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NIGERIAN striker Victor Adeboyejo scored his first goal for Bolton Wanderers this weekend finding the back of the net in a 2-1 victory over Port Vale in an English Football League One match yesterday.

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[1] Unprecedented problems require unprecedented solutions. When you are faced with challenges that look insurmountable, that is when it is time to think outside the box sand do the unthinkable

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[1] We will get the federal government to buy the rights to the Volkswagen Beetle. Then enter into a pact with Innoson Motors where the government owns 25% of a joint venture that manufactures electric Beetles. Make Nigeria the world’s largest manufacturer of such vehicles

[2] We will build the world’s largest wind farm along Nigeria’s Atlantic coastline stretching for 850km from Calabar to Badagry 

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[1] We will aim for annual double-digit economic growth between 2023 and 2030. If we enjoy 10% growth every year for a decade, it will increase Nigeria's GDP to over $1trn from the current $400bn. At the moment, over 90% of government revenue comes from crude oil exports. This soft underbelly makes Nigeria highly vulnerable to the vagaries of the global oil market. By 2030, we should aim to reduce this to 50% as part of an aggressive diversification plan.

GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has accused those behind the redesign of the Nigerian currency the naira of introducing the measure to frustrate the ambitions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (Ipob) spokesman Simon Ekpa has been arrested in Finland by the local security services at the behest of the Nigerian government who have accused him of being an international terrorist.

HUDDERSFIELD Town's Nigeria-eligible defender Mustapha Olagunju returned to action during the week in a Central League game on Tuesday afternoon ending a 20-month hiatus during which he was out with injury.

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[1] Security- A commitment to reduce by at least 80% the ongoing insurgency, kidnapping and banditry within a year 

[2] A pledge to increase generated power to 40,000MW within four years. This power must also be distributed and transmitted 

[3] A commitment to empower Nigeria’s 36 states economically. As things stand, they have very little autonomy

[4] An undertaking to grant local governments full autonomy 

GOVERNOR Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has denied rumours that several All Progressives Congress (APC) governors are against the naira redesign because it would prevent them from inducing voters during the forthcoming elections.

BRITAIN'S high commission in Nigeria has announced that its visa application centres in Abuja and Lagos will be closed on Friday and Monday next week due to the impending general elections scheduled to take place on February 25.