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NIGERIANS are facing a very bleak summer period as the cost of basic foodstuffs has soared by over 100% over the last year and looks set to continue spiralling for the foreseeable future according to a recent survey published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

BRITAIN'S Duke and Duchess of York Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will not be meeting with President Bola Tinubu during their three day visit to Nigeria because their trip is a private and not an official one according to  high commission in Abuja.

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For starters, we need mega manufacturing plants in the following sectors:

[1] Okada riders
[2] Fabric retailers
[3] Cocoa farmers
[4] Automobile spare parts traders
[5] Luxurious bus companies
[6] Fishermen who use trawlers
[7] Generator distributors
[8] Livestock herdsmen who use animal feed
[9] Major microphone users like churches and mosques
[10] Food crop farmers who use fertilisers

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[1] Cocoa - We need to boost our annual harvest to 1m tonnes from the current 330,000 tonnes

[2] Rice - We need to boost our national harvest to 10m tonnes from the current 4m tonnes

[3] Sugarcane - We need a 10m tonne crop, up from the current 38,000 tonnes

[4] Palm oil - We need to boost output to 20m tonnes from the current 1m tonnes

[5] Wheat - We desperately need to boost production to about 10m tonnes from the current 60,000 tonnes

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has ended speculation about his whereabouts and returned to Nigeria after a two-week absence that saw him visit Saudi Arabia and the Netherlands flying into the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.

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[1] We appear to have finally woken up to the economic potential of Nigeria’s Atlantic seaboard. We have 853km of coastline, which is a cashcow and goldmine. We should consider the construction of the Lagos-Calabar Expressway as the first step of a major action plan

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Food items we can package as fast food king of like pizzas, kebabs and McDonald’s:

[1] Abula

[2] Suya/asun/kilishi

[3] Pepper soup

[4] Jollof/fried rice

[5] Moi-moi and ogi

[6] Gari and fish

[7] Nkwobi

[8] Fried yam and akara

[9] Yam porridge

[10] Pounded yam and egusi

Here is the strategy:

NIGERIA'S first ever graduate from Britain's illustrious Sandhurst Royal Military Academy Second Lieutenant Oluchukwu Owowoh has been hosted by first lady Oluremi Tinubu in Abuja over the weekend who described her as exemplary.

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[1] Like every other economy in the world, Nigeria lives at the mercy of supply and demand fundamentals. We are thus particularly vulnerable to inflation as with a population of 200m, there is always going to be a massive demand for consumer goods

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[1] Nigeria will offer free tuition to every child right up until the end of secondary school

[2] Nigeria will spend 15% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on education

[3] Nigeria’s federal government will provide free uniforms in all public schools

[4] As a nation, we will offer one free school meal for all state primary and secondary school pupils