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PAN-cultural Igbo organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo has urged the federal government to expand its ongoing negotiations with several leaders from across the southeast over Nnamdi Kanu to include releasing other youths detained across the geo-political zone.

NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials have expressed delight about the fact Leicester City winger Ademola Lookman will now be eligible to feature for the Super Eagles having been cleared by Fifa to represent the country.

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

NIGERIA'S Federal Inland Revenue Service (Firs) has introduced self-service stations where taxpayers can file tax returns and validate tax clearance certificates among other services using digital technology.

DOMESTIC and international investors increased their investments in Nigeria by a whopping 39% last year amid signs that the country is gradually recovering from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic according to official figures just published.

AS many as 1.4m children are said to be facing malnutrition across northeast Nigeria over the next year due to the effects of the Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province (Iswap) insurgency according to the United Nations.

NIGERIA'S foreign minister Geoffrey Onyeama has been summoned to appear before the House of Representatives to discuss the poor state of the country's foreign missions with many of them struggling to remain functional.

ENGLISH Premier League side Arsenal has become the latest team seeking to sign Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen after it emerged that Ginners manager Mikel Arteta has made him the club's main priority in the summer after a move for Alexander Isak fell through.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] An intellectually lazy people will always be an impoverished people. Why has Nigeria not cashed in on the commercial opportunities the crocodile provides? 

[2] Are Nigerians aware of the fact that in Louisiana alone, alligator farming is a $60m to $70m industry annually? I am a big fan of crocodiles simply because they are the oldest living animal we know. They co-existed with the dinosaurs and are still standing 

LAWMAKERS in Nigeria's House of Representatives have just passed an anti-medical tourism bill that will punish public office holders who seek medical treatment abroad with a seven year jail term or a N500m ($1.2m) fine.