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(1) We need to build a holy city somewhere and name it Angelsville. We should sell it as a major tourist attraction like Paris Disneyland or Australia’s Tasmania. It should be the home of all sorts of biblical and mythical characters like black angels, burning bushes, winged humans, winged animals, centaurs, minotaurs, talking serpents, unicorns, etc. Let us aim to attract about 1m visitors a year 

NIGERIA'S external debt-to-revenue ratio ballooned to  400% last year from 8% in 2011 as a result of increased federal government borrowing according to former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Mallam Lamido Sanusi.

FORMER president Dr Goodluck Jonathan has called for the changing of Nigeria's electoral laws so courts can no longer determine the winners of elections as is currently the case that has resulted in governors getting elected on the basis of legal technicalities.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has claimed that Nigerian scientists working in vaccine in collaboration with Digital Immune Optimised Synthetic Vaccines in Cambridge in the UK  are close to producing a local coronavirus vaccine.

FORMER Super Eagles striker Odion Ighalo has lashed out at Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer saying he treated him unfairly during his recent stint at Old Trafford by not giving him enough playing time to prove himself.

HOUSE of Representatives speaker Hon Femi Gbajabiamila has been barricaded in his office inside the National Assembly complex this morning by legislative aides this morning who are protesting the no-payment of their allowances since 2019.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Open a 20,000 square kilometre National Game Reserve in Taraba State. Make it the world’s largest wildlife sanctuary. Designed along similar lines to South Africa’s Kruge National Park, it should employ about 5,000 park rangers to police and fight off poachers

BATTERED phone repair man Peter Onyuike who was physically assaulted on the orders of Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) chairman Danladi Umar has said that he will not be taking any further action on the matter in order not to infuriate the powers-that-be.

NIGERIA'S Debt Management Office (DMO) has warned that the federal government is storing up problems for the future with its increased borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

As of December 2020, Nigeria's public debt was N32.9trn ($86.3bn) according to the most recent official data available. Of this total,  N12.7trn ($33.3bn) was external debt, contracted by the federal government, while N20.2trn ($53bn) was domestic debt, including loans taken from banks.

GOVERNORS of the five states in Nigeria's southeast geo-political zone have decided to emulate their counterparts in the southwest of the country and establish a regional security outfit similar to Amotekun.