Ayo Akinfe
This is a picture of a German train being sabotaged by French resistance fighters in 1944. In many cases, German military trains were blown up while in the engine shed before they could be deployed to the war front
Like all other resistance fighters across Europe, the French partisans could not match the Nazi military...
NIGERIAN teenager Max Oyedele has become the latest footballer to be involved in a three-way battle for his services at international level as England and Poland are both interested in getting him to feature for them as a senior.
Oyedele, 17, was born in Manchester, making him eligible to play for England but he also...
HUNDREDS of Nigerians are believed to be among the thousands of civilians evacuated from the town of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine after the belligerents agreed to a brief ceasefire so they could leave via a safety corridor.
For nearly two weeks now, Ukraine and Russia have been involved in a bloody war that has resulted in...
FORMER vice president Atiku Abubakar's American University of Nigeria (AUN) has stepped up the recruitment of some of the recent Ukrainian returnees inviting them to consider enrolling at the institution rather than return abroad.
Over the last week, Nigerian students studying un the Ukraine have been airlifted to Abuja as...
SEVERAL Nigerians living in Ukraine have rejected the federal government’s offer to return to the country insisting that it was more dangerous to return home than to live in their war-torn adopted country.
As of this morning, nearly 1,000 Nigerians who fled Ukraine to either Poland, Romania, Slovakia or Hungary have been...
OVER 400 Nigerians living on the Ukraine arrived in Abuja this morning as the ongoing evacuation programme initiated to airlift all 5,600 of them got underway with this first batch being flown in from Romania.
Earlier this week, Nigeria's federal cabinet approved a sum of $8.5m as funding for the evacuation of refugees...
NIGERIA'S federal cabinet has just approved a sum of $85m for the funding of the evacuation of Nigerian refugees stranded in Ukraine and its neighbours as the ongoing war in the Black Sea enters its seventh day.
Over the last week, what started out as sabre rattling between Russian and Ukraine has now metamorphosised into...
NIGERIA has finally put in place a plan to airlift its citizens stranded in Ukraine after the House of Representatives and foreign ministry officials agreed to start an evacuation on Wednesday following a meeting in Abuja today.
Ukraine is home to about 5,600 Nigerian students, most of them studying medicine because the cost...
NIGERIAN midfielder Nnamdi Ofoborh looks set to miss the start of the forthcoming league campaign with Glasgow Rangers after he was diagnosed with a heart issue during a pre-season test.
Ofoborh, 21, who featured for the Flying Eagles in the 2019 U20 World Cup in Poland, signed a four-year pre-contract agreement with...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) This year, about one third of Nigeria’s $33bn annual budget shall be funded by borrowing. We simply do not generate enough wealth as a nation to raise a paltry $33bn despite having a population of 200m
(2) Sadly, Nigeria is a mono-economy with about 95% of government revenue coming from crude oil exports. With...
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