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MALAYSIA'S government is preparing to roll out a new digital platform that will enable employers to recruit foreign workers including Nigerians directly cutting out the need agencies that have traditionally dominated the process.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] This here is a picture of Roman Empire at its zenith in 117AD. As you can see, it covered virtually all of Europe apart from Scotland, Scandinavia and Tsarist Russia

NIGERIA-eligible central midfielder Tochi Chukwuani scored on his debut for Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers following his recent transfer from Austrian side Sturm Graz during the just-closed January window.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Pharmaceutical companies from both China and India are committed to opening mega drug manufacturing factories in Nigeria. In addition, their Nigerian subsidiaries will be given sole distribution rights across Africa

SEVERAL of President Bola Tinubu's recent nominees for ambassadorial positions face the risk of being rejected by their host countries due to time constraints on their tenures created by the fact that the current government's life is due to end next May.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Lagos State: Our commercial capital currently accounts for about one quarter of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP) and one third of non-oil GDP. However, we need to built on it and turn it into an international financial centre that matches London which generates $650bn a year or New York which generates $1.4trn a year.

ENGLAND U15 coach Matt Thorpe has invited Nigeria-eligible teenage centreback Isaac Ogunrinde to the Young Lions training camp in Cyprus in a development that could lead to him ending up playing for England ahead of the Super Eagles.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria’s federal government will buy the rights to the world’s most successful car the Volkswagen Beetle. We will then enter into a pact with Innoson Motors under which the government owns 25% of a joint venture that manufactures electric Beetles, making Nigeria the world’s largest manufacturer of such vehicles

NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suffered another major setback as the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) has recognised a factional caretaker committee backed by Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister Nyesom Wike.

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, intellectual laziness and ostentation/greed. In 1922, Frederick Lugard spotted all this and summed us up perfectly in his book Dual Mandate