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NIGERIAN care assistants and nursing home staff may be coming to Britain in large numbers this year after the UK Department of Health and Social Care announced plans to expand its Health and Care Visa Scheme to recruit more care workers.

KATSINA State Police Command has recovered 109 pieces of anti-aircraft ammunition and arrested 999 suspects in various operations as part of a clampdown on terrorist activities within the state.

NIGERAN park ranger Suleiman Saidu has won the 2021 Wildlife Ranger Award worth £30,000 at the yearly prestigious Tusk Conservation Awards in appreciation of the work he does to protect elephants from poachers.

England youth international Ashleigh Plumptre has been given the go-ahead to switch her international allegiance to Nigeria after Fifa approved her nationality thus enabling her to feature for the Super Falcons from now on.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Couples who marry a spouse who happens to come from a different ethnic group and have an alternative religion will receive a N1m Wedding Bonus

[2] Anyone who builds a house in a part of the country where they did not originate will be exempt from local taxes for 10 years

[3] Government scholarships will be given to students willing to study the languages of other Nigerian ethnic groups

NIGERIA'S Chinese community has donated food items to low-income earners and orphanages in Lagos as part of its contribution to the less well-off in the country during the festive period.

VISITORS to Nigeria's presidential villa in Aso Rock will have to take lateral flow tests upon arrival under the terms of a new health regime being introduced this year as part of measures to contain the spread of the virus.

WORLD acclaimed conservationist and fossil hunter Richard Leakey whose groundbreaking discoveries helped prove that humankind evolved in Africa has passed on at the age of 77 at his home in Kenya.

Dr Leakey, a famed palaeoanthropologist had remained energetic into his 70s, despite bouts of skin cancer and kidney and liver disease. This morning, President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya announced Dr Leakey’s death in state media, saying he did so with deep sorrow.

WORLD Bank officials have warned that Nigeria may have one of the highest inflation rates globally in 2022 as the incessant rise in consumer prices is pushing basic goods and services beyond the reach of most average Nigerian households.

FORMER Watford and Manchester United striker Odion Ighalo is not likely to feature for Nigeria in the forthcoming African Cup of Nations after his Saudi Arabian clubside Al Shabab indicated that it will not be releasing the player for the tournament.