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PAN-cultural group the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has called for the resignation of Nigeria's military top brass over the botched bombing raid that killed 85 villagers at Tudun Biri in Kaduna State over the weekend.

NIGERIAN social care workers coming to the UK are set to be hit hard by new Draconian measures just introduced by the British government aimed at curtailing immigration which involve banning their families from joining them.

NIGERIA'S Super Falcons have now set their sights firmly on reclaiming the Women's African Cup of Nations next year after qualifying for the tournament yesterday by beating Cape Verde 2-1 to secure a 7-1 aggregate victory.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We should aim for annual double digit economic growth between 2024 and 2030. If we enjoy 10% growth every year for a decade, it will increase Nigeria's GDP to over $1trn

NIGERIA Air Force (Naf) officials have the Falcon 900B aircraft from the presidential fleet for sale as part of a government drive to get rid of unnecessary aircraft that are currently sitting idle in Abuja.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Every second, the sun’s core fuses about 600m tonnes of hydrogen into helium and in the process converts 4m tonnes of matter into energy. This energy, which can take between 10,000 and 170,000 years to escape the core, is the source of the sun’s light and heat

NIGERIA'S federal government has finally taken delivery of the Second Niger Bridge linking Asaba in Delta State with Onitsha on Anambra State after the contractor handling the project handed it over to works minister David Umahi.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Let me reteriate the point that Nigeria is not productive enough. Every other problem we face as a nation stems from this basic fact

[2] Cast you minds back to around 1970 and 1971 when Nigeria was enjoying 25% gross domestic product (GDP) growth. There were no religious extremists, terrorists, armed bandits, secessionists, public officers stealing their whole budgets, civil servants looting pension funds, etc

FORMER Anambra State governor and 2023 presidential candidate Peter Obi condemned the massive size of Nigeria's contingent to the ongoing COP28 climate summit in Dubai saying that having a 1411-member delegation is wasteful.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Given that the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is totally overwhelmed by the security situation, we need at least one new layer of security

[2] We will thus create regional security forces along the same lines as Amotekun. For them to become operational, these regional forces must be approved by their state houses of assembly and will operate across their geo-political zones to prevent governors using them as private armies