NIGERIA is struggling to hold on to her doctors after her former colonial master the UK unveiled a new Health and Care Visa policy aimed at wooing health professionals from developing nations in response to the Covid-19 crisis.

BRITISH Airways (BA) retiring its entire fleet of Boeing 747 aircraft as part of a major restructuring exercise brought about in response to the economic impact of the disruption to international air travel caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

FORMER senate president Senator Bukola Saraki has won a landmark legal battle after a Lagos high court ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to return two houses it seized from him in Ilorin suspected to have been bought with looted funds.

NIGERIAN military commanders have now fully integrated the repentant 602 Boko Haram fighters into the army after they took an oath of allegiance the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the Borno State capital Maiduguri.

ARSENAL fullback Bukayo Saka has been told by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) that they will only consider inviting him to the Super Eagles camp if he shows a willingness to switch his nationality through Fifa.

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(1) Nigeria is the world’s fifth largest cocoa producer with an annual crop of about 250,000 tonnes. There are plans to radically expand this to at least 500,000 tonnes soon

NIGERIA'S Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has been described as a failed enterprise by the speaker of the Federal House of Representatives Hon Femi Gbajabiamila who said it does not have enough to show for its 20 years of existence.

FEDERAL Airports Authority of Nigeria (Faan) officials have lashed out at Governor Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State for violating Covid-19 travel guidelines by refusing to submit himself to a mandatory temperature check at the Port Harcourt airport.

FORMER finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has made her pitch before the general assembly of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) detailing why she should be selected as its next director-general pointing out that if appointed she would rejuvenate the body.

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rovers State has rescued the former managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Joi Nunieh from house arrest after security operatives surrounded her house in Port Harcourt this morning.