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SUPER Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr is confident tonight's friendly match against Ukraine will produce one or two players that will go on to become the mainstay of the team when it commences the 2020 World Cup and 2021 African Nations Cup qualifiers.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) One good thing to have come out of Nigeria’s 2019 elections is that a few governors have woken up to the realisation that they need to work on their state’s internally generated revenue (IGR). It is crystal clear to them that you simply cannot provide good governance or any kind of infrastructural development when your running costs are about four times the revenue you generate

MEMBERS of the youth wing of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has declared that the north central geo-political zone will never be part of northern Nigeria and will continue to fight for the liberation of its people.

NIGERIAN-born robotics engineer Silas Adekunle has shut down the UK engineering firm Reach Robotics that he co-founded a few years ago saying he now intends to focus on other things.

Mr Adekunle who gained international attention with his famous Mekamon robot, runs Reach Robotics from Bristol in southwest England. One of his co-founders John Rees confirmed that the decision has been made to close the business and appoint administrators, effective from September 2.

THOUSANDS of Nigerian passengers face being stranded over the next few days as British Airways announced it has been forced to cancel almost all its flights from UK airports on the first day of a pilots strike.

HUNDREDS of South Africans walked out of a meeting in Johannesburg called to combat the ongoing scourge of xenophobia when Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) founder Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi asked them to remember the sacrifices made by other Africans during the liberation struggle.

FORMER Abia State governor and current chief whip of the Nigerian senate Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has sold his shareholding in Gambian-registered First International Banking (Fib) for about $10m ending his presence the financial markets of six African companies.

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] Do you know that between 1960 and 1995, Nigeria spent over $61bn to fight apartheid, more than any other country in the world. This was supposed to be an investment in the future of our continent but alas, typically, we have just wasted that money. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, Nigeria has failed to come up with a coherent pan-African roadmap

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Over the last fortnight or so we have been making a lot of noise about the fact that Toyota is locating its new assembly plant in Ghana instead of Nigeria without debating the real issue. By 2030, about one third of the world’s cars will be electric, so why are we Africans not part of this environmental revolution?

GOVERNORS of the five Igbo-speaking states in the southeast geo-political zone have said they are ready to engage in dialogue with the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) to resolve their differences.