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INSPECTOR-general of police Usman Baba has appointed Abutu Yaro as the new Imo State police commissioner with a strict mandate to combat the growing menace of insecurity there that has resulted in the recent attacks on public facilities.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Presidents only allowed to serve a single five year tenure 

[2] The presidency rotated among the six geo-political zones alternating between the north and the south on an alphabetical basis - North Central, South East, North East, South South, North West and South West

[3] Nigeria will have six vice presidents, with one from each geo-political zone 

NIGERIAN Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) officials are optimistic that a total of $8.41bn was invested into the economy during the first quarter of the year in a move that will eventually create jobs and reduce unemployment.

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (Ipob) has announced that May 31 will be recognised as Biafra Day during which there will be a sit-at-home protest across the southeast and south-south geo-political zones.

WORK being carried out by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Nigeria to eradicate diseases like polio will continue unabated despite the recent announcement by the couple that they are to divorce after 27 years of marriage.

NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials have written to global football body Fifa protesting over the lengthy delay in approving the switch of Fulham star Ademola Lookman that will enable him to play for the Super Eagles.

CONTROVERSIAL clergyman Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka has hit back at critics lambasting him for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari over Nigeria's growing insecurity warning that the anger of heaven will descend on those attacking him.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] President Joe Biden is about to embark on a $2.3trn spending spree in what is being dubbed as the modern equivalent of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. It is designed to create millions of jobs, rebuild national infrastructure and position the US to out-compete China

FORMER president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has mooted fielding the current head of the African Development bank (AfDB) Dr Akinwumi Adesina as presidential candidate in the 2023 Nigerian elections.

Ayo Akinfe

I will say thank you to all of you wonderful people for all the unbelievable birthday messages I received yesterday by launching a 2023 election manifesto. You guys all want Nigeria to be a better place, so here is a programme to lift our dear nation out of poverty

Let us all hope one of the candidates can pick this up and run with it. If someone does, between 2023 and 2030, we should enjoy significant economic growth: