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GLOBAL footballing body Fifa has cleared Wrexham goalkeeper Arthur Okonkwo to represent Nigeria at senior international level paving the way for him to feature for the Super Eagles as early as next month if he is selected.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria has one of the worst rail policies on earth. We simply appear not to appreciate the value of freight in an economy. For starters, on a daily basis, Nigeria witnesses horrific accidents on her roads, many of them involving trailers. Our transport policy has got to be based on moving freight off the road and on to rail to help cut such deaths

NIGERIA'S Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister Nyesom Wike has led a delegation of Rivers State indigenes to London to condole the widow of Senator Barinada Mpigi who recently passed away after a brief illness.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Do you know that Michael Okpara dedicated 45% of his annual budget to education when he was the premier of the old Eastern Region? MI Power as he was called, had one mission and that was to catch up and overtake the Western Region in terms of education

FORMER presidential candidate and Anambra State governor Peter Obi has thanked Nigerians for their show of solidarity with him after he survived an assassination attempt in Edo State yesterday.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] One problem the UK faces now she is outside the European Union (EU) is that she no longer enjoys duty-free supply of fruits and vegetables from the Mediterranean region. Trust the Spanish, Italians, Greeks, French and Portuguese, to demand full market price for all the tropical fruits they sell to the UK now

ENGLISH Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers have issued a strong-worded statement backing Nigerian striker Tolu Arokodare condemning the recent spate of racial abuse he has received following his penalty miss against Crystal Palace.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We can complain, criticise and argue until we are blue in the face but the fact remains that Nigeria’s economy will not get any better until we industrialise. Until we start producing steel in significant quantities, all this talk about economic diversification is just hot air

NIGERIA'S federal government has just won a landmark ruling securing a major victory against British international technology contractor European Dynamics UK in a $6.2m arbitration case.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Build at least one silo in each of our 774 local government areas to store cash crops and food crops. We then need to build processsing plants around these silos with a goal of adding at least 50% value to every agricultural product we produce

[2] Get the Ajaokuta, Oshogbo and Aladja steel mills running at full capacity. Nigeria needs to produce at least 10m tonnes of steel a year