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.

WORLD Health organisation (WHO) officials have selected Nigeria and five other African countries as production sites for the Covid-19 vaccine as part of a plan to globalise manufacturing to ensure effective distribution.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria is willing to offer European Union (EU) member states observer status at the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). This is to facilitate massive investment in West Africa with an annual minimum target of $500bn

PAN Niger Delta Forum (Pandef) leader Edwin Clark has warned former Lagos State governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu against seeking the  All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential ticket  saying he should leave it to younger candidates like the vice president.

PRESSURE association the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has called on the Abia State and the federal governments to arrest those responsible for the recent attacks on northerners in Umuahia within the next two weeks.

ENGLISH Premier league giants Newcastle United is planning to launch an audacious £45m bid for Nigerian playmaker Ebere Eze during the summer transfer window as part of an ambitious championship-chasing rebuilding programme.