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Frank Onyeka gains promotion to English Premier League with Coventry City

SUPER Eagles midfielder Frank Onyeka has regained his Premier League status after his new club Coventry secured promotion from the English Championship last night with three games to go after playing a draw with Blackburn Rovers.

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I would like the Yorubas of Kwara and Kogi get their Odo Oya State, which should become part of the southwest geo-political zone. Then the seven governors can pursue an aggressive agenda like this

Ayo Akinfe

[1] The South West Governors Forum shall provide loans with interest rates of no more than 5% interest to anyone wishing to delve into agriculture. Such loans will be tailored towards buying hybrid seedlings, pesticides, herbicides, fertilisers and farming equipment like tractors, water tanks, silos, barns, etc

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Fifa president shatters hopes of Nigerian fans insisting that Iran will participate in World Cup

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has shattered the hopes of Nigerian football fans who are still holding on to the forlorn hope that the Super Eagles might get to go to the World Cup by declaring that Iran will be participating in the tournament.

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World athletics body rejects Turkeys attempt to poach Nigerian sprinter Favour Ofili

NIGERIAN sprinter Favour Ofili will not be allowed to represent Turkey in future sporting events after World Athletics rejected her request to switch nationality saying such moves discourage countries from developing home-grown talent.

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Now that we have had the time to fully digest the details of President Tinubu’s state visit to the UK, we can now put together a shipbuilding plan. Our former colonial masters owe it to us to turn Nigeria into a maritime power

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I have always regarded the 1851 capture of Lagos as the date when the British colonisation of Nigeria began. That was the year when John Beecroft the British consul of the Bights of Benin and Biafra, lined up his naval gunboats off the coast of Lagos and forced Oba Akintoye to sign a treaty of protection handing over the city to Britain

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Arsenal promote Nigerian teenager Ogunnaike to first team ahead of tonight's clash against Sporting

NIGERIA-eligible teenage defender Josh Ogunnaike has been promoted to Arsenal's first team by manager Mikel Arteta ahead of the club's Uefa Champions League clash with Portuguese giants Sporting Lisbon tonight.

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Italians are the Europeans most similar to Nigerians. It is time we leveraged on this, making Italy a source of about $30bn in FDI annually

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigerians and Italians have an identical fashion sense. This should be the foundation of a bilateral trade agreement, starting with shoes. We need to get the likes of Santoni, Gucci, Salvatore, Prada, Ferragamo and Tod's to open joint ventures with local counterparts in Aba

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Nigeria becomes a net exporter of petrol as Dangote's refinery sells 44,000 barrels during March

NIGERIA has become a net exporter of refined petrol for the first time in her history this week after the Dangote Refinery in Lagos exported about 44,000 barrels of produce to neighbouring African countries during the course of March.

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Nigeria needs to use the current Middle East crisis as the opportunity to totally revamp her petroleum industry, modelling the NNPC along the same lines as Malaysia’s Petronas

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria’s economic woes all stem from the fact that we are not productive enough as a people. Our Southeast Asian brethren have shown us the way to get out of this rut, especially the South Koreans with their conglomerates known as chaebols, such as Samsung, LG and Hyundai and Malaysia with Petronas

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