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As Nigeria lives with the high cost of basic food items, are we aware of the fact that opening the following high speed railway lines and moving freight off our roads will at least halve distribution costs

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Lagos to Calabar

[2] Lagos to Abuja

[3] Lagos to Kano

[4] Makurdi to Abuja

[5] Makurdi to Lagos

[6] Makurdi to Kano

[7] Abuja to Maiduguri

[8] Port Harcourt to Abuja

[9] Makurdi to Port Harcourt

[10] Abuja to Sokoto

Why is this so? Let me tell you why:

[1] If we move freight off road and on to rail, whatever happens with the petrol subsidy becomes irrelevant

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As Nigeria lives with the high cost of basic food items, are we aware of the fact that opening the following high speed railway lines and moving freight off our roads will at least halve distribution costs

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Lagos to Calabar

[2] Lagos to Abuja

[3] Lagos to Kano

[4] Makurdi to Abuja

[5] Makurdi to Lagos

[6] Makurdi to Kano

[7] Abuja to Maiduguri

[8] Port Harcourt to Abuja

[9] Makurdi to Port Harcourt

[10] Abuja to Sokoto

Why is this so? Let me tell you why:

[1] If we move freight off road and on to rail, whatever happens with the petrol subsidy becomes irrelevant

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Newcastle sign Nigeria-eligible striker William Osula from Sheffield United for undisclosed fee

ENGLISH Premier League giants Newcastle United have signed Nigeria-eligible striker William Osula from Championship side Sheffield United for an undisclosed fee in a sign that it intends to compete with the title this forthcoming season.

 

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Nigeria is living with hyper-inflation which many attribute to the government’s decision to remove petrol subsidies. However, that removal was designed to save $8bn annually which if well invested would solve all these problems

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria currently spends $8bn a year out of her paltry $30bn annual budget subsidising petrol marketers. As a nation we simply cannot afford this. One does not need to be genius to know this wasteful spending has to go

[2] Most Nigerians are rightly scared about the inflationary impact the subsidy will have, so I believe these fears can be negated if the cash is used to fund infrastructural development that will improve their lives in other areas

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Nigeria's greatest medal hope Amusan coasts into semi finals winning her heat with ease

NIGERIA'S greatest medal hope at the ongoing Paris Olympics Tobi Amusan has qualified for the semi finals of the women's 100 metre hurdles event winning her heat comfortably with a time of 12.49 seconds.

 

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As this debate about the cost of basic food items rages on in an attempt to find a way to bring inflation under control, I hope the government is looking at a long term solution involving a new agriculture policy

Ayo Akinfe

[1] All of Nigeria's 774 local government areas will be obliged by law 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 these co-operatives to maximise efficiency and overhead costs

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

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Kamala picks Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate ahead of November election

AMERICAN vice president Kamala Harris has picked Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate ahead of November's presidential elections that will see her and former president Donald Trump involved in what is looking like a tight race.

 

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NFF hopeful of signing up Herve Renard after he agrees to take pay cut to manage Super Eagles

NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials are hopeful that they will be able to announce French coach Herve Renard as the new Super Eagles manager next week after it emerged that he has agreed to take a pay cut so he can be appointed.

 

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I hope this government is aware of the fact that it can bring down the price of basic food items dramatically if it launches a rural road rehabilitation programme

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As Nigerians continue to protest the effects of inflation and the fact that the cost of basic food items are soaring beyond reach, I wonder if they are aware of the fact that their country is the world’s sixth largest agricultural producer. Basically, what this means is that we have a solution to hand

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Canuk urges all Nigerians in the UK to be cautious in light of the recent disturbances

FOLLOWING the recent disturbances we have witnessed across several cities and towns in the UK over the last week the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk) is urging all of its constituents to be cautious.

 

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