Ayo Akinfe

[1] I am a historian and know that the industrialised world would not be where it is today without all the mergers and amalgamations over the centuries. We had the reunification of Germany and Italy, England and Scotland signed a Union Treaty creating Great Britain and then of course we had the 1776 US Declaration of Independence and the subsequent growth of 13 states into 50 with a series of amalgamations

SUPER Eagles centreback Calvin Bassey has completed the first part of his first medical with English Premier league side Fulham ahead of his impending transfer to the club in preparation for the start of the 2023/24 season.

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu has instructed his self-styled successor Simon Ekpa who is currently operating out of Finland to  end the ongoing sit-at-home protests currently taking place across the southeast geo-political zone.

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