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ISLAMIC body Muslim Rights Concern (Muric) has defended the recent brutal flogging of two students at a Koranic school in Kwara State for going to a party saying that it is the alternative to Nigerian youths appearing in the Big Brother Naija show.

NIGERIA has refrained from signing up to a global agreement that would compel all multinational companies to pay corporation tax of 15% of their earnings to all countries in which they operate.

NIGERIANS in the Greater London borough of Essex have elected interim officials to run the affairs of the newly-formed body put together to  harmonise their interests and represent them within the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk).

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Plantain - 6m tonnes 
[2] Papaya - 7m tonnes 
[3] Cocoa - 2.5m tonnes
[4] Pineapples- 3.5m tonnes 
[5] Maize - 350m tonnes 
[6] Beef - 13m tonnes 
[7] Palm oil - 40m tonnes 
[8] Coconuts - 20 tonnes 
[9] Groundnuts - 7m tonnes 
[10] Mangoes - 25m tonnes 

NIGERIA'S Super Eagles have revived their World Cup qualification hopes and ameliorated some of the humiliation they recently suffered in Lagos by beating Central African Republic 2-0 in Douala this afternoon.

SUPER Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr has used the excuse of midfielders Wilfred Ndidi and Alex Iwobi not playing to justify Nigeria's shocking loss to the Central African Republic in a World Cup qualifier yesterday.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Whenever a faith house builds a church or mosque, at least 20% of the construction must be dedicated to social housing

[2] All faith houses must be responsible for the roads that lead to their premises

[3] All faith houses must provide car parking on their facilities

[4] All faith houses must take it upon themselves to recover weapons from their adherents 

NIGERIA'S ongoing economic crunch has unfortunately claimed a life in Kogi State as a teacher identified as Khadija Yusuf from Obangede in Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State committed suicide over her inability to cater for her children.

GOVERNOR Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State has dismissed called for the balkanisation of Nigeria as economic suicide describing the agitation for the creation of an independent nation of Biafra as sheer madness.

ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) prosecutors secured a major victory today after an Abuja federal high court sentenced the son of the former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Force to jail for 14 years after finding him guilty of corruption.