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Our transport minister Saidu Alkali has surely got to use the current scarcity of petrol as an opportunity to push for an unprecedented railway expansion programme that will change Nigerian transportation irreversibly

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria currently has a paltry 4,000km of railway track. For a nation with a total land area of 923,768 km2, this is abominable and disgraceful. It shows we do not understand the dynamics of modern day travel

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Kemi Badenoch promises to win back voters who deserted the Conservative Party in droves

NIGERIAN-born Kemi Badenoch has promised to win back voters who have deserted Britain's Conservative Party after winning the party's leadership contest making her the first black female leader of a major European political party.

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We would not be having the VAT debate if our 36 state governors were generating wealth internally and not parasitically dependent on federal allocation for their survival

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

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Several English Premier League clubs consider January move for Nigerian striker Christantus

SEVERAL English Premier League clubs including Aston Villa and Chelsea have stepped up plans to sign Nigerian striker Uche Christantus who has caught the eye of late following his goalscoring exploits in the Portuguese league.

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How do we get the current crop of Nigerian leaders to key into this futuristic manner of thinking and come up with something visionary like this Vision 2060 programme?

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria will own agricultural plantations on Mars that grow crops that cannot be cultivated in our tropical climate

[2] We will have an underground high speed inter-continental railway link connecting Lagos with Europe, Asia and the Americas

[3] Nigeria will manufacture 90% of the world’s drugs for tropical diseases like malaria and yellow fever

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Semi Ajayi out for four months after picking up hamstring injury which will require surgery

SUPER Eagles centreback Semi Ajayi will be out of action for four months after picking up a hamstring injury that will require surgery last weekend during an English Championship league match against Cardiff City.

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All this brouhaha about value added tax can be resolved tomorrow if the National Assembly passes a bill making it a local state-based tax collected by finance commissioners

Ayo Akinfe

[1] All this VAT noise is totally pointless. What we need is a Nigerian Finance Bill 2024 that will transfer responsibility for collecting VAT from the federal finance minister to the 36 state commissioners of finance

[2] That way, VAT will become a local tax with every state free to spend whatever it collects as it deems fit

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I hope Idi Mukhtar Maiha, the newly appointed minister for livestock affairs soon sends this Nigerian Husbandry Bill to the National Assembly

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria currently has about 20m head of cattle. We should aim to double this to at least 40m by 2026 through an ambitious programme of industrial production, aggressive ranching, the provision of veterinary services and the provision of security for livestock

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Super Eagles rise three places in latest Fifa rankings due to good Nations Cup qualifier results

NIGERIA'S Super Eagles have risen up three places in the latest Fifa rankings to 36th in the world and fourth on Africa thanks to the team's recent victories over the Republic of Benin and Libya in Nations Cup qualifiers.

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I hope Bianca Ojukwu joining the government will lead to the introduction of an ambitious Igbocentric trade conversation programme that will convert our retail traders into product manufacturers

Ayo Akinfe

[1] It is no secret that the governors of Nigeria’s five states in the southeast geo-political zone are presiding over the plight of Nigeria’s most industrious group of people. However, this energy and ingenuity is being wasted in the highly-limited retail sector, which if unleashed into manufacturing could fetch Nigeria five or six manufacturing conglomerates

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