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If you ask me, there is something fundamentally missing that fails to explain our intellectual laziness. Faced with the constant threat of terrorist attacks, Nigerian munitions manufacturing should be thriving in an unprecedented manner at the moment.

It is a given that during conflicts, countries exceed themselves with engineering and productive ingenuity. During World War Two for instance, all these leading edge technology aircraft were mass produced:

NIGERIA'S foreign exchange crisis has got more severe over recent weeks as the gap between the official and parallel market exchange rates of the naira widened significantly as the demand for foreign currency continued to outstrip supply.

NIGERIA'S National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (Nafdac) has warned that excessive fasting can create serious health problems as it has the potential to lead to severe kidney damage.

INTERNATIONAL flights in and out of Lagos have been severely disrupted today after workers of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (Nahco) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport commenced industrial action.

OHANAEZE Ndigbo has placed a bounty of $50,000 on Simon Ekpa the self-acclaimed acting leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) who has taken over the running of the organisation following the incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu.

ITALIAN Serie A side Salernitana is set to unveil Super Eagles centreback William Troost-Ekong as their latest signing after he reached a deal to join them on loan from English Premier League side Watford until the end of the season.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] In total, the UK provided £2.3bn of military aid to Ukraine in 2022 and the government has committed to sustain the same level of funding in 2023

[2] The UK has supplied Ukraine with 14 top-of-the range Challenger tanks. They cost about $2m each

RIGHT Reverend Nkechi Nwosu has been ordained as the first ever female bishop of the Methodist Church Nigeria after being coronated at a special service today conducted by the Archbishop of Kaduna Reverend Joseph Nnonah.

SUPER Eagles midfielder Wilfred Ndidi is poised to spend several weeks out injured again after picking up a knock in training during the week that kept him out of yesterday's league game against Brighton.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Doubling the number of security operatives 

[2] Scrapping the current revenue allocation formula 

[3] Reducing the amount crude contributes to government revenue to about 40% from the current 90%

[4] Building a national railway network with at least one station in every local government area 

[5] Increasing generated power to 50,000MW from the current 7,000MW

[6] Building at least one general hospital in every local government area