AS many as 30m people may have been pushed into extreme poverty across sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic according to the findings of a new economic report just published by Bloomberg.

VOICE of Nigeria (Von) director-general Osita Okechukwu has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari and several other leading members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are secretly supporting the idea of an Igbo president in 2023.

OLUWO of Iwoland Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi has urged Yoruba monarchs and elders to  get together and engage President Muhammadu Buhari on the need to drop the charges against Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo currently being held in Benin Republic.

GOVERNMENT ministers have told the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) to table their plans with regards to recruiting another Super Eagles head coach to replace the outgoing Gernot Rohr before proceeding with the process.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] I am sure that like me, a lot of you are tired of hearing how Nigeria’s sums simply do not add up. We have an annual budget of $33bn but an annual infrastructural deficit of $100bn, so something has to give

 
[2] In this post-coronavirus era, investors remain weary, so something drastic simply needs to happen. Basically Nigeria needs to get hit with an economic meteorite that will change her dynamics forever 

WASHINGTON has reiterated that it may stop supplying Nigeria with military assistance if the federal government continues to abuse human rights using weapons supplied by the US to crack down on political opposition.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Farm tractors
[2] Electric automobiles
[3] Solar panels
[4] Mobile phone handsets
[5] Electricity transformers
[6] Railway carriages
[7] iPads
[8] Flatscreen television sets
[9] Roadsweeping machines
[10] Fridge-Freezers

]SEVERAL northern socio-political groups have warned President Muhammadu Buhari against acting on his recent promise to release indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu in a bid to ease the political tension currently bedevilling the nation.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I have been wracking my brain endlessly as the 2023 elections loom, trying to figure out how Nigeria addresses her $100bn annual infrastructure deficit and alas, I can only come up with one solution - Putinomics!

[2] Putinomics is basically what you could term forced local direct investment (FLDI). It involves the president telling Russia’s wealthy citizens, who we know as the oligarchs, that they must invest in the country’s infrastructure

REMITTANCES to low and middle income countries like Nigeria have been projected to grow by about 7.3% during the course of 2021 to about $589bn as the global economy starts to witness a return to normality in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.