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MEMBERS of the House of Representatives has passed the 2022 budget into law with the annual allocation to the National Assembly rising to N139bn ($337.29m) despite the hard times the country is facing.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has revealed that the world football governing body is still consulting with the organisers of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations and there is an outside chance they could postpone the tournament until September.

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] Last year, Rotimi Amaechi was in China to look at the railway carriages being built. He will take delivery of 20 coaches but alas, this is nowhere near good enough. Nigeria cannot continue to be an eternal consumer. No economy has ever grown when it operates that way

NIGERIA is to be offered a loan of $210m by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to help fund the creation of special agro-industrial processing zones across the country as part of an economic diversification plan.

MEMBERS of Nigeria's House of Representatives have questioned the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) for engaging the services of private consultants to handle visa and passport issues at the nation’s missions abroad.

SECRETARY to the government of the federation Boss Mustapha has added his voice to the number of Nigerians who believe that the country's next president should come from the southeast geo-political zone.

KADUNA State's commissioner for budget and planning Muhammad Dattijo has been appointed as an associate and founding member of the Dunning Africa Centre of the University of Reading's Henley Business School.

NIGERIA'S Super eagles have suffered another major striking blow ahead of next month's African Cup of Nations as targetman Paul Onuachu has been ruled out of the tournament with a hamstring injury.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Last year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report in which it warned that Nigeria’s debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio was growing at an alarming rate

[2] Although borrowing is still within reason as the federal government’s external debt of $40bn is still less than 10% of GDP, the way it is growing gives cause for concern. It is only a matter of time before it gets out of control

SUPER Eagles interim head coach Austin Eguavoen is set to recall Watford's Emmanuel Dennis and mercurial playmaker Kelechi Nwakali back into the team ahead of the impending African Cup of Nations starting in Cameroon next month.