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I for one am desperately waiting for Tinubu to create a Nigerian Directorate of Reverse Engineering to end this our shameless and parasitic dependency on imports

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We are just over a month into the new government and we are still waiting for President Tinubu to name his new ministers. However, if he is serious about lifting 100m people out of poverty, he needs to come up with a plethora of unprecedented job-creating initiatives

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Ribadu promises Nigerians that they will -establish peace and stability across the nation

NATIONAL Security Adviser Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has assured President Bola Tinubu and the entire country that security agencies will accomplish the objective of securing Nigeria as well as re-establish peace and stability across the nation.

 

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Ganduje could be in trouble after Kano anti-graft agency arrests his works commissioner

FORMER Kano State governor Dr Abdullahi Ganduje could be facing prosecution shortly after the State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission arrested his commissioner for works and infrastructure Engineer Idris Saleh.

 

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Nigeria-eligible teenager leaves Liverpool academy to sign first professional contract in Spain

NIGERIA-eligible teenage winger Elijah Gift is all set to leave English Premier League side Liverpool for Spanish club Athletic Bilbao having already undergone a medical and put pen to paper on a five year contract.

 

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I challenge Bola Tinubu to combat Nigeria's urban transportation nightmare with a twin policy of introducing rail networks and launching an aggressive motorcycle manufacturing programme

Ayo Akinfe

 
[1] If we were a right thinking people, the motorcycle could radically transform the Nigerian economy. By my calculations, Nigeria is the world's fifth largest user of motorcycles behind India, Vietnam, Indonesia and China, yet despite that we do not manufacture one machine

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Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth Council urges southeast residents to ignore sit-at-home order

OHANAEZE Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has urged residents of the southeast geo-political zone to ignore calls by the self-declared leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra  (Ipob) Simon Ekpa to spend the next week sitting at home.

 

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PDP and Labour Party condemn presidency for rejecting EU's criticism of elections

NIGERIA'S opposition parties have lampooned the presidency for rejecting the European Union's (EU) final report on the February 25 presidential elections which described them as flawed and lacking in transparency.

 

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Coventry City take Nigerian teenage central midfielder Ifeoluwa Oni on week-long trials

ENGLISH Championship side Coventry City has offered versatile Nigerian central midfielder Ifeoluwa Oni a week-long trial with a view to signing him up during the current  transfer window.

 

Oni, 18, is on the lookout for a new club following the expiry of his contract with Birmingham City at the end of last month.  Apart from being able to play as an anchorman or as a box-to-box midfielder, Oni can also be deployed at right-back, left-back, right wingback and left wingback.

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If Tinubu is indeed the astute and shrewd politicial operator he is reputed to be, he will cut the ground beneath the feet of the Labour Party with a set of southeastern palliatives that look like this

 

Ayo Akinfe

[1] He will declare that he will only serve one term and then say he will support both the APC and PDP fielding presidential candidates from the southeast come 2027

[2] He will immediate reclassify the Indigenous People of Biafran (Ipob) as a socio-cultural organisation

[3] Call a meeting and get the South East Governors Forum to take over the Eastern Security Network (ESN) and turn it into a regional security body similar to Amotekun

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Security agencies busy vetting Tinubu's list of potential ministers with details expected this week

SECURITY agencies are currently vetting the list of President Bola Tinubu's ministerial nominees ahead of an impending announcement due over the next fortnight when the list will be forwarded to the National assembly for vetting.

 

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