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

LATE Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu's widow Bianca has joined the Nigerian government after President Bola Tinubu named her as the new minister of state for foreign in affairs in a long-awaited mid-term cabinet reshuffle that saw him bringing in five new faces.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] How many Nigerians are aware of the fact that in 2003, President Olusegun Obasanjo signed the Maputo Declaration compelling the federal and 36 state governors to spending 10% of their annual budgets on agricultural projects?

[2] Designed to combat unemployment, guarantee food security and ensure no African nation is wholly dependent on one commodity, the Maputo Declaration was supposed to represent a commitment to economic diversification

NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials have demanded three points and three goals from the Confederation of African Football (Caf) asking it to award their recently abandoned match against Libya to Nigeria.`         

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Cassava - World’s number one producer with an annual crop of 52m tonnes

[2] Yam - World’s number one producer with an annual crop of 40m tonnes

[3] Kolanuts - World’s number one producer with an annual crop of 150,000 tonnes

[4] Cashews - World’s number one producer with an annual crop of 922,000 tonnes

[5] Shea nuts - World’s number one producer with an annual crop of 370,000 tonnes

BRITAIN has responded to Nigeria's request that Air peace by granted a landing slot at Heathrow Airport saying that it is willing to sit down and discuss the matter at the International Civil Aviation summit which starts today..

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Raise maize output from the current 12.75m tonnes to match Mexico’s 28m tonnes

[2] Increase tomato production from the current 4m tonnes to match Pakistan’s 16.6m tonnes

[3] Increase rice production from the current 5.4m tonnes to match Thailand’s 25m tonnes

[4] Raise sugarcane production from current 1.3m tonnes to match South Africa’s 15m tonnes

Ayo Akinfe

[1] All of Nigeria’s 774 local government administrations will be obliged to organise their farmers into cooperative units

[2] Farmers will be encouraged to sell their produce, buy seedlings, pesticides and fertilisers, as well as farming equipment through their co-operatives to maximise efficiency and minimise overhead costs

[3] Every local government must build at least one food storage facility within its domain

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Not many people know that Nigeria is one of the world’s biggest agricultural producers. We are the world’s sixth largest farm produce producer. Unfortunately, this is not reflected in our economy because one third of all Nigerian farm produce goes to waste as a result of poor storage, transportation and refrigiration facilities

NIGERIA been removed from the global aviation watchlist that blacklists nations aircraft manufacturers have been asked to be wary of supplying dry lease aeroplanes to with the country's rating now rising to a whopping 75%.