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SUPER Eagles goalkeeper Francis Uzoho has completed a season-long loan transfer to Spanish second division clubside Elche after the team and his parent club Deportivo La Coruna reached an agreement yesterday.

FORMER sports minister and a key loyalist of senate president senator Bukola Saraki Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi is to run for Kwara State governor at the next election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

NIGER and Benin Republics have both paid Nigeria $10m after the federal government threatened to disconnect their electricity supply over unpaid bills under a power-sharing agreement that the three countries have.

SOUTH African authorities have impounded a Russian Nigerian-bound ship at the Port of Nura near Port Elizabeth City loaded with arms and ammunition that were stacked into 20 containers.

SUPER Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr has published the list of 24 players invited for next month's African Cup of Nations qualifier against Seychelles calling up several exciting youngsters like Kelechi Nwakali and Henry Onyekuru.

SECESSIONIST group the Biafra Independence Movement (Bim) has launched an income tax regime aimed at raising revenue to fund its proposed breakaway republic which it wants to carve out of Nigeria.

OWERRI prison authorities have denied recent rumours of them maltreating the 112 women currently being detained for leading a protest earlier this week during which they demanded to know the whereabouts of Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu.

MEN of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have dismissed suggestions that former senate minority leader Senator Godswill Akpabio was attacked by armed thugs this week pointing out that the gunmen were armed robbers attacking a nearby petrol station.

NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has given President Muhammadu Buhari 24 hours to arrest the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) leaders following their threat to forcefully remove senate president Senator Bukola Saraki.

FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and presidential aspirant Omoyele Sowore have both mocked President Muhammadu Buhari's 800 metres walk from the Daura prayer ground saying that they run for much longer distances.