ENGLISH Premier League giants Arsenal have joined the ranks of clubsides looking to sign Nigerian centreback Emmanuel Fernandez currently setting the Scottish Premiership alight at Glasgow Rangers.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Our reality is that exporting primary commodities can no longer sustain us. He should invite the following global icons to Nigeria this year as part of a plan announcing that the country is open for business:

[1] Barrack Obama

[2] Richard Branson

[3] Pep Guadiola

[4] David and Victoria Beckham

[5] Mike Tyson

[6] Lionel Messi

[7] Elon Musk

[8] Usain Bolt

[9] Serena Williams 

[10] Jennifer Lopez

NIGERIA'S opposition parties have been offered a major lifeline in their quest to stand against President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in next year's elections after a favourable ruling by the Court of Appeal in Abuja today.

NIGERIA-eligible teenage striker Zebedee Kennedy is attracting interest from several English clubs who are looking to secure his services from Swedish side Mjallby ahead of the forthcoming transfer window.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Every single one of Nigeria’s 774 local government areas is compelled by law to complete the construction of at least one farm goods storage facility by the end of 2026. Such facilities must include warehouses and silos

[2] Farmers’ cooperatives will be local government-based and be given tax rebates if they build local on-farm storage facilities and silos in their rural communities

ENUGU and Ebonyi state governments have entered into agreements with Nigeria's federal government to help it achieve the goal of increased generated power by 4,000MW over the next three years.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] If we do not accept our shortcomings, we are never going to overcome them. Our problems in Nigeria are multi-faceted but they can be narrowed down to three things - we produce too little, intellectual laziness and ostentation greed. In 1922, Frederick Lugard spotted all this and summed us up perfectly in his book Dual Mandate

SUPER Eagles playmaker Alex Iwobi is now almost certain to miss out of the forthcoming Unity Cup taking place in London later this month after being stretchered off in the first half of a league match against Brentford yesterday.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Why not shame all those who want to marginalise and impoverish your people by floating a Niger Delta Petroleum Company to bid for oil blocks. It should be as commercial a company as Shell, Agip, Total, Mobil, etc

[2] They should built a massive refinery as Aliko Dangote has just done. Maybe make it a 1m barrels a day refinery located in say Degema or Opobo