Ayo Akinfe

[1] As a people, we are too passionate about our religious faiths. An overwhelming number of Nigerians want to go to heaven when they die but are not willing to lay down their lives for the country

[2] Nigerians are closely attached to their ethnic groups and traditional rulers. Thus acts as an impediment to integration

BRITAIN'S University of Lincoln has banned Nigeria's former deputy senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu from undertaking any further duties as a visiting professor of the institution in  response to his arrest for suspected organ harvesting.

ENGLISH Premier League side Nottingham Forest are looking to build on their recent signing of Nigerian striker Taiwo Awoniyi with the capturing of another Super Eagle in the form of Glasgow Rangers midfielder Joe Aribo.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] The federal government will offer free tuition right up until the end of secondary school to every Nigerian child

[2] Nigeria will spend 15% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on education

[3] Nigeria's federal government will fund the provision of free uniforms in all public schools

[4] Nigeria's federal government will fund the offering of one free school meal to all state primary and secondary school pupils

CONTROVERSIAL Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has formed a herder rights organisation known as the Nomadic Rights Concern (Noric) designed to protect Fulani cattle herdsmen across the country.

SUPER Eagles striker Taiwo Awoniyi has completed a club record move to English Premier League new boys Nottingham Forest after the side agreed to a £17.5m (€20.5m) transfer with his German clubside Union Berlin.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We live in a country whereby Nigerian general hospitals lack beddings, drugs and are characterised by filthy wards. To make matters worse, they are manned by unmotivated staff and of course our hospitals suffer from regular power cuts

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has ruled out the granting of bail to the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu saying that when he was once granted that privilege he absconded and fled the country.

PAN-Igbo group the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob) has pledged to commit former deputy senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife to the ancestors for speedy trial for being involved in child trafficking.

NOLLYWOOD actress Tonto Dikeh has emerged as the deputy governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the forthcoming 2023 general election in Rivers State.