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Ayo Akinfe

(1) Yesterday, Saudi Arabia announced that foreign pilgrims will not be allowed to make the annual hajj pilgrimage this year due to coronavirus fears. Basically, they adhered to Plato’s theory of “The chief good,” subordinating their religious and economic interests to the greater good of mankind

MEMBERS of Nigeria's Federal House of Representatives have raised concerns over the country's growing debts to China as the federal government keeps entering into loan agreements which lawmakers say could jeopardise the nation's independence.

NIGERIAN author Irenosen Okojie has won the AKO Caine Prize for African writing with her short story Grace Jones which deals with the unique questions of trauma and identity as well as pleasure and escape.

NIGERIA'S military high command has confessed that it does not have the necessary manpower to tackle the ongoing violence in the southern part of Kaduna State following the recent attacks that has led to the deaths of about 55 people.

NIGERIAN Diaspora Commission (NDC) chairman Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has made a passionate plea to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to pay the allowances of its students in the UK as many of them are now destitute.

NEW Glasgow Rangers leftback Calvin Bassey has declared himself available for the Super Eagles whenever Nigeria wants him  pointing out that his heart has always been set in representing the country despite being born in England.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) We should approach aircraft manufacturers Boeing, Airbus, Embraer and Bombadier telling them that the Ecowas block will sign a 10-year exclusive supply deal with any of them that opens a plant in Nigeria

TERRORIST group the Islamic State of West Africa Province (Iswap) has executed three of its commanders including the son of Boko Haram founder Mohammed Yusuf  in what appears to be a spat over how to proceed with the war against Nigeria.

FORMER British prime minister Gordon Brown has thrown his weight behind Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's bid to become the next director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) saying she has a track record of delivery.

NIGERIAN-born US medical practitioner Dr Stella Immanuel has led a team of American doctors to Washington DC to push the case for Hydroxychloroquine being accepted as an effective cure for Covid-19 saying it cured 350 of her patients.