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BUDDING Nigerian domestic airline Air Peace has placed a firm order for a Boeing 737 Max aircraft following the recent recertified of the plane to resume flying as part of an ambitious plan to expand its operations post-lockdown.

SOUTH Africa has stopped administering the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine after doubts were raised about the efficacy of the jab against its local strain of the virus and has sold off 1m doses of its remaining consignment to 14 other African nations.

NIGERIAN diaspora remittances fell by 27% year-on-year in 2020 to $17.2bn from $23.55bn in 2019 as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic hurt Nigerians living abroad hard forcing them to reduce the amount they remit back home.

STANBIC IBTC Bank founder Atedo Peterside has urged the federal government to reconsider it plans to rehabilitate the Port Harcourt refinery pointing out that it should hold a national debate before spending a whopping $1.5bn on the project.

EXTREMIST group the Fulani Nationality Movement (Funam) has claimed responsibility for the assassination attempt on Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State over the weekend warning him that he will not be so lucky next time.

Ayo Akinfe 

(1) China- 12.6bn
(2) India - 2.1bn 
(3) Brazil- 895m 
(4) Vietnam- 760m
(5) Indonesia - 660m
(6) Pakistan - 295m 
(7) Thailand - 245m
(8) Mexico- 245m
(9) Italy - 205m
(10) Turkey - 175m

With a population of 200m people, surely Nigeria must manufacture at least 400m shoes a year. Maybe this is just a case of poor record keeping but I would like to know how many pairs of shoes our local cobblers produce annually.

NIGERIA now has a total of 23.23m people out of work giving the country the second highest unemployment rate in the world according to recent data just published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials have carried out a test run of a boat ride between Lagos and Port Novo ahead of the Super Eagles impending African Nations Cup qualifier against Benin Republic on March 27.

Ayo Akinfe 

FLAMBOUYANT lawmaker Senator Ademola Adeleke is set for a return to frontline politics again next year after the Osun State chapter of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) unanimously agreed to field him as their gubernatorial candidate in 2022.