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Ayo Akinfe

[1] On August 3 1900, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company was founded by a gentleman named Harvey Firestone. Cashing in on the booming automobile market, Mr Firestone soon saw the huge potential for tyres

[2] Now, in 1926, the company opened one of the world's biggest rubber plantations in Liberia, West Africa, spanning over 1m acres. Why Nigeria did not seek a similar facility at independence is beyond me

NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may expel former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar over his refusal to concede defeat in this year's presidential elections despite the Supreme Court declaring the result as valid.

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.

NIGERIAN airline Air Peace has secured the required permits from the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to initiate flights to the United Kingdom as part of a bilateral air agreement which enhances direct flights between both nations.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Anyone who is a student of global manufacturing will know that nations which carve out niches in certain sectors always go on to do well. You just need to look at how Britain dominated shipbuilding for decades or look at what Japan and Germany are currently doing in the global automobile market

NIGERIA Labour Congress (NLC) officials have announced that they will be initiating a national strike as from Wednesday November 8 to protest the recent physical assault handed out to their national president Joe Ajaero.

PRESIDENCY officials have dismissed recent criticism of the supplementary budget by President Bola Tinubu listing a yacht as an item of expenditure saying that it was procured for the Nigerian Navy.

ENGLISH Premier League side Fulham have set their sights on Super Eagles striker Gift Orban with a view to purchasing him from Belgian side Gent during the forthcoming January transfer window.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Our current 36 states should be increased to 42 with seven representing each geo-political zone

[2] Each of our 42 states will control all the resources within its domain

[3] 50% of all generated revenue will be kept by the state

[4] 20% of raised revenue will be paid into the federation account

[5] 15% of raised revenue will be paid into a geo-political zone account

SUNDERLAND teenage defender Calvin Okike has committed his international future to Nigeria saying he would like to start off by playing for the Golden Eaglets in the forthcoming 2025 Africa U17 Cup of Nations qualifiers.