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MEN of the Bauchi State Police Command have arrested two residents of Zaki Local Government Area after a local man was shot dead while testing the efficacy of a gun charm which failed the protection test.

ENGLISH Premier League giants Liverpool have offered Nigeria-eligible teenage central midfielder Afolami Onanuga his first professional contract in a development which now makes him eligible to play for the senior team.

By Ayo Akinfe

ENGLISH Championship side Norwich City has sent Nigeria-eligible teenage striker Kenny Coker out on loan to National League South club Chelmsford City for the remainder of the season in the hope that he can get some first team action.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] On August 3 1900, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company was founded by a gentleman named Harvey Firestone. Cashing in on the booming automobile market, Mr Firestone soon saw the huge potential for tyres

[2] Now, in 1926, the company opened one of the world's biggest rubber plantations in Liberia, West Africa, spanning over 1m acres. Why Nigeria did not seek a similar facility at independence is beyond me

NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may expel former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar over his refusal to concede defeat in this year's presidential elections despite the Supreme Court declaring the result as valid.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Lagos State: Our commercial capital currently accounts for about one quarter of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP) and one third of non-oil GDP. However, we need to built on it and turn it into an international financial centre that matches London which generates $650bn a year or New York which generates $1.4trn a year.

NIGERIAN airline Air Peace has secured the required permits from the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to initiate flights to the United Kingdom as part of a bilateral air agreement which enhances direct flights between both nations.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Anyone who is a student of global manufacturing will know that nations which carve out niches in certain sectors always go on to do well. You just need to look at how Britain dominated shipbuilding for decades or look at what Japan and Germany are currently doing in the global automobile market

NIGERIA Labour Congress (NLC) officials have announced that they will be initiating a national strike as from Wednesday November 8 to protest the recent physical assault handed out to their national president Joe Ajaero.