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Maybe President Tinubu’s first act of 2024 should be to send a Nigerian Anti Tribal Bill to the National Assembly to ensure he has all the component parts of the country on board

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Pass a law making your state of birth your state of origin

[2] Pass a law making it compulsory to grant indigent status to anyone who has lived in a state for five years

[3] Categorise the use of the word tribe as hate speech. Only animals live in tribes. Europeans never refer to themselves as coming from tribes. Using the word tribe should attract a 12 month jail sentence

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Taag Angola Airlines to start flying into Lagos on a daily basis as from January next year

SOUTHERN African airline Taag Angola Airlines is to start a daily flight service to Nigeria with journeys between  Luanda and Lagos starting from January 8 as part of a plan to enhance continental travel and connectivity.

 

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Now that Aketi is gone the Southwest Governors Forum need to elect another chairman and get him to put together a programme of action that looks like this

 

Ayo Akinfe

[1] The South West Governor Forum shall provide loans with interest rates of no more than 5% interest to anyone wishing to delve into agriculture. Such loans will be tailored towards buying hybrid seedlings, pesticides, herbicides, fertilisers and farming equipment like tractors, water tanks, silos and barns

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Canada to open up its borders to caregiver professionals under two news schemes in 2024

CANADA has relaunched two programmes aimed at enabling migrant workers to gain entry into the country as caregivers and healthcare workers as part of a ongoing plan to boost its population through mass migration.

 

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10 things Governor Aiyedatiwa could do to convert Ondo State from an agrarian region into an industrial hub and make it one of Nigeria's biggest cash cows

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Build the world's largest cocoa plantation in Owena. Nigeria is currently the world's sixth largest cocoa producer with an output of about 245,000 tonnes and Ondo State is the largest producer in Nigeria. This Owena plantation should have an output of about 10,000 tonnes with the potential to rise to 50,000 tonnes

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Ondo State's deputy governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to be sworn-in today following Aketi's passing

ONDO State's deputy governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa is to be sworn-in as the substantive governor at 4pm today following the death of his boss Governor Rotimi Akeredolu who passed away in the early hours of this morning.

 

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Can you imagine the boost the global economy would get if Presidents Tinubu and Ramaphosa jointly announced that they want a 2024 African Marshal Plan on Dec 31

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Officially known as the European Recovery Programme, the Marshall Plan was an American initiative launched in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. Basically, the US transferred $13.3bn (equivalent to $173bn in 2023 to Western European economies at the end of World War Two to help them rebuild

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How about if President Tinubu declares 2024 the Nigerian Year of Fashion and unveils an ambitious textile manufacturing programme to turn the sector into a money spinner

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Cotton production will be expanded to match Pakistan’s 2.3m tonnes through the provision of single digit loans and hybrid seedlings to farmers. Nigeria currently produces only 105,000 tonnes of cotton, which is not enough to sustain a local manufacturing industry

[2] A Nigerian Tailors Guild will be formed as part of a regulatory regime. Only registered members will be authorised to sew clothes for members of the public

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Crystal Palace lead the fight to bring Bright Osayi-Samuel to England in January transfer window

SUPER Eagles fullback Bright Osayi-Samuel looks set to come to England during the forthcoming January transfer window as several Premier League and Championship clubs have stepped up their pursuit of him over the last few weeks.

 

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I would just love it if President Tinubu becomes an adhoc clergyman today mounting the pulpit and delivering a Christmas sermon titled I Have Been To The Mountain Top And Seen The Promised Land

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I foresee an African giant of a nation with a landmass of about 3m square kilometres. This will include about 800,000 sq kilometres of Sahara Desert

[2] I envisage a socialist secular nation with a population of 1bn people where power is devolved to the federating units

[3] I dream of a gross domestic product of about $30trn putting this mega African nation in sharp competition with China, India, the US and a United States of Europe

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