Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Fri, 02/28/2025 - 19:40
FIVE new airlines are due to launch in Nigeria this year after the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) approved their air operating certificates (AOC) that would authorise them to commence operations over the last week.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Fri, 02/28/2025 - 08:11
Ayo Akinfe
[1] One of Africa's biggest tragedies is that we are waiting for the government to deliver is to the Promise Land. Unfortunately, if you look across the industrialised world, in Europe and North America, development happened organically, independent of the government
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 02/27/2025 - 20:27
ENGLISH Championship side Burnley are looking to sign Nigerian striker Daniel Udoh from his current club Wycombe Wanderers during the summer as they eye a swift return to the English Premier League.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 02/27/2025 - 12:09
Ayo Akinfe
[1] Between 2025 and 2030 a nationwide railway network will be constructed linking all 774 local government areas together
[2] Between 2025 and 2030, Nigeria will move towards allowing each of its 36 federating units to control the resources within their domain. By 2030, they will only have to remit 50% of all monies received to the federal government
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 02/26/2025 - 18:55
ENGLISH footballing giant Liverpool are now poised to sign Super Eagles striker Ademola Lookman at the end of the season as a replacement for Egyptian legend Mo Salah who looks set to leave Merseyside in the summer.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 02/26/2025 - 10:50
Ayo Akinfe
[1] In 1928, the Ford Motor Company build Fordlandia, the Brazilian town in the Amazon rain forest. It was a prefabricated industrial town intended to be inhabited by 10,000 people to secure a source of cultivated rubber
[2] Henry Ford, the company's founder had negotiated a deal with the Brazilian government granting him a concession of 10,000 km2 of land on the banks of the Rio Tapajós in exchange for a 9% share in the profits generated
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 02/25/2025 - 12:52
NIGERIA has missed out on being included in the recently-published US list of eligible countries that qualify for its 2025 Visa Waiver Program (VWP) that enables citizens of those nations to travel to America without having to obtain visas.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 02/25/2025 - 10:08
Ayo Akinfe
[1] Nigeria will have an annual budget ratio of $1bn to every 1m citizens. In 2026 for instance, with a population of 200m, our national budget shall not be less than $200bn
[2] Every one of Nigeria’s 36 states shall generate at least twice the amount of its running costs. Any state that fails to do this over two successive quarters shall be dissolved and incorporated into one of its neighbours
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Mon, 02/24/2025 - 15:02
NIGERIA'S ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is seeking to woo back former senate president Senator Bukola Saraki and several other key power brokers from across the north central geo-political zone like ex-governors Gabriel Suswam and Samuel Ortom.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Mon, 02/24/2025 - 14:31
Ayo Akinfe
[1] China has now developed world's fast high-speed train, the CR450, which has a top test speed of 450 km per hour and an operational speed of 400 km per hour
[2] This new train, which obliterates the 200km per hour speed of average high speed trains, will undergo comprehensive testing, verification and trial assessments in 2025. Nigeria needs to tell China that we want to be part of that programme
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