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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.

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

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).

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

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.

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

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Steel - 10m tonnes

[2] Cocoa - 1.5m tonnes

[3] Natural gas - 100m cubic metres

[4] Rice - 10m tonnes

[5] Distributed electricity - 20,000MW

[6] Tarred roads - 200,000km

[7] Assembled automobiles - 500,000 units

[8] Bitumen - 10m tonnes

[9] Palm oil - 20m tonnes

[10] Clean energy - 5,000MW

NIGERIAN youngster Maxwell Mickie-Faseun has set a precedence in the English Premier League by becoming the first team mascot to appear wearing a Nigerian cap when he led Arsenal out against West Ham on December 28.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Africa is in the middle of earth, Nigeria is almost in the middle of Africa, so we are not just any nation. We should consider ourselves humanity's hope of the 22nd century. Let us start off buy aiming to be the world's largest manufacturer if electric cars by 2030. Let us come up with a revolutionary production regime that they will enable Innoson Motors to manufacture an electric 4x4 jeep for £5,000

SUPER Eagles head coach Jose Peseiro has released his list of 25 players for the forthcoming African Cup of Nations tournament starting in Ivory Coast next month with several surprises including recalls for old timers Ahmed Musa and William Ekong.