NIGERIANS in the UK were treated to an unprecedented mixture of entertainment and culture on Saturday December 14 when the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk) held its annual gala dinner.

Ayo Akinfe

Fellow Nigerians,

[1] We shall be opening one mechanised division of the Nigerian Army in each of the 19 states of northern Nigeria to combat insecurity, terrorism, kidnapping, banditry and the murderous Fulani herdsmen

NIGERIA has called US president-elect Donald Trump's bluff by ignoring his threat to sanction countries that embraced Brics with the federal government applying for full membership of the group.

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[1] At the moment, Nigeria is the UK’s fastest growing export market. She should draw up plans that stipulate that she wants to see this grow dramatically with an annual foreign direct investment (FDI) target of $1bn for British investors in Nigeria

CYBER criminal Abiola Kayode has been successfully extradited from Ghana to the US state of Nebraska where he has been charged with offences relating to an alleged $6m cyber fraud scheme.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] 50,000MW of electricity

[2] Total elimination of Boko Haram, Iswap and all other terrorist organisations

[3] All Fulani herdsmen and kidnappers being disarmed

[4] Charges against all present and past political prisoners like Nnamdi Kanu, Omoyele Sowore, Sunday Ighoho and Ibrahim Zakzaky have been dropped

[5] All public officials have committed to eschewing corruption

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu's wife Senator Oluremi Tinubu has committed Nigeria to meeting the global tuberculosis target of eradicating the disease by 2035 as part of the federal government's Renewed Hope Agenda.

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[1] With hyper-inflation pushing the price of basic foodstuffs beyond the reach of most Nigerians, the Tinubu administration needs to come up with a new National Food Security Plan. I take the view that fruit cultivation should be a central part of such a programme

[2] Fruit is one area where we are sitting on a potential gold mine as nothing stops the sector from matching the $30bn or so Nigeria realises from the sale of crude oil pre-coronavirus

LAGOS State Union UK has named prominent Lagosian socialite and former broadcaster Moji Bishi as the Iya Eyo for the forthcoming masquerade performance taking place at the Central association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk) gala dinner coming up on December 14.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Procrastination is the thief of time - Charles Dickens

[2] We cannot afford the tranquillising drug of gradualism - Martin Luther King

[3] I believe in the fierce urgency of now - Dr Martin Luther King

[4] Justice delayed is justice denied - William Ewart Gladstone