Ayo Akinfe

[1] Within 30 days, he should host a meeting of the South East Governors Forum in Akwa. At this summit, I want to see him sell the other governors the idea of floating a finance house called Ogbunigwe Bank. It will hand out loans to small businesses across the southeast geo-political zone with a maximum interest rate of 5%

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has sent a high-level delegation to London to request that former deputy senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu be allowed to serve the remainder of his prison sentence for organ trafficking in Nigeria.

ENGLISH Premier League champions Chelsea look set to put in another bid for Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen during the forthcoming January transfer window as the star forward hits Nigeria's training camp in Rabat ahead of Thursday's World cup play-off.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] If we do not accept our shortcomings, we are never going to overcome them. Our problems in Nigeria are multi-faceted but they can be narrowed down to three things - we produce too little, we are intellectually lazi and ostentation/greed reign supreme. In 1922, Frederick Lugard spotted all this and summed us up perfectly in his book Dual Mandate

ENGLISH Premier League giants Liverpool have offered Italian side Napoli two strikers in both Federico Chiesa and Darwin Nunez in exchange for Super Eagles front man Victor Osimhen in an audacious deal they hope to pull off.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Freight containers are a reusable transport and storage unit for moving products and raw materials between locations or countries. There are about 17 million intermodal containers in the world at the moment

[2] About 85% of the world’s containers are manufactured in China

[3] Do you know that 90% of African imports and exports are expedited by cargo ships. Egypt’s Port Said alone handles about 3m containers a year

ENGLISH Premier League giants Tottenham Hotspurs have emerged as a firm favourite to sign-up Super Eagles winger Ademola Lookman during the forthcoming January transfer window.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] No nation can industrialise without steel and by my calculations, Nigeria needs an annual production target of about 35m tonnes of steel. This will match Brazilian output and put us on the same trajectory as sister developing nations like Mexico, Iran, Taiwan, South Korea and Vietnam

SUPER Eagles head coach Eric Chelle has named a 24-am squad for the forthcoming World Cup play-offs taking place later this month recalling returnee goalkeeper Maduka Okoye and also bringing back creative playmaker Chidera Ejuke.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Six regional powers grids will be established across the country, with each responsible for providing electricity to the states within its domain

[2] A national grid will operate on top of this serving as a supplement whenever there are shortages in any geo-political zone

[3] Zonal grids will be free to sell excess power generated to other zones or export it as a commercial product