NIGERIA has asked the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to increase her production quota of 1.77m barrels a day in response to falling global prices after Brent crude tumbled to below $70 a barrel yesterday.

FORMER Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Professor Charles Soludo has been reinstated as the All Progressives Grand Alliance (Apga) gubernatorial candidate in Anambra State after securing a favourable ruling in an Awka high court today.

GERMAN Bundesliga giants Bayer Leverkusen are hoping to complete the signing of Liverpool winger Sheyi Ojo during the ongoing summer transfer window as a replacement for Demarai Gray who is on his way to Everton.

IJAW elder statesman and leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (Pandef) Chief Edwin Clark has dismissed plans by the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) to include the south-south geo-political zone in its planned breakaway republic.

YORUBA Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo currently being sought by the Nigerian security services is believed to have been arrested at Cotonou in neighbouring Benin Republic as he tried to board a flight to Europe.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I am committed to supporting life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole for public officials found guilty of corruption

[2] I am committed to the scrapping of Sharia law in all the 36 states of Nigeria. We live in a democracy not a theocracy so there should be a clear division between the state and religion

NIGERIANS heroes who lost their lives over the last year-and-a-half including those that succumbed to the dreaded coronavirus pandemic will be honoured at a special multi-faith service on August 7 organised by the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk).

BISHOP David Oyedepo's Living Faith Church popularly known as Winners Chapel has sacked about 40 of its regional pastors for not generating enough income from their parishes after a recent performance review found them wanting.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up

[2] At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division

[3] If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender and rise up against the odds

[4] Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change

NIGERIA'S labour minister Dr Chris Ngige has warned the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (Ipob) to stop mentioning his name in connection with the recent arrest of its leader Nnamdi Kanu saying he has nothing to do with security matters.