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NIGERIAN Grammy Award-winning musician Burna Boy has suffered an unprecedented humiliation in the US as organisers were forced to cancel a show he had planned in Minneapolis today because fans refused to buy tickets.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] First of all, we must aim for six mega cattle ranches and when they are fully operational, we should aspire to dramatically increase the number of cows in Nigeria from the current 20m to say the 189m produced in India today. This expansion in output will automatically present a new set of challenges which will need to be addressed. Will the Fulani be the harbingers of Nigeria’s industrial revolution?

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu declared a nationwide security emergency ordering the security forces to immediately expand recruitment and deploy thousands of additional personnel in response to the incessant spate of kidnappings over the last few weeks.

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has been warned by a US Congressman investigating the ongoing allegations of persecution of Christians in northern Nigeria that he will be held responsible should anything happen radical Plateau State clergyman Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Continues to espouse the dependence on the federal allocation formula which ties Nigeria’s fortunes to crude oil exports indefinitely

[2] Advocates further prospecting for crude oil at a time when the whole world is moving towards clean energy

[3] Seeks to keep Nigerians divided along ethnic and primordial lines

[4] Seeks to fuel religious divisions or brings matters of faith into government

NIGERIA is all set to soon appoint a substantive high commissioner to the UK after President Bola Tinubu forwarded the names of three ambassadorial nominees to the senate for approval with one of them expected to be posted to London soon.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Open a 20,000 square kilometre National Game Reserve in Taraba State. Make it the world’s largest wildlife sanctuary. Designed along similar lines to South Africa’s Kruge National Park, it should employ about 5,000 park rangers to police and fight off poachers

BRITAIN has rejected a request from the Nigerian government to allow former deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu to serve the remainder of his nine year prison sentence back home pointing out that any prisoner transfer must meet strict justice and security conditions.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Do you know that on March 4 1976, the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention was formally dissolved resulting in direct rule of the province from London by the British parliament. Britain made billions from what was supposed to be a major setback

WASHINGTON has agreed provide Nigeria with assistance that will enable it to combat the growing insecurity ravaging the country following a recent meeting between both governments in response to President Donald Trump's intervention into the matter.