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Man has always managed to turn adversity into opportunity. I am thus perplexed as to how Nigeria has not used the herdsman crisis to turn the nation into the world's largest milk producer by 2030

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Anywhere else you go on planet earth, a crisis leads to the introduction of measure that turn the adversity into opportunity

[2] Just look at World War Two. After suffering severe shortages during the conflict, the Europeans introduced their Common Agriculture Policy. This led to the biggest food glut ever seen

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Forest activate Ola Aina's contract extenson iin bid to keep him for the forthcoming season

ENGLISH Premier League giants Nottingham Forest have activated the one-year extension of Super Eagles fullback  Ola Aina’s contract effectively ending any interest in Manchester City securing his services during the summer transfer window.

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It is time Nigerians latch on to Martin Luther King’s theory of the fierce urgency of now before the gulf between us and the major developing economies gets too wide to bridge

Ayo Akinfe

[1] On December 22 1956, American newspapers were full of pictures of Dr Martin Luther King riding on a mixed bus with white folks after the Alabama Bus Boycott has been called off a day earlier. Dr King was the first person to ride on non-segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama on December 21 1956 to make the point that victory had been won

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Maryam Abacha claims money her husband left behind vanished immediately after his death

GENERAL Sani Abacha's widow Maryam has thrown fresh light on the corrupt environment that engulfed the nation following her husband's death pointing out that millions of dollars he left behind went missing immediately after his demise.

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I am still wracking my brains trying to figure out how Nigeria can replicate the 20% GDP growth rates we enjoyed in the early 1970s

Ayo Akinfe

[1] How many Nigerians know that the Gowon regime was getting an average GDP growth rate of about 20% They did it by adopting a simple formula of gathering the best brains around them. They had a National Economic Council (NEC) which Gowon chaired and Obafemi Awolowo served as its vice chairman

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I am still wracking my brains trying to figure out how Nigeria can replicate the 20% GDP growth rates we enjoyed in the early 1970s

Ayo Akinfe

[1] How many Nigerians know that the Gowon regime was getting an average GDP growth rate of about 20% They did it by adopting a simple formula of gathering the best brains around them. They had a National Economic Council (NEC) which Gowon chaired and Obafemi Awolowo served as its vice chairman

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Wolves offer Nigeria-eligible youngster Temple Ojinnaka his first professional contract

ENGLISH Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers has offered Nigeria-eligible defender Temple Ojinnaka a professional contract after he impressed the coaches in the club's academy.

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Has anyone ever sat down and considered how many jobs would be created across Nigeria if we initiated an ambitious power progamme? It would take millions of youths out of crime and religious bigotry

Ayo Akinfe

[1] A 10,000MW hydro-electric power plant at the confluence of the Rivers Niger and Benue in Lokoja

[2] An 830km coastal wind farm stretching from Badagry to Calabar

[3] A 5,000MW gas-fired plant in Bonny

[4] An Usman Dan Fodio Solar farm stretching across Zamfara, Kebbi and Sokoto states

[5] An El-Kanemi Solar Farm stretching across Borno and Yobe states

[6] A 2,000MW hydroelectric plant at Yola along the River Benue

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Ireland deports 35 Nigerians aboard chartered flight for breaching their immigration rules

IRELAND has deported 35 Nigerians including five children using a chartered flight from Dublin to fly them to Lagos for breaching immigration rules that made them illegal immigrants in the country.

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Nigeria's 37m Ndigbo are renown for their industrious nature that enables them to take retailing everywhere. I want to see someone of the calibre of Michael Okpara or Ukpabi Asika emerge and convert this energy into industrial output

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Do you know that Michael Okpara dedicated 45% of his annual budget to education when he was the premier of the old Eastern Region? MI Power as he was called had one mission and that was to catch up and overtake the Western region in terms of education

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