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Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria currently has about 21.7m unemployed people, 10.5m out-of-school children, about 3m internal refugees and 90m people living below the UN acknowledged poverty of surviving on less than $2 a day. A public works programme will be introduced to address all these maladies 

NIGERIA has been officially declared as the biggest debtor in the foreign airlines by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) after it emerged that the country owes carriers about $551m in blocked funds.

ANGRY youths in the Delta North Senatorial District have chased away their local lawmaker and the minority leader of the House of Representatives Hon Ndudi Elumelu saying he has failed to address their challenges over the years.

AFROBEAT musician Oladapo Oyebanji popularly known as D’banj has been arrested and detained by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over corruption allegations related to the government's N-Power scheme.

OHANAEZE Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide (ONYCW) has lashed out at the self-declared interim leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) Simon Ekpa for ordering a five day sit-at-home protest across the southeast geo-political zone.

NIGERIA-eligible midfielder Carney Chukwuemeka has recovered from a debilitating hamstring injury and has returned to training with Chelsea at the club's ongoing warm weather training camp in Abu Dhabi.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Insecurity is by far our biggest problem in Nigeria today. I would appoint a coordinating minister for security who will coordinate the affairs of the defence, police and internal affairs ministries 

[2] I will also appoint a coordinating minister of the economy who will oversee the finance, agriculture, labour & employment, trade & industry and petroleum ministries 

RESTRICTIONS have been placed on the amounts of cash Nigerians can withdraw from banks by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in response to the scarcity brought about by the redesigning of the naira.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari and the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) have been dragged before an Abuja high court by two Nigerians resident in the UK who are seeking to get voting rights extended to diasporans.

ARSENAL's Nigeria-eligible goalkeeper Arthur Okonkwo has been shortlisted for the English Football League's League Two Player of the Month for November after a brilliant month that saw him keep two cleans sheets in his last couple of matches.