NIGERIA is facing the prospect of unprecedented inflation in 2020 as the combination of devastating floods and reduced farm output as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic which has limited economic activity looks set to make food prices spiral out of control.

PAN-Igbo socio-political organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) has warned that as many as three governors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the southeast geo-political zone will defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) soon.

FORMER Super Eagles midfielder Chris Obodo has been freed by the abductors who kidnapped him in Delta State yesterday evening after paying what is believed to be a handsome ransom fee to regain his freedom.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) It is inevitable that Donald Trump is facing a humiliating scenario whereby after all his bluster, he is going to have to concede that he lost the recent US presidential elections. I am sure his biggest problem now is how to do it without losing face

(2) This is where Africa needs to step in. Being the African giant and the world’s largest black nation, Nigeria again is obliged to take centre stage with an unprecedented foreign policy coup

MUSICIANS Davido and Burna Boy look set to be the targets of government persecution over the coming weeks after the police obtained a court order authorising them to investigate their contributions to the recent #EndSARS protests.

NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials only restrained themselves from sacking Super Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr on Friday after the woeful 4-4 draw with Sierra Leone because the team has to play the return leg in Freetown on Tuesday.

NIGERIAN Army witness before the #EndSARS judicial panel of inquiry in Lagos State has revealed that the chief of army staff Lt General Tukur Buratai deployed trainee soldiers to the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20 to confront unarmed protesters there.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Oil and gas
(2) Value added tax
(3) All solid minerals
(4) local security
(5) All roads
(6) Power supply
(7) Local government funding
(8) Attracting foreign investors
(9) Responsibility for fertilisers and all other farming inputs
(10) Vocational education

NIGERIAN Army commanders have testified before the Lagos State Panel of Judicial Inquiry probing police brutality and the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate on October 20 claiming that no demonstrators was shot.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Unlike many Eagles fans, I am not actually surprised our boys surrendered a four goal lead yesterday against Sierra Leone. Recent draws against Ukraine, Brazil and Tunisia have shown that this team is incapable of game management

(2) It is standard convention that when you are in the lead and in control of a match, you take the sting out of the game. You reduce the tempo, keep hold of the ball, knock it around and turn the match into a borefest