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Afenifere general secretary Sola Ebiseni declares his intention to run for Ondo governor

AFENIFERE general-secretary and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart Chief Sola Ebiseni has announced his intention to run for Ondo State governor when the contest takes place later this year.

 

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Do we really have the right to demand that we be treated as equals with the rest of humanity when about 80 years after World War Two we are unable to even manufacture basic British and German aircraft?

Ayo Akinfe

[1] If you ask me, there is something fundamentally missing with us Africans as human beings that fails to explain our intellectual laziness

[2] Faced with the constant threat of terrorist attacks, Nigerian munitions manufacturing should be thriving in an unprecedented manner at the moment.

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Leeds United eye Bright Osayi-Samuel as January transfer window looks set to open

ENGLISH footballing giants Leeds United are planning to purchase Super Eagles rightback Bright Osayi-Samuel during the forthcoming January transfer window as the club plans for a swift return to the Premier League.

 

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Would you not just love it if President Tinubu sent a Nigerian Civic Responsibility Bill to the National Assembly which included a Contract With Nigeria which all public officials were compelled to sign when being sworn-in

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Every local government must set up a cooperative fund and encourage people to pay into it

[2] Local government chairmen should hold monthly public town hall meetings in all 774 local government areas in the country

[3] As from February 1 2024, the federal government will be launching a Buy Nigeria First consumer goods policy

[4] All public officials must resign their positions if they chose to go abroad for medical treatment

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Arsenal offer scholarship deal to Nigeria-eligible teenage central midfielder Andre Annous

ENGLISH Premier League giants Arsenal have offered Nigeria-eligible teenage box-to-box midfielder Andre Annous an academy scholarship for the course of the 2004/05 season as part of a plan to promote him into the first team.

 

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Why do I get the impression that I am the only Nigerian embarrassed by the fact that the world’s largest black nation is not an aircraft manufacturer

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Let me start off by reiterating that Nigeria’s fundamental problem is that her economy lacks the required productive capacity to sustain a nation state. We simply are not productive enough, we manufacture next to nothing, import too much and do not create jobs

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Ndidi ruled out of Nations Cup as NFF call up Antwerp's Alhassan Yusuf to replace him

WILFRED Ndidi has been ruled out of Nigeria's African Cup of Nations squad with injury and been replaced with Royal Antwerp midfielder Alhassan Yusuf as the Super Eagles camp opens in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

 

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Let us forget about the Nigerian government for a moment and ask why the people cannot set themselves the targets of creating the world’s largest manufacturing facilities in the following sectors during the course of 2024

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Palm oil plantation

[2] Cattle ranch

[3] Coconut plantation

[4] Solar farm

[5] Electric car assembly line

[6] Transformer manufacturing factory

[7] Cocoa plantation

[8] Oilseed crushing plant

[9] Malaria pharmaceutical plant

[10] Solar panel assembly plant

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UK government introduces new law stopping foreign students from bringing in family members

BRITAIN'S Home Office has announced plans to introduce a new Draconian immigration policy that will prohibit foreign students from bringing their dependents into the country to stay with when during the course of their study.

 

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Nigerians may not be aware of it but Japan, which suffered a New Year’s Day earthquake is the most earthquake-prone nation on the planet. Nigeria needs to enter into a mutual exchange agreement with Tokyo on the matter

 

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

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