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BRITAIN'S deputy high commissioner to Abuja Ben Llewellyn-Jones has restated the country’s commitment to Nigeria's rich cultural heritage and creative industries pledging that London will continue to support them.

NIGERIA'S federal government is planning to import 60,000 broken-down tractors under its Agricultural Mechanisation Programme as part of an ambitious plan to diversify the economy and end the over-dependence on crude oil.

BRITAIN has defended its recent decision to offer political asylum to members of secessionist groups like the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob) saying it is an international obligation.

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has called on Nigeri9ans to reject the explanation that communications minister Sheikh Isa Pantami is now a reformed character and has abandoned his extremist Islamic positions of the past.

ENGLISH Premier League giants Arsenal have joined the race to sign Super Eagles winger Samuel Chukwueze at the end of the season as the club looks to strengthen its weak forward line after what has been a disappointing campaign.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Nigeria's economic and human development indicators will be compared annually with those of other Mint nations like Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey and Brics nations like Brazil, India, Russia, China and South Africa, to ensure we never fall behind. If we have a gross domestic product of say $5trn, we will not be the subjects of ridicule we currently are

EMBATTLED communications minister Sheikh Isa Pantami has defied critics calling on him to resign after he was listed on the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) terrorist watchlist and turned up at today's Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja.

ENUGU State has become the latest victim of the growing insecurity sweeping across the southeast geo-political zone after armed gunmen attacked the Divisional Police Headquarters at Adani in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of the state and carted away weapons.

MEN of the Ekiti State chapter of the Amotekun Corps have freed the traditional ruler the Obadu of Ilemeso Ekiti Oba David Oyewumi  and arrested six of his kidnappers after mounting a daring raid on their hideout in Kwara State.

BRITAIN has adjusted its asylum rules on Nigeria recognising that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) and other secessionist groups are facing persecution from the federal government and is now offering them political asylum visas.