Ayo Akinfe

[1] Okada riders
[2] Fabric retailers
[3] Cocoa farmers
[4] Automobile spare parts traders
[5] Luxurious bus companies
[6] Fishermen who use trawlers
[7] Generator distributors
[8] Livestock herdsmen who use animal feed
[9] Major microphone users like churches and mosques
[10] Food crop farmers who use fertilisers

Why is this compulsory?

NIGERIA intends to host the World Summit for a Single Market in Africa in March next year as part of a renewed drive towards consolidating the continent's disparate economies and forging a stronger entity that can compete on the global market.

NIGERIA'S federal government will not introduce a fresh coronavirus lockdown despite the outbreak of a second wave of the virus unless it is totally necessary and unavoidable with no other option available.

NIGERIAN domestic airline Air Peace has commenced international operations to South Africa with the company's inaugural flight between Lagos and Johannesburg taking place yesterday morning.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is to meet with the just-released Government Science Secondary School Kankara schoolboys at the presidential villa in Kastina today to show his solidarity with them.

ARMED gunmen have kidnapped a first class traditional ruler in Kogi State whisking away Alhaji Shaibu Usman the acting Ejeh Of Ankpa while he was about to enter a mosque for his Friday Jumat prayers.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) It is Xmas again and as from this weekend, our Igbo brethren will be converging on the southeast, coming from all over Nigeria

(2) Transport fares to cities like Enugu, Umuahia, Aba, Awka, Owerri, Onitsha, etc will double. Owning a national bus company that plies southeast Nigeria is a licence to print money at Xmas

FULANI herdsmen's association the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) has commenced negotiations with the kidnappers who recently abducted about 300 schoolboys from their secondary school in Katsina State.

NIGERIA is facing a fresh additional revenue crisis after the petroleum ministry was forced reduce crude oil output to 1.32m barrels a day as part of its obligations to the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec).

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele is facing the prospect of a two year jail term for contempt of court after he failed to honour a judgement mandating the federal government to pay a N182bn ($475.66m) fine to the Ogoni people of Rivers State.