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NIGERIAN opposition coalition the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has condemned the recent air strikes carried out by the US Africa Command (Africom) against Islamist militant camps in Sokoto State accusing President Bola Tinubu of outsourcing security.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] President Tinubu needs to ring President Trump today and make it clear that every year, Nigeria demands a minimum of $50bn in foreign direct investment. If the rest of the world is not prepared to put its money where its mouth is then they should not complain when Boko Haram do a Taliban on us

SECURITY experts have revealed that yesterday's air strikes against Islamist militants in Nigeria by the US War Department missed most of their targets despite President Donald Trump describing them as powerful and very deadly.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Given that the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is totally overwhelmed by the security situation, we need at least one new layer of security

[2] We will thus create regional security forces along the same lines as Amotekun. For them to become operational, these regional forces must be approved by their state houses of assembly and will operate across their geo-political zones to prevent governors using them as private armies

NIGERIA-eligible teenage striker Chizaram Ezenwata has signed his first professional contract with English Premier League giants Chelsea making the transition from being an academy player into becoming a fully fledged first team member,

ZAMFARA State government has launched an ambitious nursing scholarship scheme aimed at addressing the twin problems of a chronic lack of local healthcare services and mass unemployment of youths.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I foresee an African giant of a nation with a landmass of about 3m square kilometres. This will include about 800,000 sq kilometres of Sahara Desert

[2] I envisage a socialist secular nation with a population of 1bn people where power is devolved to the federating units

[3] I dream of a gross domestic product of about $30trn putting this mega African nation in sharp competition with China, India, the US and a United States of Europe

SUPER Eagles centreback semi Ajayi has promised that the team will learn from its mistakes in yesterday's opening game against Tanzania and try to finish off opponents when it is in the ascendancy during the rest of the ongoing African Cup of Nations.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Those of you who did chemistry will be familiar with this gentleman Robert Boyle, popularly referred to as the father of modern chemistry. He died in 1641 and when his study was visited after his death, they found a wish-list of 24 things he hoped man would achieve in the future

AMERICAN planes have been carrying out intelligence-gathering surveillance flights over large areas of Nigeria since late November according to a recently-published document by former US officials.