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With Nigeria needing to attract foreign direct investment from whatever quarter we can, our 2027 presidential candidates are going to have to repeal the country's Draconian homophobic laws

Ayo Akinfe

[1] If you ask me, having Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) makes it imperative that Nigeria becomes a mainstream player in the global economy. It is highly embarrassing that Africa accounts for 18% of the world’s population but only 3% of its trade and 1% of global manufacturing. It falls to Nigeria to correct this imbalance

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Bolton and Charlton monitor Okonkwo after indications that he wants to leave Wrexham

SUPER Eagles goalkeeper Arthur Okonkwo is being monitored by English Championship sides Charlton Athletic and Bolton Wanderers after he indicated that he may be leaving Wrexham after the club signed Anthony Patterson from Sunderland for £8m.

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Are any of Nigeria’s presidential candidates aware of the fact that with the growing demand for solar panels, the global glass industry is worth over $105bn a year

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Were our politics mature, the economic teams of all our parties would know that the global glass manufacturing market size was valued at $106.44bn in 2021 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 5.2% between 2022 and 2030

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Arsenal step up quest for Osimhen demanding him in exchange for Martinelli and Nwaneri

ENGLISH Premier League champions Arsenal have launched an audacious bid to sign Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen before the close of the current summer transfer window by offering his club Galatasaray Gabriel Martinelli and Ethan Nwaneri in exchange.

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As the world’s largest black nation, Nigeria has to found a Global Anthropological Centre that will ascertain if negroid people are wholly homo sapien

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Homo Sapien man has long be regarded as the ape that got lucky. Unlike our cousins Homo Neanderthalis, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Naledi and Homo Neanderthalis, we survived the Ice Age, partly thanks to the fact that we bred in sufficient numbers

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Rangers consider signing Nigeria-eligible leftback Jayden Meghoma from Brentford

SCOTTISH giants Glasgow Rangers are looking to sign Nigeria-eligible leftback Jayden Meghoma from English Premier League side Brentford before the closure of the summer transfer window.

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With general elections looming, Nigerian voters should only vote for candidates and parties that have coherent policies that look like this railway plan

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As part of our clean energy strategy we need to move millions of people from road to rail, so to achieve this a railway network needs to be constructed across the country over the next 20 years linking all 36 states, employing no less than 10m people

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Spurs drop their interest in Osimhen and now turn their attention to Folarin Balogun

ENGLISH Premier League giants Tottenham Hotspurs have rescinded their interest in signing Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen following his recent altercation with an opponent in a pre-season game and have switched their attention to Folarin Balogun.

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I hope whoever becomes Nigeria's next president has the most ambitious women's programme ever seen as without one we will never break the poverty cycle

Ayo Akinfe

[1] First of all he or she must scrap all laws which limit a woman's right to inherit family property

[2] Child marriages should become criminalised immediately with a minimum 10 year prison sentence for convicted criminals

[3] Then a 50% women's representation bill must be passed by the National Assembly. It will guarantee that half of all elected and appointed positions go to females

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All Air Peace flights are grounded as a result of industrial action over pay and conditions

NIGERIA'S largest airline Air Peace has had all of its flights disrupted as a result of industrial action carried out by its members of staff following an ongoing disagreement over remuneration terms and conditions.

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