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Ajayi picks up man of the match award promising that the team will learn to finish off opponents

SUPER Eagles centreback semi Ajayi has promised that the team will learn from its mistakes in yesterday's opening game against Tanzania and try to finish off opponents when it is in the ascendancy during the rest of the ongoing African Cup of Nations.

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I would like to see President Tinubu establish a Nigerian Directorate of Futurustic Thinking on 2026, with a mandate to think the unthinkable

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Those of you who did chemistry will be familiar with this gentleman Robert Boyle, popularly referred to as the father of modern chemistry. He died in 1641 and when his study was visited after his death, they found a wish-list of 24 things he hoped man would achieve in the future

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US surveillance planes carry out intelligence gathering flights over Nigerian airspace

AMERICAN planes have been carrying out intelligence-gathering surveillance flights over large areas of Nigeria since late November according to a recently-published document by former US officials.

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Getting the National Orientation Agency to change the way we think as a people has got to be the Tinubu administration’s top priority in 2026

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As people, 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 - intellectual laziness, ostentation and short term greed. In 1922, Frederick Lugard spotted all this and summed us up perfectly in his book Dual Mandate

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Nigerian exports to the US drop sharply in response to Trump's punitive tariff regime

NIGERIAN exports to the US fell by almost N1trn during the first none months of 2025 leading to a chronic balance of trade deficit as a result of President Donald Trump placing punitive tariffs on goods from overseas.

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It would be great if President Tinubu and his cabinet turned up at Eagles Square on Jan 1 2026 and signed this industrial development document called Contract With Nigeria

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Every one of Nigeria’s 774 local government areas must have at least one industrial estate. Failure to establish one within one year of assuming office will make a local government chairman liable to face criminal, treason and economic sabotage charges

[2] No licences will be issued to any faith house to open a church or mosque unless such premises also involves the construction of an industrial complex which shall employ at least 50 people

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Spurs look to bring Italian-born Nigerian defender Ahanor into the English Premier League

ENGLISH Premier League giants Tottenham Hotspurs are looking to bring Nigerian teenage defender Honest Ahanor to White Hart Lane during the forthcoming January transfer window as part of a plan to revive their flagging season.

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As the world’s largest black nation, Nigeria has got to start thinking of how to leapfrog industrialised countries. Let us start off with plans to manufacture a replacement artificial sun

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Every second, the sun’s core fuses about 600m tonnes of hydrogen into helium and in the process converts 4m tonnes of matter into energy. This energy, which can take between 10,000 and 170,000 years to escape the core, is the source of the sun’s light and heat

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Plans remain afoot for Joshua to lock horns with Tyson Fury after last night's victory

FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua is being prepared for a major showdown with long term rival Tyson Fury later this year following his successful bout against former YouTuber Jake Paul last night.

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Tinubu to proceed with the creation of well-armed state police forces and forest rangers

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has promised to arm several new security outfits over the coming years including members of state police forces and forest rangers as part of a renewed drive to combat the growing insecurity across Nigeria.

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