Throughout his campaign I never saw Bola Tinubu visit one factory. Now, how do we sell to him the policy of targeting specific industries like tyre production for instance

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 marketing tyres and his company was a pioneer in the mass production of them

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PDP rejects choice of Akpabio as senate president as party still remembers his shock defection

PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) senators-elect in Nigeria's forthcoming 10th senate have objected to the possible choice of former Akwa Ibom State governor Senator Godswill Akpabio as the next senate president.

 

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Nigeria to host Commonwealth youth summit later this month after successful London meeting

NIGERIA is to host a Commonwealth youth summit in Abuja later this month between May 9 and 12 after a recent meeting of heads of government in London agreed on the need to step up work on the subject.

 

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I would like to see Tinubu place an eagle in the middle of Nigeria’s flag as part of a package of drastic measures introduced to launch a New Nigeria and announce that we are open for business

Ayo Akinfe

[1] He should tell all state governors that as from October 1 2025, he will scrap the federal allocation regime. They thus have to start thinking about getting their states self-reliant

[2] Tinubu should also scrap government subsidies on all religious pilgrimages. If you want to go to Saudi Arabia or Israel, you are on your own

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APC caucus appears to have agreed to coronate Godswill Akpabio as next senate president

FORMER Akwa Ibom State governor Senator Godswill Akpabio and Hon Abbas Tajudeen may have been confirmed as the next senate president and speaker of the House of Representatives after a meeting to decide the matter was held yesterday.

 

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President Buhari is in London where he attended a Commonwealth summit yesterday and will be at the coronation today. I would have loved it if Bola Tinubu was on his entourage and they made a joint pitch to investors that looks like this

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria is willing to offer observer status Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas summits to countries whose companies invest a minimum of $10bn a year in the sub-region. This is to facilitate massive investment in West Africa with an annual minimum foreign direct investment (FDI) target of $500bn

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Welsh court hands Nigerian student 11 month suspended sentence for domestic violence

NIGERIAN UK student John Nwadiaju has been handed an 11 month suspended prison sentence for assaulting and abusing his wife Kosisochukwu Echem after a Welsh court found him guilty of domestic violence.

 

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Buhari asked to summon UK high commissioner to protest jail sentence handed out to Ekweremadu

FORMER All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant Adamu Garba has asked the federal government to summon the British high commissioner to Nigeria and protest the hefty jail sentence handed out to former deputy senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu.

 

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Nigeria-eligible Malachi Ogunleye among 10 youngsters offered contracts at Bournemouth

ENGLISH Premier Side Bournemouth have announced that 10 new first year scholars will join up with its U18 squad  next season with a Nigeria eligible defender Malachi Ogunleye named as one of them.

 

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With Tinubu all set to be sworn-in on the 29th, it may be an idea for Peter Obi to do an Al Gore and invest his energy in an environmental project

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Whatever candidate anyone might have supported in Nigeria’s last election, the fact remains that on the 29th of this month, Bola Tinubu is going to assume office. Win or lose, the election tribunal is not going to deliver a verdict for at least two months at the very least

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