Ayo Akinfe

[1] No matter how you cut it, the main responsibility for getting northern Nigeria out of her current economic morass lies with the Northern State Governors Forum (NSGF). It is not the federal government that is going to create local jobs, it is the state governments but Abuja needs to keep up the pressure on the NSGF to eradicate poverty in their states

ALHAJI Aliko Dangote has commenced the building of what will become Africa's largest and deepest seaport in the coastal town of Olokola in Ogun State as part of a grand plan to venture into maritime logistics.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigerians like to hide behind the excuse of bad leaders but they are just being dishonest. They know deep down that even if our leaders want to be honest men, we will not let them be honest men. Nigeria’s leaders are a mirror image of the rest of society

NIGERIAN exports to the US fell by 20% or $527m during the first five months of 2025 as a result of President Donald Trump's clampdown on imports according to figures just released by the US Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria will establish at least one new technical vocational training college in each local government area of the 19 states of the country that have indigenous Fulani populations

[2] Every Fulani herdsman who hands in his weapons and arms will be granted automatic admission into one of these technical colleges where the state government will feed, board and train them up to City & Guild level in one vocational skill

FORMER Nigerian leader President Muhammadu Buhari has passed away at a London clinic today at the age of 82 after a brief illness that kept him hospitalised in the UK for the last few weeks.

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%

NIGERIA'S newest airline Enugu Air is planning to become a global player with ambitions to fly to international destinations like London in the not-too-distant future according to Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Now that we have all got over the Botswana embarrassment, it is time to look ahead

[2] Botswana are the lowest ranked team at the Women’s African Cup of Nations and Nigeria are the highest ranked team at the tournament, so we should be beating them with ease. Unfortunately, head coach Justin Madugu had no answer to their tactics of parking the bus against

[3] I suspect Algeria will do the same tomorrow. Does Mr Madugu have a Plan B?

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria's economic and human development indicators will be compared annually with those of other Mint nations like Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey and Brics nations like Brazil, India, Russia, China and South Africa, to ensure we never fall behind