Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigerians are fond of blaming all their problems on poor leadership but for me, that is just a kop out. It is an intellectually lazy way of trying to explain a wider malaise that afflicts the world’s largest and most prosperous black nation. A handful of bad leaders cannot misrule 200m people for 62 years without their consent and full acquiescence

GOVERNOR Mohammed Badaru of Jigawa State has revealed that the federal government is working closely with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (Asuu) to clear the salary arrears of lecturers to enable them return to work as agreed when they ended their strike.

SWITZERLAND has picked two players of Nigerian descent for its 2022 World Cup squad in Manchester City defender Manuel Akanji and Red Bull Salzburg striker Noah Okafor naming both of them in its 26-man team.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] The five states of the southeast geo-political zone will float a finance house called Ogbunigwe Bank. It will hand out loans to small businesses with a maximum interest rate of 5%

GOVERNOR Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has announced ambitious plans to attract energy giant Gasoline Integrated International (GII) to invest in the state and build a N3bn ($6.8m) refinery on Tongeji Island in Ipokia Local Government Area.

EBUBEAGU Security Outfit operatives working in Ebonyi State have been accused of abducting and kidnapping local Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and former information commissioner Chief Abia Onyike.

DONALD Trump's daughter Tiffany is set to get married to Nigeria-raised fiancé Michael Boulos this weekend at her father's palm beach resort in Florida at a ceremony expected to be attended by about 500 guests.

BRITAIN'S government has offered £200m to the African Development Bank (AfDB) as its contribution towards climate finance for African countries in response to the recent spate of droughts and floods afflicting the continent.

NIGERIA'S home-based Eagles succumbed to a 0-2 loss to Costa Rica last night in a friendly match played at the National Stadium in the Central American nation's capital San Jose in what was one of their last warm-up matches before the World Cup.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I am a big fan of the Knights Templar, that Catholic military order founded in 1119. The world owes them a debt of gratitude as they spearheaded the new age of enlightenment that spread across Europe at the time, opening up new frontiers in an unprecedented manner. I first fell in love with them when I read Da Vinci Code. They have fascinated me ever since