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Ayo Akinfe

[1] As we prepare for a new government, no matter dominates political discourse in Nigeria today as the growing spate of insecurity across the country. Could it just be that the Fulani have the least hope in Nigeria as they have suffered from the most irresponsible form of leadership with the most hopeless governors, making crime their only way of surviving?

SPECIAL adviser to the Lagos State governor on drainage and water resources Joe Igboekwe has challenged Nigeria's Igbos to decide what they want from 2023 as they cannot be requesting power on one hand and be chanting secession on the other.

PATIENTS at Nigeria's first teaching hospital the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan will now have to pay a N1,000 electricity charge daily due to high cost of power tariffs and diesel in the country. 

PLANS to address Nigeria's ongoing Fulani herdsmen crisis commercially is currently underway after Greenlands Integrated Agribusinesses Group announced that it is processing financing of about N11bn ($26.45n) for investment in the sector.

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike's supporters have not given up hope of their man being selected as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential candidate as they still believe Alhaji Atiku Abubakar can drop Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for their man.

NIGERIA-eligible teenage fullback Tayo Adaramola could be on his way to Preston North End next season as the English Championship side has become the latest club to express an interest in the defender.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] All of Nigeria's 774 local government areas will be responsible for providing waste disposal, fire and ambulance services within their domains

[2] Local governments will be funded internally by the charging of a local tax, which will be augmented by a federal grant representing no more than 10% of their total expenditure. As a principle, all recurrent expenditure must be met by internally generated revenue

MEMBERS of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from the southeast geo-political zone are demanding that the party's presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu  sets aside the positions of senate president and secretary to the federal government to them.

FORMER Super Eagles winger Some Aluko and Nigeria-eligible striker Folarin Balogun were both on the scoresheet yesterday when English Premier League giants Arsenal beat League One side Ipswich Town 5-1 in a pre-season friendly.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I have been wracking my brain endlessly trying to figure out how Nigeria addresses her $100bn annual infrastructure deficit and alas, I can only come up with one solution - Putinomics!

[2] Putinomics is basically what you could term forced local direct investment (FLDI). It involves the president telling Russia’s wealthy citizens, who we know as the oligarchs, that they must invest in the country’s infrastructure