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SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has warned Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to stop seeking Igbo votes during his presidential campaigns as he has always disassociated himself from their cause since being elected.

NATIONAL Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) chairman Retired Brigadier Buba Marwa has suggested that all candidates vying for elective office in Nigeria should subjected to a drugs test prior to elections.

ENGLISH Championship side Birmingham City have signified an interest in signing one-cap Super Eagles striker Josh Maja at the end of the season as part of a push to launch a Premiership promotion drive.

Birmingham City are currently sitting 20th in the Championship table, with no hope whatsoever of gaining promotion this season. However, Birmingham is the UK's second largest city and Birmingham has a rich history behind it, including once winning the European Fairs Cup.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] A nation of 42 states with each of them generating at least $10bn in wealth annually

[2] A country accounting for 50% of global animal feed production with cassava and yam serving as the two main ingredients

[3] A country that had emerged as the world’s largest chocolate producer

[4] A health service that served as the world’s undisputed leader of tropical medicine

ENGLISH Premier League side Arsenal have given up on their hopes of signing Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen at the end of the season after his Italian club Napoli placed a €150m price tag on him.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Every state capital must be home to at least one waste-to-energy (WtE) plant that processes urban garbage into electricity

[2] Every industrial park must have a WtE facility where its waste is converted into power

[3] Every WtE facility will have a micro grid attached to it that can distribute the generated power within the state in which it is located

FORMER Italian goalkeeper Walter Zenga has declared his interest in managing the Super Eagles submitting his application to coach the team to the secretariat of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

Ayo Akinfe

[1] If we delve into the history of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, it is crystal clear that without Nigeria there simply would have been no global trade in human cargo

[2] By my estimation, about one quarter of all the slaves in the New World came from Nigeria. It is no accident that our shores were called Slave Coast and the word Nigger became a generic term for referring to all negroes

FORMER Plateau State governor Joshua Dariye, may receive back from the federal government as N500m ($1.2m) mansion located in Abuja that was forfeited after he was convicted of stealing N1.16bn while in office.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] It is criminal laziness bordering on a crime against mother nature for a country with 853km of Atlantic coastline to be importing fish. I do not know of any other nation in the same position that does so

[2] Again, this is a another case of crude oil making us lazy. We believed we had enough money to import anything we wanted so we allowed virtually every other sector of our economy to collapse