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NIGERIAN security forces have intercepted a sum of N60m ($145,000)  being taken to criminals as ransom fees collected for the freedom of captives who have been abducted by armed kidnappers.

Apparently, an assault carried out by a Nigerian Army squadron in conjunction with Nigerian Air Force special forces took out a number of the bandits during the operation. It is believed that among the hoodlums arrested during the assault were some members of the security forces.

FORMER Chelsea legend and assistant coach Eddie Newton has thrown his hart into the ring saying he would like to manage the Super Eagles as the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) steps up its quest for a new head coach.

LAMBETH Council’s Appointments Committee has recommended that Nigerian-born Bayo Dosunmu be appointed as the council’s chief executive subject to the approval of full council meeting in May.

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NIGERIANS resident in the UK will no longer be able to access fast-track applications of their passports which enable them to renew travel documents within 72 hours because the Nigeria Immigration Service has asked the London mission to halt the programme.

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[1] Mud huts
[2] Open pit latrines
[3] Barefoot children
[4] Street beggars
[5] People wearing rags
[6] Children not attending at least primary school
[7] People living in cardboard boxes
[8] Prostitution
[9] A local government not having a general hospital
[10] Villages being cut off from the rest of the world during the rainy season

SEVERAL Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidates of Igbo extraction have agreed to work together to produce a consensus aspirant as the race to next year's elections heats up.

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[1] Mobile phone handsets
[2] Plasma television sets
[3] Fridge-freezers
[4] Assault rifles
[5] Saloon cars
[6] Combined harvesters
[7] iPads
[8] Solar panels
[9] Electricity transformers
[10] Medical ventilators

STEEL experts have criticised the recent decision by the Nigerian federal government to engage a British firm in its attempt to revive the Ajaokuta Steel Company because it can no longer get hold of Russian experts due to the ongoing Ukraine war.

NIGERIA Diaspora Commission (Nidcom) chairperson Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has condemned the Polish government for detaining Nigerians and other African students who fled to their country from war-torn Ukraine in search of refuge.