NIGERIAN government aviation officials and private airline Air Peace have reached an agreement under which the company will reinstate some of the 100 pilots it recently laid off as part of a cost-cutting exercise in a bid to avoid nationwide industrial action.

WEST Bromwich Albion (WBA) could start its 2020/21 English Premier league season with an all-Nigerian centreback pairing after the club opened talks with Portuguese side Porto about bringing Chigozie Awaziem to the Hawthornes.

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NIGERIA is considering imposing visa restrictions on visitors from the US and several other countries in response to them  introducing similar limitations on the rights of Nigerians to visit their countries.

ONE of President Muhammadu Buhari's advisers the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (Pacac) Professor Itse Sagay has criticised the panel probing former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) acting chairman Ibrahim Magu.

RUSSIA has become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a Covid-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing which President Vladimir Putin says will soon be widely dispensed across the country.

NIGERIAN musician Yahaya Sharif-Aminu has been sentenced to death by hanging by the Kano State Sharia Court for blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad after he composed as song saying a West African cleric was a higher messenger of Islam.

ENGLISH Championship side Stoke City have joined the race to sign former Super Eagles skipper Mikel Obi as the demand for his services intensifies in the run-up to the start of the 2020/21 season.

Mikel, 33, is currently a free agent after parting company with Turkish club Trabzonspor in March following a dispute over the coronavirus pandemic. In 2006, Mikel joined Chelsea where he played for 11 years before moving to China with Tianjin Teda in 2017.

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[1] Given that there are 200m Nigerians with about 50% of them being 18 and over, we should have a 20-year plan to build 40m housing units over the next 20 years

[2] Of these 40m, the federal government will build at least 5m housing units in Abuja and Lagos each

[3] All 36 state and the 774 local governments must build houses as a matter of law

[4] Each state must build at least 10,000 housing units a year

NIGERIAN automobile maker the Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company has revealed that it has now developed to a stage whereby it uses as much as 60% of locally manufactured components in producing its vehicles.