WORLD heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has made a substantial donation to boxing gyms in the UK in the wake of his recent defence of his four belts as his contribution to prevent them going out of business as a result of the coronavirus lockdown.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's administration appears to be finally coming round to the realisation that it needs to do something to curtail the activities of murderous Fulani herdsmen after presidential spokesman Mallam Garba Shehu admitted conceded that their movement needs to be checked.

NIGERIAN leading airline Air Peace has stepped up its expansion into the international market with the launch of an 11-hour non-stop flight between Lagos and the Jamaican city of Montego Bay this week.

Ayo Akinfe

Nigeria needs to attract at least $50bn in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2021 to avoid total economic collapse. Where on earth we are going to get it from I do not know and I am surprised that nobody is even talking about it at the moment.

Waiting for investors to just come to Nigeria is utopian thinking. We should be the ones aggressively pursuing them, using our control of the Ecowas market as a unique selling point.

FORMER Super Eagles skipper Mikel Obi has lost his battle to regain fitness ahead of tomorrow's Carabao Cup match against English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur and as a result will miss the game.

NIGERIA'S federal government has announced that any ban imposed on flights to and from the UK in response to the emergence of a new strain of the Covid-19 virus will be done in conjunction with neighbouring West African countries.

RESIDENTS of Lagos State who contravene the coronavirus restrictions introduced by the state government face the risk of being sent to jail for a one year period as the authorities clamp down on protocol abuses as a second wave of the pandemic looms.

NIGERIA'S Department of State Services (DSS) has warned of a plan by Islamic terrorists to launch a bombing campaign over the Christmas period that will involve the targeting of religious places of worship and recreational centres.

NIGERIA'S National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (Nafdac) has announced that it leveraging technology to trace vaccines in the hope that it will be able to assist local companies to start manufacturing when the Covid-19 vaccine arrives.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Regional security operations like Amotekun and the Eastern Security Network

(2) Mini power distribution plants in each local government area

(3) Local health centres to offer basic primary care

(4) Funding of local producer cooperatives to enable them process farm goods into semi finished products

(5) Urban tram networks in our state capitals and large metropolitan cities

(6) Adult literacy classes to elevate the non-literate in our midst