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Ayo Akinfe

[1] We have flogged the issue of cattle ranches to death and called for the construction of several mega ones across northern Nigeria. Tinubu has to pledge to send a bill to the National Assembly on day one, making open grazing illegal

[2] Nigeria’s six biggest states by landmass will each be home to a mega ranch of at least 50,000 square kilometres. Borno, Niger, Taraba, Yobe, Bauchi and Kaduna all have the land to spare for this

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) officials have given all commercial banks and other financial institutions a 30-day deadline within which to close accounts who owners do not have a bank verification number (BVN).

NIGERIA'S ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) appears to backtracking on plans to impose a set of leaders on the National Assembly with signs that it may declare a free contest for principal officers of both the senate and House of Representatives.

PLANS to float the proposed new national carrier Nigeria Air before the end of President Muhammadu Buhari's tenure on May 29  appear to be in serious jeopardy as negotiations between aviation ministry officials and Ethiopian Airlines have not yielded fruit.

EMBATTLED chairman of one of the factions of Nigeria's Labour Party Lamidi Apapa has denied receiving a sum of N500m ($1m) as a bribe in order to scuttle the party's ongoing case before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja.

SCOTTISH Premiership champions Celtic are being linked with a summer move for American-born Nigerian striker Eduvie Ikoba with a view to signing him from his Hungarian club Zalaegerszegi during the forthcoming transfer window.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Pre-pandemic in 2019, US foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide totalled $5.96trn. As the world’s largest black nation and Afriva’s largest economy, Nigeria wool from henceforth attract 10% of all such investment

[2] Within the US itself, FDI during that period totalled $246bn, with about $125bn of this coming from Japan. The US will press Japan to invest in Nigeria too

NIGERIAN Yemi Mobolade has been elected as the new mayor of Colorado Springs in the US state of Colorado becoming the first black man ever voted into office to lead the city despite being a political upstart.

PRESIDENT-elect Bola Tinubu has held a brief telephone conversation with US secretary of state Antony Blinken during which he promised to deliver institutional reforms and development programmes to deepen Nigeria's democratic institutions.

AFROBEAT musician Seun Kuti us faxing the prospect of being charged with more offences than just assaulting a policeman after the men of the Lagos State Police Command ransacked his residence in search of evidence to charge him with a separate crime.