its students in the UK as many of them are now destitute.

NEW Glasgow Rangers leftback Calvin Bassey has declared himself available for the Super Eagles whenever Nigeria wants him  pointing out that his heart has always been set in representing the country despite being born in England.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) We should approach aircraft manufacturers Boeing, Airbus, Embraer and Bombadier telling them that the Ecowas block will sign a 10-year exclusive supply deal with any of them that opens a plant in Nigeria

TERRORIST group the Islamic State of West Africa Province (Iswap) has executed three of its commanders including the son of Boko Haram founder Mohammed Yusuf  in what appears to be a spat over how to proceed with the war against Nigeria.

FORMER British prime minister Gordon Brown has thrown his weight behind Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's bid to become the next director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) saying she has a track record of delivery.

NIGERIAN-born US medical practitioner Dr Stella Immanuel has led a team of American doctors to Washington DC to push the case for Hydroxychloroquine being accepted as an effective cure for Covid-19 saying it cured 350 of her patients.

FORMER Nigerian agriculture minister Akinwunmi Adesina has been cleared of any wrongdoing by an independent panel set up to investigate him after the US accused him of corruption in the discharge of his duties as African Development Bank (AfDB) president.

FANS of newly-promoted English clubside West Bromwich Albion (WBA) have nominated Super Eagles centreback Semi Ajayi as a candidate for the club's player of the year in recognition of the remarkable season he has just had.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Apple - $1.6trn
(2) Microsoft - $1.54trn
(3) Amazon - $1.52trn
(4) Alphabet - $1.04trn
(5) Alibaba - $673bn
(6) Facebook - $665bn
(7) Berkshire Hathaway - $466.8bn
(8) Taiwan Semiconductor - $431bn
(9) Visa - $419.2bn
(10) Johnson & Johnson - $387bn

NIGERIAN health officials have expressed concern that America's President Donald Trump is yet to deliver on a promise his made in March this year to deliver 250 US ventilators to the country to assist in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic.