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NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials have concluded plans to appoint former Cameroonian manager Winfred Schafer as the new Super Eagles head coach over the coming weeks.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] When I hear Nigerians complain about petrol price rises, I feel like tearing my hair out of my head. Have they been oblivious to the whole clean energy debate? Where have they been when the rest of the human race has been screaming about the need to abandon the use of fossil fuels?

NATIONAL Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) officials have arrested Ibadan businesswoman Adewunmi Dorcas some of her accomplices for attempting to smuggle cocaine out of Nigeria via the United Kingdom.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] My government gives you a solemn pledge that it will provide security and ending the current scourge of banditry, kidnapping and criminality taking place across Nigeria

[2] We promise to boost the share of government non-oil revenue to 50% from the current 10%

[3] Our federal government promises to build at least 40,000 housing units a year to augment whatever the 36 states are building

FORMER presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has been released from custody and had his international passport returned to him after he was briefly detained at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos this morning.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Kogi state can attract the likes of Siemens to build a 10,000MW hydro-electric power plant at Idah

[2] Kogi State can build a Niagara Falls-type tourist attraction at the confluence of the rivers Niger and Benue at Lokoja

[3] Taraba State can open the world’s largest nature reserve in Gembu

[4] Niger State can open the world’s largest cattle ranch in Mokwa

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria’s NNPC needs to be privatised like yesterday with the government holding a stake of no more than 25% on it. Foreign partners should hold about a 50% stake, with the company floated on the Lagos, New York, London, Frankfurt and Tokyo stock exchanges

SUPER Falcons head coach Randy Waldrum has resigned from his position as manager of the Nigerian senior women's national team as a result of the a domestic family matter after his wife took seriously ill.

NIGERIA Air Force's (Naf) Flying Officer David Sangokoya has been awarded the International Sword of Honour for 2023 at the Royal Air Force College in Cranwell in the  United Kingdom after emerging as the best international cadet on his course.

NIGERIA'S Super Falconets have crashed out of the ongoing U20 Women's World Cup in Colombia after succumbing to a 1-2 loss to Japan in the Round of 16 at the Estadio Metropolitano de Techo in Bogota last night.