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Ayo Akinfe

(1) Nigeria is the open defecation capital of the world, as one in four citizens, representing about 47m people across the country relieve themselves out in the open according to the World Health Organisation

(2) Nigeria needs about$2.7bn to end open defecation by 2025. Of that, the government is expected to provide around 25%. I say turn this into an electricity investment programme

NIGERIA is poised to miss out on $600m that could have been gained from the imposition of a 35% import tax on 3m pre-paid electricity metres after the federal government decided to waive the levy on the machines due to be imported from China.

THIRTY Three Nigerian properties in the UK have been earmarked and face the risk of being confiscated under the terms of a messy legal suit involving damage costs awarded to energy firm Eurafic Power by the London Court of International Arbitration.

FORMER finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has taken American citizenship as part of her ongoing campaign to become the next director-general of the World Trade organisation (WTO).

FORMER aviation minister Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has sent a libel letter to the Daily Trust newspaper warning that he will sue the publication over a recent article in which he was described as a drug-addled thug in designer wears.

NIGERIA'S Super Eagles are to play friendly games against Ivory Coast and Tunisia in Vienna next month as part of team's preparations for the resumption of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Kogi state can attract the likes of Siemens to build a 10,000MW hydro-electric power plant at Idah

(2) Kogi State can build a Niagara Falls-type tourist attraction at the confluence of the rivers Niger and Benue at Lokoja

(3) Taraba State can open the world’s largest nature reserve in Gembu

(4) Niger State can open the world’s largest cattle ranch in Mokwa

(5) Akwa Ibom State can attract investors to build Africa’s largest sea port at Ikot Abasi

FORMER All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman Adams Oshiomhole has labelled the recent car accident his motorcade suffered in Edo State which resulted in the death of two members of his security detail as an assassination attempt.

EGYPT and China have announced plans to sign a cooperation agreement on the production of a Covid-19 vaccine that would guarantee that the Arab giant will become the African manufacturing hub of any cure developed by the Chinese.

ENGLISH Premier League side Sheffield United have stepped up their interest in Super Eagles striker Emmanuel Dennis with a view to signing him from Belgian side Club Brugge ahead of the forthcoming season.