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Ayo Akinfe

This is what my National Economic Council would look like were I the one being sworn-in on May 29:

[1] Peter Obi

[2] Pat Utomi

[3] Kingsley Moghalu

[4] Charles Soludo

[5] Arunma Oteh

[6] Kemi Adeosun

[7] Wale Edun

[8] Shamshudeen Usman

[9] Uzoma Dozie

[10] Lamido Sanusi

Their mandate would be to replicate this Korean manufacturing model:

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's administration is set to pass on a N46.25trn ($100.63bn) debt burden to the incoming Tinubu government when it hands over power on May 29 according to figures just released by the Debt Management Office (DMO).

MEMBERS of the Borno State religious police the Hisbah spent the Eid Mubarak festivity holidays out on the town enforcing strict adherence to Muslim ways by cutting the hair of young men whose haircuts were deemed un-Islamic.

AFRICA'S richest man and lifelong Arsenal fan Alhaji Aliko Dangote is close to sealing a deal to purchase French Ligue Two side Valenciennes for an estimated sum of €10m in what would be his first foray into the European football market.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nations do not just become wealthy overnight. They do so because their citizenry do audacious things to create unprecedented wealth to move their society forward

[2] When I look at the UK and its Industrial Revolution for instance, I can see where Nigeria’s fault lines lie. You cannot be a nation of eternal consumers and expect to have the same living standards as countries that are serial manufacturers

NIGERIA'S National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) will commence the evacuation of stranded Nigerians from Sudan tomorrow with the first set of refugees moved by road from Khartoum to Cairo in Egypt.

OHANAEZE Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has joined the ranks of organisations that have congratulated Nigeria's president-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu sending him a goodwill message following his return from abroad today after about a month away.

NIGERIA'S minister of state for labour and productivity Festus Keyamo has hit back at critics calling him names for acquiring a house in the US saying he has not breached any government regulations and the property was not bought with public funds.

NIGERIAN commercial airline Air Peace has expressed its willingness to help evacuate the country's citizens stranded in Sudan free of charge following the recent outbreak of war between the government and paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

ARSENAL-owned goalkeeper of Nigerian extraction Ovie Ejeheri is enjoying some of his best form at the moment while out on loan to Finnish clubside Seinäjoen Jalkapallokerho popularly known as SJK enjoying his second successive clean sheet in the league.