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SUPER Eagles head coach Eric Chelle could be on his way to Algeria as local clubside JS Kabylie has made enquiries about his services in the hope of exploiting the stalemate between the tactician and the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF).

Ayo Akinfe

[1]Yesterday, the APC held primaries for National Assembly positions. Did the elections involve a discussion about how we are spending about $11bn importing products we can easily produce locally?

[2] Over recent years, the Central Bank of Nigeria has waded into the matter by drawing up a list of products for which foreign exchange will not be made available to importers but that is only one tenth of the battle.

TURKISH Süper Lig club Trabzonspor have told English Premier League side Fulham that they will have to come up with about €40m if they want to secure the services of Super Eagles defender Chibuike Nwaiwu during the forthcoming transfer window.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Open a 20,000 square kilometre National Game Reserve in Taraba State. Make it the world’s largest wildlife sanctuary. Designed along similar lines to South Africa’s Kruge National Park, it should employ about 5,000 park rangers to police and fight off poachers

ENGLISH Premier League side Nottingham Forest have presented Super Eagles striker Taiwo Awoniyi with a special commemorative shirt highlighting the fact that he has made 100 appearances for the club.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Ending the current insecurity epidemic. There are 6m weapons in the country at the moment and criminals are having a field day. This needs urgent addressing

[2] Putting out all the ethnic fires currently raging across the country. Ethnic mistrust is now such an issue, it virtually impossible to have any serious national debate on any subject. People support or criticise regimes based on what part of the country they are from vis-a-via where the president is from

SCOTTISH giants Glasgow Rangers have joined the race to sign promising Nigerian centreback Akpe Victory from Hungarian side Zalaegerszegi during the forthcoming summer transfer window.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] You know, sometimes maybe if we celebrate ourselves and acknowledge how much we can do, it will spur us on to doing greater things. Do you know that Nigeria accounts for about 70% of global yam production with an annual output of about 60m tonnes?

BRENTFORD defender Michael Kayode has turned down the offer of representing Nigeria at senior international level opting instead to feature for Italy the country of his birth for whom he has already featured as a junior.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] It may surprise you all to know that this product which is abundantly grown in Nigeria is increasingly being used in sustainable packaging globally. Do you know that in 2025, the global sustainable packaging market was valued at $313.7bn, with the calabash representing a huge chunk of that. Just imagine Nigeria having just 10% of that market