NIGERIA currently accounts for about 11% of unregistered children across West Africa according to a recent report published by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) looking into the problem of street urchins.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria;'s president should insist that a memorial be erected on the Burma/India border to honour the men of the West African Frontier Force and the East African Frontier Force who died there during World War Two. It was African troops who prevented the Japanese from invading India at great personal cost. Nobody ever acknowledges this

LAGOS State House of Assembly has approved Governor Babajide Sanwoolu's request for the government to assume full ownership of Lekki Concession Company (LCC) under an ambitious buy-back plan.

LAWMAKERS in the National Assembly are considering a new bill that will decentralise the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) that will create 17 additional zonal commands and allow for operations to be carried out at state and local government level.

NIGERIA'S diaspora community in the UK has held the first ever multi-faith at a special event over the weekend where a Church of England clergyman and an imam from the Camberwell Mosque came together to pray for those lost to the Covid-19 pandemic.

GHANA and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have approved a visa-free travel agreement that enables citizens of both countries to visit each other without having to apply for travel documents of any sort.

STREETS across Anambra State have remained deserted today as local residents comply with the sit-at-home order issued by secessionist group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) to protest the arrest of its leader Nnamdi Kanu.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] There are a total of 42 facilities in Japan hosting the Tokyo Olympics. Obviously the pick of the bunch is the 72,000 capacity International Stadium Yokohama built at a cost of $1.4bn. Timber was used as a major component of the structure, all of it sourced from Japan in order to reduce environmental impact

GOVERNOR Willie Obiano of Anambra State has threatened all civil servants who dare abstain from work tomorrow in observance of an Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) sit-at-home directive that they will be sacked.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Procrastination is the thief of time - Charles Dickens

[2] We cannot afford the tranquillising drug of gradualism - Martin Luther King

[3] I believe in the fierce urgency of now - Dr Martin Luther King

[4] Justice delayed is justice denied - William Ewart Gladstone