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Ayo Akinfe

[1] Lagos State: Our commercial capital currently accounts for about one quarter of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP) and one third of non-oil GDP. However, we need to built on it and turn it into an international financial centre that matches London which generates $650bn a year or New York which generates $1.4trn a year.

FORMER president Dr Goodluck Jonathan has arrived safely in Abuja after the Nigerian government evacuated him and other election observers from Guinea-Bissau following a military coup there earlier this week.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] For starters, we should aim to become the world’s number one producer of the following animal products by 2030:

[i] Cattle

[ii] Snails

[iii] Pigs

[iv] Poultry

[v] Mackerel

[vi] Goats

[vii] Turkeys

[viii] Ducks

[ix] Grass cutters

[x] Impala

[2] I for one would ringfence this sector and give it a minimum target of generating $20bn in foreign exchange earnings by 2030

NIGERIA'S Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge filed by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) Nnamdi Kanu disputing the right of the Nigerian authorities to detain and try him for terrorism.

NIGERIAN Grammy Award-winning musician Burna Boy has suffered an unprecedented humiliation in the US as organisers were forced to cancel a show he had planned in Minneapolis today because fans refused to buy tickets.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] First of all, we must aim for six mega cattle ranches and when they are fully operational, we should aspire to dramatically increase the number of cows in Nigeria from the current 20m to say the 189m produced in India today. This expansion in output will automatically present a new set of challenges which will need to be addressed. Will the Fulani be the harbingers of Nigeria’s industrial revolution?

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu declared a nationwide security emergency ordering the security forces to immediately expand recruitment and deploy thousands of additional personnel in response to the incessant spate of kidnappings over the last few weeks.

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has been warned by a US Congressman investigating the ongoing allegations of persecution of Christians in northern Nigeria that he will be held responsible should anything happen radical Plateau State clergyman Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Continues to espouse the dependence on the federal allocation formula which ties Nigeria’s fortunes to crude oil exports indefinitely

[2] Advocates further prospecting for crude oil at a time when the whole world is moving towards clean energy

[3] Seeks to keep Nigerians divided along ethnic and primordial lines

[4] Seeks to fuel religious divisions or brings matters of faith into government

NIGERIA is all set to soon appoint a substantive high commissioner to the UK after President Bola Tinubu forwarded the names of three ambassadorial nominees to the senate for approval with one of them expected to be posted to London soon.