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Ayo Akinfe

(1) Any traditional monarch who confers a chieftaincy title on a person who has misappropriated public funds will be deposed. Their communities will be barred from replacing such a monarch for a 10 year period

(2) Any church or mosque that receives the proceeds of corruption will have its premises sealed and its operating licence revoked

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's wife Aisha has had her security detail returned to her with the controversial aide-de-camp Usman Shugaba restored to his position following a recent altercation with other State House officials.

SAUDI Arabian authorities are all set to carry out the death sentence on an atheist named as Ahmad Al-Shamri for making disparaging remarks about the prophet Mohammad after his appeal against the judgement was rejected.

NIGERIAN health officials have expressed alarm that as much as 60% of the population in the southeast geo-political zone do not believe in the existence of coronavirus and regard the whole virus matter as a hoax to mislead them.

SUPER Eagles hopeful Tosin Adarabioyo has been included in the Sky Bet Championship Team of the Week after putting in superlative performance for his club Blackburn Rovers during their 3-1 home win against Bristol City on Saturday.

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki has suffered a major setback in his bid to return to office in September after a Port Harcourt high court restrained him from participating in the primary elections of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to which he defected last week.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) First of all he should insist that a memorial be erected on the Burma/India border to honour the men of the West African Frontier Force and the East African Frontier Force who died there during World War Two. It was African troops who prevented the Japanese from invading India at great personal cost. Nobody ever acknowledges this

HEALTH workers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja have protested the fact that they have not been paid their allowances for the last three months despite putting their lives on the line to combat the pandemic.

LAGOS University Teaching Hospital (Luth) officials have revealed that about 40 members of staff have been infected with the Covid-19 virus over the last three months contracting the virus bit from their local communities and in the discharging their duties.

HEADS of governments of the 15 nations that make up the  Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) have unanimously backed Nigeria's former finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's bid to become the World Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general.