NIGERIA'S Akinwunmi Adesina has promised to continue serving Africa with all his might despite standing down as the chairman of the African Development Bank (AfDB) after 10 at the helm and handing over to Mauritanian Sidi Ould Tah.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] If you ask me, nothing has enthroned poverty in Nigeria like the wholesale dependence on crude oil. When you are dependent on one primary commodity for your survival, you are asking for the bony hand of hunger to come and decimate you.

ENGLISH Premier League side West Ham have stepped up the pursuit of Super eagles midfielder Raphael Onyedika with a view to purchasing him from Belgian's Club Brugge during the forthcoming summer transfer window.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] No matter how you look at it, we negroid people will continue to suffer prejudice and bias until we have an African economy that sits at the high table of humanity

VETERAN Super Eagles striker Ahmed Musa has left the team's Unity Cup camp in London ahead of tomorrow's final against Jamaica and returned to Nigeria to attend to personal matters.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] By 2030, every one of our 19-member states must generate enough revenue to at least meets its running costs

[2] Every state in northern Nigeria must be twinned with a state in the south as part of our education policy. By 2030, every northern state must match its southern twin in terms of literacy, secondary school leavers, graduates and post-graduates

NIGERIA'S Super Eagles have qualified for the final of the Unity Cup where they will face the Reggae Boyz of Jamaica on Saturday after beating Ghana 2-1 in the semi final dubbed the Jollof Derby yesterday.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Are Nigerians aware of the fact that the bulk of the rice we consume in the world today is grown in delta regions. Worldwide, about 80m hectares of irrigated lowland rice is cultivated, accounting for 75% of global output

[2] Across Asia, irrigated rice is grown in bunded fields or paddies, which are surrounded by small embankments that keep the water in. Our Niger Delta is tailor-made for this kind of rice production

NIGERIA'S public debt is set to exceed N180trn ($113.4bn) following President Bola Tinubu’s recent request to the National Assembly asking it to approve a set of additional external and domestic loans totalling N34.15trn ($21.5bn).

As part of a plan to make up for Nigeria's budget deficit, President Tinubu has asked lawmakers to approve more borrowing. In addition, he is also seeking approval of a domestic bond issuance of N757.9bn to settle outstanding pension liabilities.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] For starters, they should launch a public works programme that involves getting millions of youths across the geo-political zone to participate in a tree-painting programme. They should plant rows of trees along the country’s borders with Chad, Cameroon and Niger Republic to actually tell us where Nigeria starts.

[2] In Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, the governments need to offer free uniforms and school meals to all youths to encourage education.