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PAN-Igbo secessionist group the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob) has lashed out at those suggesting Ndigbo should plead to be allowed to produce Nigeria's next president in 2023 saying that Igbos are not beggars.

NIGERIA'S diaspora community in Britain has received a significant boost after the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk) welcomed six new members into its ranks.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria currently has about 21.7m unemployed people, 10.5m out-of-school children, about 3m internal refugees and 90m people living below the UN acknowledged poverty of surviving on less than $2 a day. With the economic shutdown precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic, things can only get worse during the course of 2021

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has filed a fresh suit against the Nigerian government accusing it of breaching his fundamental human rights while he is being detained  by the Department of State Service (DSS).

STRINGENT travel restrictions imposed on Nigerians visiting the UK as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could be lifted this week as the British government is planning to scrap its controversial red list with a less Draconian measure involving resting.

NIGERIA Diaspora Commission (Nidcom) chairperson Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has called ion Nigerians to emulate the Real Madrid player of Nigerian extraction David Alaba who recently donated N13.3m ($32,373) towards the campaign against open defecation.

NIGERIA is to introduce retaliatory travel bans on several countries as from tomorrow Tuesday December 14  in response to them restricting the entry of Nigerians under the guise of controlling the coronavirus pandemic by banning their airlines from landing.

AUSTIN Eguavoen has been appointed as the Super Eagles interim head coach by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) after it formally sacked German manager Gernot Rohr after over five years in charge of the team.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Increasing generated power from the current 7,000MW to about 50,000MW through a variety of sources like wind, solar, thermal, gas, hydro and waste recycling

[2] Initiating a Lagos Underground tube network. Lagos is the largest city in the world without an underground network. With 12m people and no metro, you will always take five hours to drive from one end of the city to the other

CONTROVERSIAL Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has revealed that his elder brother  has been kidnapped by bandits  in Zamfara State who are now demanding a hefty ransom fee for his release.