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NINETEEN youths have been arrested by the Kano State Hisbah Board for attending a same-sex marriage ceremony and face being charged to court under the country's Same Sex Marriage Act of 2014.

ENGLISH Premier league giants Chelsea have signified an interest in signing talented Arsenal midfielder  of Nigerian descent Ethan Nwaneri as part of an ambitious programme known as Vision 2030.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Set an income tax revenue target of $50bn by 2030

[2] Forward proposals to the National Assembly introducing a regime whereby no public official will receive more than four times the national minimum wage

[3] Peg the salaries of the president, governors, senators, ministers, commissioners, members of the House of Representatives, state assembly members, etc to grades in the Nigerian civil service

[4] Impose a 60% faith tax on all religious houses

FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar gas replaced Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on his presidential campaign council with Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State as attempts to reach a deal with the G5 governors appeared to have collapsed irretrievably.

FORMER presidential adviser and the current director-general of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council Dr Doyin Okupe, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by an Abuja high court for breaching the Money Laundering Act.

NIGERIA  Football Federation (NFF) officials are considering inviting Cardiff City striker Kion Etete to the Olympic Eagles squad as part of  plan to tie him down given his eligibility to play for England too.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Increasing generated power from the current 7,000MW to about 50,000MW through a variety of sources like wind, solar, thermal, gas, hydro and waste recycling

[2] Initiating a Lagos Underground tube network. Lagos is the largest city in the world without an underground network. With 12m people and no metro, you will always take five hours to drive from one end of the city to the other

CHELSEA are to hold talks with English Championship side Huddersfield Town over the fate on of-loan Nigeria-eligible midfielder Faustino Anjorin after he sustained another injury that will keep him out of action for the time being.

Ayo Akinfe

Simply put, Nigeria needs to attract at least $50bn in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2023 to avoid total economic collapse. Where on earth we are going to get it from I do not know and I am surprised that nobody is even talking about it at the moment.

AS many as 360 Nigerian rural communities are expected to benefit from the construction of 5,000MW of solar power generation and 2,500MWh of battery energy storage power plants under the terms of a new clean energy package.