NIGERIAN-born playmaker Michael Olise is poised to join English Premier League giants Leeds United from Championship side Reading during the current January transfer window in a £8m move.

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(1) In March 2014, Reverend Warnock led a sit-in at the Georgia State Capitol to press state legislators to accept the expansion of Medicaid offered by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

(2) He and other leaders were arrested during the protest

(3) From June 2017 to January 2020, Reverend Warnock chaired the New Georgia Project, a nonpartisan organization focused on voter registration

TRIBUTES have been pouring in for Nigerian medical doctor Augustine Obaro who passed away on New Year's Day after succumbing to complications when he contracted the dreaded coronavirus during the course of his work as a general practitioner.

TEN of Nigeria's 29 power plants are currently lying idle because they are unable to sell the electricity they generate to transmission and distributions companies (Discos) resulting in more blackouts because of the reduced available wattage.

TRAGEDY was recently avoided in Calabar when one of the magistrates currently protesting outside the governor's office of the non-payment of their two year salary arrears by the Cross River State slumped but was immediately resuscitated by colleagues and state house staff.

LEADING Republican attorney in the US state of Georgia Byung Pak has reigned as a prosecutor with the state's legal department as Georgians go to the polls today to elect two senators in a Congressional run-off election that could define the Biden presidency.

NIGERIAN teenage goalkeeper and former England U16 international Kelechi Chibueze has signed his first professional contract with English Premier League side Leicester City after successfully completing trials at the club.

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(1) All churches and mosques must manufacture the megaphones, microphones and loudspeakers which they use to terrorise their neighbourhoods

(2) Every state must generate at least its running costs. If it fails to do this over two successive quarters, a state of emergency will be declared and the state will be run by the National Assembly

BRITISH medical professor Sir John Bell has warned that the vaccine developed to combat the dreaded Covid-19 virus may not be effective against the new South African strain thus making mass vaccination ineffective.

NIGERIA only attracted 4% of the $75bn foreign direct investment (FDI) ploughed into Africa's oil and gas sectors during the four year period between 2015 and 2019 according to the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI).