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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.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I must confess that I for one have very little faith in this incoming administration. Everything is pointing to more of the same old stuff but alas, let us see if Bola Tinubu can surprise us

[2] Napoleon Bonaparte once said: “A newborn government must dazzle and astonish.” If the Tinubu administration wants to do this, it needs to tackle the urgent problems of insecurity, power supply and above all our limited manufacturing capacity

PRESIDENT-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is return to Nigeria tomorrow Monday April 24 from his lengthy sojourn abroad that has seen him go on holiday in France  where he says he is planning his transition programme ahead of the May 29 handover date.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] On September 20, a lot has happened over the centuries. Men and women of unbelievable courage did the unthinkable on this day, changing our world forever. For the world's largest black nation to join the ranks of humanity's greats, we simply need to start thinking similarly.