ENGLISH League One side Sheffield Wednesday are confident that former Flying Eagles midfielder Fisayo Dele-Bashiru will sign a new contract with them that will keep him at Hillsborough for the foreseeable future.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nobody needs to be told that Nigeria can no longer rely on crude oil for survival. I am surprised that a national debate is not raging now about how we replace our petroleum revenue. We are certainly going to have to at some stage

PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) election campaign officials have faulted the recent endorsement of the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu by several leaders of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political group Afenifere.

LONDON-based Ben TV has been voted as the best diaspora television station at the recent Nigerian Media Awards in Lagos that honoured the doyens of the industry who have done the nation proud through sterling journalism.

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has accused Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman Senator Iyorchia Ayu of refusing requests to resign because he wants to remain in charge of party finances which he has not accounted for since assuming office.

FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has dismissed as speculative a report by Fitch Ratings predicting that the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu would win next year's presidential elections.

FORMER Super Eagles defender Efe Ambrose has signed a short-term deal with Scottish Championship side Greenock Morton to play for them until the end of the season in the hope that he can help the club gain promotion to the Premiership.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We have a port crisis on our hands. Simply put, Apapa cannot deal with the amount of cargo coming into and going out of Nigeria. In addition, Apapa does not have the rail links to connect it to the rest of the country, which has resulted in the area becoming one of the most polluted ghettos on the planet. It is an environmental time-bomb waiting to explode, which will have disastrous consequences when it detonates

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa: He commissioned Kainji Dam, built Victoria Island from scratch, founded Unilag in defiance of everyone’s advice and built the Asaba-Onitsha bridge. He also extended our railway network to Ilaro, Baro and Kaura Namoda

NIGERIA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Korea's Daewoo Group for the rehabilitation of the Kaduna refinery under the terms of a pact between the company and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC).