NIGERIAN lawmakers are to add N500bn ($1.3bn) to next year's budget to help cover unanticipated costs before passing the 2021 Appropriation Bill in the National Assembly today.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's wife Aisha has debunked claims that she fled to Dubai amid concerns for her security in Aso Rock pointing out that she only travelled to the United Arab Emirates to get medical treatment.

ENGLISH Premier league side Sheffield United are lining up a bid of between €6m and €7m for Nigerian striker Josh Maja with a view towards prising him away from French side Bordeaux during the forthcoming January transfer window.

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[1] Nigeria currently has about 21.7m unemployed people, 10.5m out-of-school children, about 3m internal refugees and 90m people living below the UN acknowledged poverty of surviving on less than $2 a day. With the economic shutdown precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic, things can only get worse during the course of 2021

NIGERIA has been told she needs to set aside N540.4bn ($1.4bn) to purchase 218.m doses of the new coronavirus vaccine next month if the nation wants to combat the growing second wave of the pandemic currently sweeping across the globe.

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(1) Eagles - Kwara
(2) Leopards - Osun
(3) Giraffes - Katsina
(4) Gorillas - Cross River
(5) Hippopotamus - Rivers
(6) Lions - Taraba
(7) Hyenas - Adamawa
(8) Zebras - Borno
(9) Elephants - Yobe
(10) Camels - Sokoto

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has claimed that the recent abduction of 344 pupils from Government Science Secondary School in Karanka in Katsina State was designed to embarrass him and his administration.

GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwoolu has banned all forms of parties and carnivals across Lagos State over the Christmas festive period as part of a major preventative measure to combat the resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic.

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[1] Okada riders
[2] Fabric retailers
[3] Cocoa farmers
[4] Automobile spare parts traders
[5] Luxurious bus companies
[6] Fishermen who use trawlers
[7] Generator distributors
[8] Livestock herdsmen who use animal feed
[9] Major microphone users like churches and mosques
[10] Food crop farmers who use fertilisers

Why is this compulsory?

NIGERIA intends to host the World Summit for a Single Market in Africa in March next year as part of a renewed drive towards consolidating the continent's disparate economies and forging a stronger entity that can compete on the global market.