SUPER Falcons skipper Desire Oparanozie is still involved in a race against time to get fit for the ongoing Women's World Cup as she hopes to be available for selection ahead of Tuesday's final group game against the Republic of Ireland.

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

MALLAM Salihu Lukman the ruling All Progressives Congress's (APC) national vice chairman northwest has resigned has resigned from his position citing interference in the affairs of the party for his decision.

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu's list of ministerial nominees has been presented to the Nigerian senate by his chief of staff Hon Femi Gbajabiamila who handed it over to the senate president Senator Godswill Akpabio who in turn read it out.

NIGERIA'S Super Falcons are on the verge of qualifying for the knockout stages of the ongoing Women's World Cup after securing a dramatic 3-2 victory over co-hosts Australia in Brisbane this morning in their second group game.

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] Set Nigeria an annual target of producing 35m tonnes of steel. This will match Brazilian output and put us on the same trajectory as sister developing nations like Mexico, Iran, Taiwan, South Korea and Vietnam

[2] Announce a radical scrap metal collection programme. This will involve using all the money collected from corrupt officials to buy all scrap metal. Maybe call it the Industrial Trader Metal Money Programme

SENATORS who served in the ninth National Assembly have demanded an apology from for former Edo State governor Senator Adams Oshiomhole after he accused some of them of carting away furniture from their offices when their tenure ended.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I have always believed that it is our innovative spirit that will get Nigeria out of the economic doldrums and give us a gross domestic product (GDP) of $2trn in the not-too-distant future. Unfortunately, this cursed liquid called crude oil is acting as a huge distraction at the moment. It is a real fly in the ointment and at some stage we need to turn the taps off to get us thinking

FORMER Kano State governor Dr Abdullahi Ganduje has intensified lobbying in his bid to emerge as the next national chairman of Nigeria's All Progressives Congress (APC) amid growing opposition to his appointment.