CIVIL rights activists who participated in last year's #EndSARS movement in Nigeria have win a significant high court battle after an Abuja federal high court told the government to halt proceedings and stay action in a criminal complaints against them.

CONTROVERSIAL Nigeria  Islamic body Muslim Rights Concern (Muric) has accused regional security outfit  Amotekun of intimidating other ethnic groups living and doing businesses in the southwest geo-political zone.

PRESIDENT Donald Trump has resorted to blaming his lawyer Rudi Giuliani for his impeachment by the US House of Representatives yesterday saying that the former mayor of New York did not defend him rigorously enough.

NIGERIAN-born midfielder Ebere Eze is poised to feature for Crystal Palace tonight when his club faces Arsenal in an English Premier League match despite facing disciplinary action for ignoring Covid-19 protocols over the weekend when he attended an FA Cup game.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) We have a 2021 budget of $33bn but are planning to borrow at least $14bn to fund it

(2) We are poised to spend $7.8bn importing used cars and motorcycles in 2021

(3) We have no plans whatsoever to join the rest of the human race in looking for a remedy to this virus. Has it occurred to us that if Nigeria developed a vaccine it would earn us at least five times more than crude oil does

DONALD Trump has become the first ever US president  to be impeached twice after the House of Representatives voted to remove him from office today in a historic development that saw 10 members of his Republican Party break ranks and vote with the Democrats.

NIGERIA has still not made any budgetary provision for the purchase of a Covid-19 vaccine despite plans to purchase about 218.m doses of the new coronavirus vaccine in a bid to combat the second wave of the virus.

REGIONAL body the Oodua People's Congress (OPC) has warned that the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) is planning to slip its members into the southwestern regional security output Amotekun with a view to undermining it.

LAGOS State government has opened a 300-cylinder-a-day oxygen plant at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Yaba as part of its ongoing battle against the coronavirus pandemic as the numbers of infected people continues to rise.

NIGERIA'S balance of trade deficit looks set to get significantly worse this year as the country is poised to import used cars and motorcycles valued at a total of N3trn ($7.83bn) in 2021 which is certain to create serious foreign exchange problems.