ISLAMIC group Muslim Rights Concern (Muric) has lashed out at Yoruba pan-cultural organisation Afenifere for pointing to similarities between the flights of Prophet Mohamed to Medina and that of Sunday Adeyemo to Benin Republic.

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu's lawyers are confident that their client will receive favourable intervention from the UK following a recent application for London to intervene in his recent arrest.

MANCHESTER United fans have begun mounting pressure on the club's management to sign Super Eagles anchorman Wilfred Ndidi as a follow-on from the signing of centreback Raphaël Varane from Real Madrid.

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] Ajaokuta Steel Mill
No nation can industrialise without steel. Without it, you simply cannot go about manufacturing, so until we get that plant up and running, we are going nowhere. Come on now, we have been at this thing since 1979

NIGERIA'S revenue-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio has fallen to about 5% over the last year making one of the lowest on the planet according to a recent report just published by the World Bank.

LAGOS State Police Command has charged 48 Yoruba Nation protesters with unlawful protest and the killing of a woman before a Yaba chief magistrate’s court as a result of the demonstration held at Ojota on July 3.

NIGERIA has opened 1 1.5km bridge linking Etung Local Government Area in Cross River State with neighbouring Cameroon as part of a programme to enhance trade and boost commerce between the two countries.

YORUBA Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo has finally been transferred to a more humane detention facility and been given access to medical attention  after a Benin Republic high court accepted a plea from his lawyers that his civil rights be respected.

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has expressed fears that its leader Nnamdi Kanu have been killed in detention after the Department of State Services (DSS) failed to produce him in court yesterday.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] A Yaoundé-Douala-Calabar-Ikom railway line that will transport Cameroonian cocoa to the processing plant at Ikom in Cross River State

[2] A Lomé-Cotonou-Badagry-Apapa-Warri-Port Harcourt railway line that will link up West Africa’s coastal ports

[3] An Abuja-Niamey-Ouagadougou-Bamako-Conakry-Dakar railway line that will open up the Ecowas region to finished Nigerian goods