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BRITAIN has agreed to return to Nigeria £4.2m of the loot former Delta State governor Chief James Ibori stole from the country and stashed away in London banks as part of a staggered repatriation plan.

NIGERIA'S federal government has announced ambitious plans to expand farm output as part of an economic diversification plan that involves the increase of the agricultural extension workforce to 75,000 individuals from the current 45,000.

ABOUT 60 Nigerians resident in China have been stranded in Nigeria for over a year now as a result of the suspension of issuing entry visas into China by the consulate-general and the local Chinese embassy.

OYO State police commissioner Ngozi Onadeko has revealed that the seven persons arraigned in connection with the Shasha market crisis last month are to be released after she received legal advice indicating that they have no case to answer.

ECONOMIC analyst Bismarck Rewane has warned that Nigeria needs to enjoy economic growth of between 7% and 8% per annum between now and 2030 if she wants to achieve a gross domestic product (GDP) of $1.5trn required to make live at ease with herself.

TOTTENHAM Hotspurs manager Jose Mourinho is stepping up pressure on the club's management to sign Nigerian winger Paul Mukairu this summer before his ongoing exploits in the Belgian league spark off an expensive bidding war.

Ayo Akinfe 

(1) As the debate the future of Nigeria rages, many people are clamouring for the dissolution of states and replacing them with regions as federating units. However, that proposal is based on raw nostalgic emotion that does not stand up to scrutiny 

(2) During the First Republic, our regions were too large and unwieldy. Premiers were located in their regional capitals far away from the nooks and crannies of their regions 

POPE Francis 1 gas urged Nigerian Christians to stop being tribalistic in their approach to appointments and take the moral high ground by showing love to all human beings and treating everybody as equals.

YORUBA agricultural producers cooperative the Agbekoya Farmers’ Association has warned Fulani herdsmen's group Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore that it faces severe consequences if it does not obey the ban on open grazing introduced across southwest Nigeria.

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) leaders in Zamfara State have been accused of offering N56m ($146,000) to the bandits who recently kidnapped 279 pupils from Government Girls’ Secondary School (GGSS) Jangebe to forestall their release.