ENGLISH Premier League club Fulham are preparing to offer Turkish side Trabzonspor €10m for the services of Super Eagles defender Chibuike Nwaiwu in a development that could see him team up with compatriot Calvin Bassey.

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[1] We appear to have forgotten that we still have a lot of polluted creaks in the Niger Delta to clean up. I once suggested releasing oil-eating algae into the environment to get rid of some of the oil slicks. How come nobody is suggesting this today?

FORMER Ivory Coast and Morocco manager and one-time Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) target Herve Renard has been appointed as Tunisia's new head coach following the recent sacking of Sabri Lamouchi after losing their first World cup match heavily.

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[1] Mining

[2] Manufacturing

[3] Trade finance

[4] Clean energy

[5] Mandarin

[6] Freight and shipping

[7] Infrastructural development

[8] Property development and mortgages

[9] International diplomacy

[10] Public transport

NIGERIA'S ongoing political drama in the run-up to next year's elections have taken another dramatic twist after an Abuja federal high court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) to de-register two of the country's main political parties.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Today, Lagos is the only state in Nigeria that can survive without federal allocation and crude oil receipts but alas, it is nowhere near uhuru. For all its dynamism and vibrancy, Lagos is nowhere near other global financial centres like New York, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Kuala Lumpur and Sao Paulo

FORMER Nigerian Army spokesman Retired Major General Abubakar Rabe has been buried in Katsina after armed hoodlums who kidnapped him and his wife handed his body over to the authorities yesterday following his death in captivity.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As part of the programme to industrialise Nigeria we can enter into an interim five year agreement that guarantees pledged quantities of cocoa, coffee, crude oil, rubber, palm oil, groundnuts, coconuts, gum arabic, cassava, yam, papaya, pineapples, etc in exchange for $100bn of foreign direct investment (FDI) annually

FORMER Rivers State governor and one-time aviation minister Rotimi Amaechi has apparently agreed to stand as the running mate to former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in next year's presidential elections.