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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

NIGERIA'S former petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke spent about £140,000 on luxury furniture and decorative art in a single day according to prosecutors who testified against her at the ongoing bribery case at London's Southwark Crown Court.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] On August 3 1900, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company was founded by a gentleman named Harvey Firestone. Cashing in on the booming automobile market, Mr Firestone realised the huge potential for tyres

[2] Come 1926, the company opened one of the world's biggest rubber plantations in Liberia, West Africa, spanning over 1m acres. Why Nigeria did not seek a similar facility at independence is totally beyond me

PRESIDENT Donald Trump has set an unprecedented military tradition by sending a small detachment of American troops to Nigeria as part of his ambitious plans to confront Islamist militants operating in the country.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria will build 10 ports along our Atlantic coastline at Badagry, Lekki and Apapa in Lagos State, Ayetoro in Ondo State, Warri in Delta State, Brass in Bayelsa State, Port Harcourt and Onne in Rivers State, Calabar in Cross River State and Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom State