ENGLISH Premier league giants Newcastle United have added Super Eagles leftfullback Zaidu Sanusi to the growing list of Nigerian p[layers it is hoping to sign when the summer transfer window opens at the end of the season.

GOVERNOR Gboyega Oyetola of Osun Sate has clinched the gubernatorial ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) after seeing off a challenge from the former secretary to the state government Alhaji Moshood Adeoti.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Jollof rice

[2] Fried rice

[3] Asun

[4] Suya

[5] Pepper Soup

[6] Isi-ewu

[7] Egusi stew

[8] Okra

[9] Yam porridge

[10] Abula

NIGERIA recorded a 3.4% increase in gross domestic product (GDP) during the course of 2021 in the first major sign that the economy is coming out of the recession according to recent statistics published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

NIGERIAN-born  coach Victor Ogunwusi has been named as the new manager of England’s Kent County Football League side Crockenhill FC and is set to take charge of his first match today against K Sports Reserves.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] I still cannot get my head round why apartheid and Jim Crow produced global heroes but in the case of Nigeria, oppression tends to produce complicit rogues 

[2] Why does all this corruption and mis-rule not radicalise the populace and lead to the emergence of another ANC? Is there something about us that defies logic?

GOVERNOR Babagana Zulum of Borno State has described as very scary recent findings showing that as many as 31.6%  of the teachers employed in his state are incompetent with as many as 22.1% of them not even being trainable.

NIGERIAN sprint queen Blessing Okagbare has been handed down a hefty 10 year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for breaching its doping rules after she was found guilty of a drugs test failure.

NIGERIA'S federal government has signed an interconnected mini-grid acceleration scheme (Imas) award grant agreement with eight indigenous solar grid developers under an ambitious plan to develop 23 mini-grids across 11 states of the federation.

NIGERIAN academic Emmanuel Ikechukwu Umeonyirioha has been inducted first Igbo language lecturer at the UK's University of Oxford as part of an ambitious programme to extend the institution's curriculum.