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BRITAIN's diplomatic mission in Nigeria has announced a temporary suspension of the Flexi Appointment regime known as the walk-in service whereby applicants can  turn up without appointments and get seen at its visa application centres (Vac).

CHIGOZIE Awaziem could be out of the 33rd African Cup of Nations after it emerged that he is nursing an injury which is far worse than originally thought and is likely to keep him sidelined for a few weeks at the very least.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Receiving inducements to vote incompetent people into office

[2] Buying foreign designer goods which they know our economy cannot sustain

[3] Refusing to ostracise those inducted with corruption. Today, even the likes of James Ibori and Orji Uzor Kalu who were jailed for corruption still wield political clout

[4] We take a stance on matters depending on the ethnicity of the person in power

UNITED Arab Emirates (UAE) immigration officials have opened a visa application and document attestation centre at the office of their Lagos consulate to help speed up the processing of travel documentation.

AIR Peace's millionaire chairman Allen Onyema has made a cash donation of N10m ($24,165) to the members of the Super Eagles to reward them for their 1-0 victory of the Pharaohs of Egypt yesterday.

SOCIO-cultural group the Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum (YRLF) has backed the suggestion that Nigeria's next president should come from the southeast geo-political zone as 2023 should be the turn of the Igbos to produce the country's leader.

FORMER Oyo State governor Chief Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala has passed away at his home in Ogbomosho during the early hours of today at the age of 71 prompting incumbent governor Seyi Makinde to order flags fly at half mast.

NIGERIA has suddenly become one of the favourites to win the 33rd ongoing African Cup of Nations tournament taking place in Cameroon after the Super Eagles beat the Pharaohs of Egypt 1-0 in their opening game yesterday.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria has got to be the only country in the world with 853km of Atlantic coastline and is yet still a net importer of fish. For me, the absence of a fishing industry in Nigeria highlights the effects of this atrocious oil doom and shameless dependency on crude oil

FORMER Ministry of Petroleum Resources director of legal services Grace Taiga has been slapped with a 13-count corruption charge by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at the resumption of her trial in Abuja.