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SUPER Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr is planning to invite Crotone striker Simeon  Nwankwo to camp ahead of the next set of pre-World Cup friendlies in response to the poor form of several regulars like Alex Iwobi and Kelechi Iheanacho.

SECURITYMEN have arrested embattled and controversial Kogi West lawmaker Senator Dino Melaye at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja as he was about to board a plane to Morocco.

Over recent weeks, Senator Melaye has been at the centre of a storm amid reports that the police had issued a warrant for his arrest. Several weeks ago, the senator was said to have been declared wanted alongside Mohammed Audu, son of a former Kogi State governor Abubakar Audu.

NOBEL laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has given President Muhammadu Buhari until the end of July to end the murderous activities of Fulani cattle herdsmen and facilitate the return of displaced persons to their homes.

OBAFEMI Awolowo University (OAU) has suspended Professor Richard Akindele the accounting lecturer at the centre of the controversial audio conversation in which he demanded sex from a female student in return for passing her.

PORTUGAL's head coach Fernando Santos has written off Nigeria’s chances of advancing to the knockout stage of the 2018 World Cup saying the Super Eagles like other African teams will struggle to make it out of their groups.

PROTESTERS demanding the recreation of the defunct Republic of Biafra and campaigning against the alleged marginalisation of Igbos in Nigeria demonstrated near Buckingham palace yesterday as President Muhammadu Buhari met with Prime Minister Theresa May.

ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger has announced that he will be leaving the club at the end of the season ending his 22 year spell in north London and putting an end to speculation about his future.

Wenger, 68, will leave a year before his existing contract is due to expire having led the club to three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups. Appointed on 1 October 1996, the Frenchman is the Premier League's current longest-serving manager and has taken charge of a record 823 games.

FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has joined in the condemnation of President Muhammadu Buhari over his comments yesterday that Nigerian youth are lazy and expect the government to provide them with free social services for nothing.

NIGERIA'S senate has resumed sitting this afternoon after being closed due to pandemonium this morning following an attack by persons thought to be thugs hired by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege who was recently suspended for 90 legislative days.

FORMER finance minister and secretary to the federal government Chief Olu Falae has castigated the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari of not performing well expressing surprise that the president is seeking a second term given this.