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OYO State-born Justice Olukayode Ariwoola is to be sworn-in as the  new chief justice of Nigeria later today following the sudden resignation of the incumbent Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad who said he could no longer continue due to health challenges.

MOTHERS and grandmothers who have lived in the UK for decades are among dozens of people facing deportation to Nigeria and Ghana aboard a controversial Home Office charter flight that will leave the country on Wednesday.

NIGERIA Immigration Service (NIS) officials have released additional information about the David Nwamini the purported organ donor at the centre of the controversy involving former deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu showing that he is no minor but 21 years old.

ENGLISH Premier League side West Ham have stepped up talks with Spanish La Liga side Villarreal over Nigerian-born attacker Arnaut Danjuma in a bid to sign him up ahead of the 2022/23 season.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As a people, we are too passionate about our religious faiths. An overwhelming number of Nigerians want to go to heaven when they die but are not willing to lay down their lives for the country

[2] Nigerians are closely attached to their ethnic groups and traditional rulers. Thus acts as an impediment to integration

BRITAIN'S University of Lincoln has banned Nigeria's former deputy senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu from undertaking any further duties as a visiting professor of the institution in  response to his arrest for suspected organ harvesting.

ENGLISH Premier League side Nottingham Forest are looking to build on their recent signing of Nigerian striker Taiwo Awoniyi with the capturing of another Super Eagle in the form of Glasgow Rangers midfielder Joe Aribo.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] The federal government will offer free tuition right up until the end of secondary school to every Nigerian child

[2] Nigeria will spend 15% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on education

[3] Nigeria's federal government will fund the provision of free uniforms in all public schools

[4] Nigeria's federal government will fund the offering of one free school meal to all state primary and secondary school pupils

CONTROVERSIAL Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has formed a herder rights organisation known as the Nomadic Rights Concern (Noric) designed to protect Fulani cattle herdsmen across the country.

SUPER Eagles striker Taiwo Awoniyi has completed a club record move to English Premier League new boys Nottingham Forest after the side agreed to a £17.5m (€20.5m) transfer with his German clubside Union Berlin.