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Ayo Akinfe

[1] There are currently about 9m unemployed people in Nigeria. Between 4% and 5% of the population are without jobs. Most these are youths not trained or educated and lack the skills required in a modern economy

[2] Countries like Brazil and South Africa have successfully introduced public works programmes of late, soaking up millions of unemployed youths. Nigeria needs a similar sort of programme if she is to address her unemployed crisis

SUPER Eagles head coach Jose Peseiro has been issued with a query by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for inviting inactive players to camp for the forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and Kigali.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I have been studying the Finnish railway industry of late and am very impressed with the way they have used it as a basis for industrialisation. If only Nigeria showed 10% of their productivity, we would have a high-speed pan-African railway network

NIGERIA'S senate is to begin discussing a bill that will grant diasporans voting rights later this week as part of the ongoing review of the 1999 constitution according to the senate majority leader Senator Opeyemi Bamidele.

NIGERIA'S ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the final results of the Bayelsa State governorship election released today by the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) with incumbent Governor Douye Diri being declared the winner.

BOAVISTA leftback Bruno Onyemaechi is a doubt for Nigeria's forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and Zimbabwe taking place over the next week after picking up an injury in a league game over the weekend.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Let us start with Imo State where incumbentent Governor Hope Uzodinma already been declared the winner. Imo has always had a presence in the palm oil industry and should be home to numerous processing plants making soap, cosmetics, animal feed, lubricants, etc for both domestic use and export

OPPOSITION parties have refused to accept the results of yesterday's gubernatorial elections in Imo State after the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) declared incumbent Governor Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] All elected officials and the members of their immediate families are barred from going overseas for medical treatment

[2] Exceptions may be made in the cases of rare specialist care. In such cases, affected officials need to write to the National Assembly seeking permission for such trips

[3] Any public official who needs specialist overseas care more than once during a four year tenure must vacate their office

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] With an internal market of 200m people and a further 150m consumers across the Ecowas sub-region, Nigeria has a captive automobile market and simply has to exploit this to the maximum

[2] As a people, we need to make a solemn pledge to at least assemble locally every passenger car used in the country. Importing finished cars has got to become a criminal offence