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Ayo Akinfe

[1] Plant trees along Nigeria’s borders with her neighbours and paint them green and white so we at least know where Nigeria begins and ends

[2] Form a Border Guard and equip them with jeeps so they can conduct 24 hour patrols along the frontier. Too many arms are coming into Nigeria through her porous borders

DEEPER Christian Life Ministry clergyman Pastor John Elaigwu Odogbo has emerged as the new Och’Idoma and paramount ruler of the Idoma nation in Benue State after a rigorous selection process.

OLORI Naomi Silekunola has returned to Ile-Ife as the wife of the Ooni following the intervention of numerous Yoruba elders including her own local traditional ruler the Deji of Akure with her mother apologising for the recent outburst.

UNIVERSITY of Ilorin academics Professors Kayode Oyewumi and Musa Yakubu have been listed among Elsevier BV’s most productive scientists in the world in recognition of their work in global research.

PAN-Igbo political pressure group the South East Democratic Civil Society Coalition (Sedsoc) has called for an end to the endorsement of the presidential ambitions of former senate president Senator Pius Anyim as Ndigbo need to consult on the matter first.

PORTUGUESE manager Jose Peseiro has been appointed as the new Super Eagles head coach by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) with  mandate to take charge of the team at the end of the African Cup of Nations in February.

GOVERNOR Aminu Masari has called on local residents in Katsina State to arm themselves and confront the bandits operating within their communities because security officials cannot tackle the growing  insecurity alone.

OVER 15,000 Nigerian nurses have obtained licences to practise in the UK within the five year period spanning from March 2017 to March 2021 making Nigeria the largest source of foreign nurses in the country after the Philippines and India.

Ayo Akinfe

Nigeria is estimated (we do not even have exact figures) to earn about $37bn a year from the sale of petroleum products. I for one have no doubt in my mind whatsoever that if we turned off the oil taps today, agriculture alone could generate that figure.