FORMER Super Eagles defender Efe Ambrose has been appointed as a member of the coaching crew at Scottish Premier League side Livingston being named as the assistant coach of the reverse team yesterday.

(1) The NNPC is to be privatised with the government holding a stake of no more than 25%. Foreign partners will hold about a 50% stake, with the company floated on the Lagos, New York, London, Frankfurt and Tokyo stock exchanges

(2) The NNPC will be recalibrated as a diversified conglomerate with a presence in manufacturing, agriculture, steelmaking, food processing, automobile assembly, power generation, shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, rail franchise operations, aviation, etc

MEMBERS of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Campaign Council for Ondo State governorship elections have challenged Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to account for the sum of over $10m received from foreign donors as cOVID-19 palliatives.

CIVIL society organisation Save Democracy Coalition (SDC) has called on the US and European Union (EU) authorities to extend their visa travel ban on Nigerian politicians who participate in electoral fraud to  unscrupulous judges who commit judicial tape too.

ADAMAWA North Senatorial District's lawmaker Senator Elisha Abbo has been fined N50m ($131,174) by an Abuja high court for assaulting a female member of staff at a sex toy shop in May last year.

IGBO indigenes living in Kano State will not be allowed to celebrate the New Yam Festival this year after a high court issued an ex parte motion stopping all activities until the hearing of a substantive motion before it.

AUSTRIAN authorities have revealed that they may allow as many as 10,000 fans to attend the Super Eagles' friendly games taking place on October 9 and 13 at the Jacques Lemans Arena in the southern town of Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia State.

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(1) Last week, Julius Berger announced that it will be diversifying into the agriculture and food business. For me, this is a welcome development as the bane of the Nigerian economy is that we lack productive conglomerates who can mass produce goods

NIGERIA'S Super Eagles will now play African champions Algeria in a friendly on October 9 after their original opponents Ivory Coast pulled out citing logistical challenges as the Elephants already have two games lined up during the window.

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(1) A a Yaoundé-Douala-Calabar-Ikom 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 line that will link up West Africa’s coastal ports

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