NIGERIAN-born media mogul Pearlena Igbokwe has been names as the chairman of US entertainment and information giants the Universal Studio Group making her the first African woman to head a major American television studio.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Cotton production will be expanded to match Pakistan’s 2.3m tonnes through the provision of single digit loans and hybrid seedlings to farmers. Nigeria currently produces only 105,000 tonnes which is not enough to sustain a local manufacturing industry

(2) A Nigerian Tailors Guild will be formed as part of a regulatory regime. Only registered members will be authorised to sew clothes for members of the public

LIVERPOOL manager Jurgen Klopp has opted against sending Nigerian striker Taiwo Awoniyi out on loan over the forthcoming season retaining him as a member of his squad for the current campaign for now.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) One thing that makes my heart bleed is the fact that as a continent, Africa has very little man-made infrastructure to show the rest of the world. All we really have are the pyramids of Egypt

(2) At a time when the rest of the world is building the fastest, tallest and biggest of everything, we are fast asleep. In the case of Nigeria, one of the main reasons for this is because we are too dependent on the federal government for everything

PROFESOR Florence Obi of the Faculty of Education has become the first ever female vice chancellor of the University of Calabar after she was appointed to the position following the end of the screening of 12 candidates for the job.

FORMER Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) deputy governor Dr Obadiah Mailafia has warned that his life is in danger after he was invited for the third time to visit the offices of the Department of State Services (DSS) over his allegations about terrorism in the country.

HUNDREDS of Nigerian students studying abroad are now facing the prospect of having to terminate their studies after the interim management committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has refused to pay out an additional sum of $3m.

SEVERAL prominent Middle Belt leaders have withdrawn from Nigeria's pan-northern socio-cultural group the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and created the breakaway North Central Peoples Forum (NCPF) to protest the ongoing killings in their region.

JOE Aribo looks set to miss Nigeria's friendlies against Ivory Coast and Tunisia next month after Glasgow Rangers declared that he will be missing in action for between four and six weeks as a result of a nagging ankle injury.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) With oil prices in the doldrums and the Dangote refinery poised to take over as Nigeria’s main source of petrol products, this is the time to cannibalise the NNPC and convert it into an industrial concern

(2) Dangote’s Lekki refinery has effectively made the three dormant NNPC refineries needless. We have to now convert the Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries into manufacturing plants churning out finished goods