ENGLISH Championship side Stoke City have opted to give Chelsea's Nigeria-eligible teenage goalkeeper Prince Adegoke trials with a view to signing him up as a long term prospect.

Originally signed as an U13 youth academy product, Adegoke, 18, came through the ranks at Chelsea and signed his first professional contract with the club last year upon turning 17. Already well known to the Nigerian Football Federation, Adegoke was invited to the Golden Eaglets camp in 2019.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We have all gone over the realities of the current economic climate. In this post-coronavirus and cost-of-living crisis era, Nigeria and most other African countries are staring into the abyss. Our reality is that the prices and exports of our primary commodities have collapsed and as we manufacture very little, we are looking at huge debts and massive balance of trade deficits

FORMER Nigerian Medical Association president Dr Osahon Enabulele has been congratulated by the Nigeria in Diaspora Commission (Nidcom) over his recent election as the World Medical Association (WMA) president.

Founded on September 17, 1947, the WMA is a global association of physicians and Dr Enabulele takes over from Heidi Stensmyren of Sweden later this month. He in turn took over from David Barbe, of the US, who served  as the WMA president for the 2020/21 executive year.

FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar's 2023 presidential electoral campaign got off to a floundering start yesterday as five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors boycotted the official launch in Abuja.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari us reported to have secretly freed about 100 Boko Haram terrorists being held by security operatives in exchange for passengers kidnapped on the Abuja-Kaduna train earlier this year.

NIGERIA Diaspora Commission (Nidcom) chairperson Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa and the Nigerian high commissioner to the UK Ambassador Sarafa Ishola are among several prominent Nigerians honoured in this year's National Honours Award.

NIGERIAN striker Dipo Akinyemi has begun attracting interest from several English clubsides following his blistering form this season that has seen him emerge as the leading goalscorer in the Scottish Championship with 10 goals.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] We will get the federal government to buy the rights to the Volkswagen Beetle. Then enter into a pact with Innoson Motors where the government owns 25% of a joint venture that manufactures electric Beetles. Make Nigeria the world’s largest manufacturer of such vehicles

[2] We will build the world’s largest wind farm along Nigeria’s Atlantic coastline stretching from Calabar to Badagry 

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has dismissed the opposition to his same faith ticket by several prominent northern Christians as a minority viewpoint that does not represent the opinion of party members.

UNIVERSITY lecturers are planning to call off their eight month long strike that has crippled activities across the country's tertiary institutions in response to a recent National Industrial Court ruling which ordered them back to work.