NIGERIANS living outside the country will now be able to purchase houses back home through the federal government under the new Diaspora Housing Scheme just launched by the minister of housing Architect Ahmed Dangiwa.

PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the recent gubernatorial elections Senator Dino Melaye has vowed to mount an international campaign against the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu.

ENGLISH Premier League giants Tottenham Hotspurs have emerged as new contenders looking to sign Super Eagles anchorman Wilfred Ndidi during the next summer transfer window alongside Catalan giants Barcelona.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] There are currently about 9m unemployed people in Nigeria. Between 4% and 5% of the population are without jobs. Most these are youths not trained or educated and lack the skills required in a modern economy

[2] Countries like Brazil and South Africa have successfully introduced public works programmes of late, soaking up millions of unemployed youths. Nigeria needs a similar sort of programme if she is to address her unemployed crisis

SUPER Eagles head coach Jose Peseiro has been issued with a query by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for inviting inactive players to camp for the forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and Kigali.

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[1] I have been studying the Finnish railway industry of late and am very impressed with the way they have used it as a basis for industrialisation. If only Nigeria showed 10% of their productivity, we would have a high-speed pan-African railway network

NIGERIA'S senate is to begin discussing a bill that will grant diasporans voting rights later this week as part of the ongoing review of the 1999 constitution according to the senate majority leader Senator Opeyemi Bamidele.

NIGERIA'S ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the final results of the Bayelsa State governorship election released today by the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) with incumbent Governor Douye Diri being declared the winner.

BOAVISTA leftback Bruno Onyemaechi is a doubt for Nigeria's forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and Zimbabwe taking place over the next week after picking up an injury in a league game over the weekend.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Let us start with Imo State where incumbentent Governor Hope Uzodinma already been declared the winner. Imo has always had a presence in the palm oil industry and should be home to numerous processing plants making soap, cosmetics, animal feed, lubricants, etc for both domestic use and export