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Ayo Akinfe

[1] As people, 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 - intellectual laziness, ostentation and short term greed. In 1922, Frederick Lugard spotted all this and summed us up perfectly in his book Dual Mandate

NIGERIAN exports to the US fell by almost N1trn during the first none months of 2025 leading to a chronic balance of trade deficit as a result of President Donald Trump placing punitive tariffs on goods from overseas.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Every one of Nigeria’s 774 local government areas must have at least one industrial estate. Failure to establish one within one year of assuming office will make a local government chairman liable to face criminal, treason and economic sabotage charges

[2] No licences will be issued to any faith house to open a church or mosque unless such premises also involves the construction of an industrial complex which shall employ at least 50 people

ENGLISH Premier League giants Tottenham Hotspurs are looking to bring Nigerian teenage defender Honest Ahanor to White Hart Lane during the forthcoming January transfer window as part of a plan to revive their flagging season.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Every second, the sun’s core fuses about 600m tonnes of hydrogen into helium and in the process converts 4m tonnes of matter into energy. This energy, which can take between 10,000 and 170,000 years to escape the core, is the source of the sun’s light and heat

FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua is being prepared for a major showdown with long term rival Tyson Fury later this year following his successful bout against former YouTuber Jake Paul last night.

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has promised to arm several new security outfits over the coming years including members of state police forces and forest rangers as part of a renewed drive to combat the growing insecurity across Nigeria.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] With an internal market of 200m people and a further 150m consumers across the Ecowas sub-region, Nigeria has a captive automobile market and simply has to exploit this to the maximum

[2] As a people, we need to make a solemn pledge to at least assemble locally every passenger car used in the country. Importing finished cars has got to become a criminal offence

BESIKTAS midfielder Wilfred Ndidi has been named as the new Super Eagles captain to replace the now-retired William Troost-Ekong ahead of the forthcoming African Cup of Nations due to start this weekend in Morocco.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Let me reteriate the point that Nigeria is not productive enough. Every other problem we face as a nation stems from this basic fact

[2] Cast you minds back to around 1970 and 1971 when Nigeria was enjoying 25% gross domestic product (GDP) growth. There were no religious extremists, terrorists, armed bandits, secessionists, public officers stealing their whole budgets, civil servants looting pension funds, etc