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CALIFORNIAN authorities have denied the recent claims that Nigerian Internet fraudster Ramon Abbas popularly known as Hushpuppi was engaged in fraudulent activities that earned him as much as $400,000 while he still detained in a US prison.

NIGERIA'S changes of getting Crystal Palace playmaker Michael Olise to feature for the Super Eagles took a bit hit today after the midfielder was called up the French U21 national team ahead of the Euro qualifiers.

NIGERIA'S Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has just arrested another big fraudster who was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) wanted list when it nabbed clergyman Kelechi Vitalis Anozie.

FORMER Lagos State governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has been accused by the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) of sowing the seeds of discord between Nigeria's Igbos and Yorubas  with his misguided presidential ambition.

NEWLY elected Anambra State governor Professor Charles Soludo has apologised to all Anambrans for the recent fracas at his swearing-in ceremony when the wife of the immediate past governor Mrs Ebelechukwu Obiano went to inexplicably hit Bianca Ojukwu.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We do not need loans or grants but proper foreign direct investment (FDI) to build up our industrial capacity. Consequently, all recent coronavirus-related loans must be written off

[2] Nigeria needs at least $100bn of FDI annually. International development agencies must agree to press industrialised countries to offer tax rebates to their private companies that invest in Nigeria

PRESIDENT Vlodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine appears to have finally accepted that his country may not become a member of the Western military alliance the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato).

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has been visited by Yobe State governor and the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) caretaker extraordinary convention planning committee Governor Mai Mala Buni at his London home where he is recuperating.

NIGER Delta Congress (NDC) activists have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack and prosecute the managing of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Mallam Mele Kyari over the recent 107m barrels of crude oil that went missing.

FORMER chairman of the Presidential Implementation Committee on Maritime Safety and Security Air Vice Marshal Saliu Atwodi has had to forfeit property and cash to the federal government after a high court ruled today that they were the proceeds of crime.