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NIGERIA'S federal government has launched an ambitious search for foreign investors willing to pump money into the country's burgeoning lithium industry which has been described by market watchers as the new oil sector.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I do not need to tell anyone that the African continent remains a dependent and parasitic backwater, that supplies the rest of the world with the world with nothing by raw materials. You can never build any form of prosperity with that kind of rigged arrangement that keeps you a dependent consumer

ENGLISH Premier League club Southampton  signed two Nigerians before the close of the January transfer window yesterday signing a three-and-a-half-year contract with striker Victor Udoh and recalling Zach Awe from his loan spell at Accrington Stanley.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I dream of a Nigeria in which all our 36 state capitals have central business districts made up of towering office blocks built from glass. In a federation, each state capital should be an economic engine which generates enough wealth on its own to govern the state. Their city centres should be commercial hubs

SUPER Eagles striker Kelechi Iheanacho has joined English Championship side Middlesbrough on loan until the end of the season as the club mounts a last minute desperate bid to return to the Premier League.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] An unprecedented Blitzkreig operation should be unleashed to recapture those parts of Borno State still not under government control . A pincer movement should be launched in conjunction with the Chadian army to recover the entire area

[2] Nigeria should then expand the Lake Chad Basin Force into a fully fledged Ecomog Army of about 20,000 men

[3] Borno and Yobe states should each get a mechanised division of the Nigerian Army of 10,000 troops

AFROBEATs star Tems has won her second Grammy Award with her smash hit Love Me JeJe seeing off a line-up heavily dominated by Nigerian artists in the Best African Musical Performance category at the start-studded ceremony yesterday.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria owes her independence in 1960 to India and Pakistan. After World War Two the Indian people made it clear they were throwing off the yoke of British rule and immediately they did that, Britain lost interest in the rest of her empire

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria is actually a very rocky country. In the northeast and north central geo-political zones in particular, we have large swathes of rocky plateaus. Have we ever thought about how to cash in on this?

NIGERIA'S federal government has announced the delivery and deployment of 23 new mini-grids across the country's six geo-political zones as part of an ambitious rural electrification programme.