CHINESE aircraft manufacturer Diamond Aircraft has announced plans to expand its operations  into Africa with a special focus on Nigeria under an ambitious plan that will involve the opening of plants across the continent.

SOCIAL critic and  popular musician Charles Oputa popularly known as Charley Boy has promised to lead what he has termed the mother of all rallies next week when he organises a demonstration to protest against Nigeria's recent general elections.

NIGERIA'S Super Eagles have redeemed their battered image a bit today with a 1-0 victory over Guinea-Bissau in an African Cup of Nations qualifier thanks to a 30th minute penalty b winger Simon Moses.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Insecurity is by far Nigeria’s biggest headache at the moment. It is one area where President Buhari scored zero out of 10 and the incoming president must do something about it immediately 

[2] For me, Bola Tinubu must make an unequivocal statement on security by launching an unprecedented attack against Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa Province (Iswap) in Sambisa Forest 

NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been suspended its national chairman Senator Iyorchia Ayu after the ward executive committee of his Igyorov Ward of Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State moved against him.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I do not need to tell anyone that West Africa remains a dependent and parasitic backwater, that supplies the rest of the world with the world with nothing by raw materials. You can never build any form of prosperity with that kind of rigged arrangement that keeps you a dependant consumer 

NIGERIA'S new president-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has expressed fears about plans by some aggrieved politicians who lost out in the last elections to truncate the transition process by disrupting his planned swearing-in on  May 29.

BRITAIN'S Home Office International Operations has trained no fewer than 35 officers of Nigeria's Marine Command and Seaports Operations of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in recent weeks as part of a global clampdown on piracy and drugs.

EVERTON playmaker Alex Iwobi has promised Nigerian football fans that the Super Eagles will make amends for their woeful performance against Guinea-Bissau yesterday when they lost 0-1 at home in an African Cup of Nations qualifier.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] When I look at the way Nato nations are falling over each other to supply Ukraine with battle tanks, I weep for our dear African continent. When has the West ever assisted an African nation like that in say its battle against terrorists?

[2] Battle tanks are actually quite a rare commodity at the moment. Russia is having to roll out previously decommissioned Soviet era T-55 tanks as the war with Ukraine has created a scarcity due to the high casualty rate