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West Ham join the race to sign dashing Nigerian winger before the transfer window closes

ENGLISH Championship side West Ham have joined the list of European clubs looking to sign Nigerian winger Daniel Job before the close of the current summer transfer window putting in a firm offer of €4m for his services.

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Whoever wins Nigeria’s next presidential election needs to summon all of the country’s enterprueners to Aso Rock and read them the riot act. We need to invest in manufacturing or we will face eternal ruin

Ayo Akinfe

[1] One of the weaknesses of any developing economy is that she lacks a class of entrepreneurs and local investors who can step up national production whenever there is a need for it. To understand this, bear in mind that immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbour on December 1941, the chairmen on the three major US automobile companies were immediately summoned by President Franklin Roosevelt to the White House and given production targets

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Man United add to the controversy surrounding Osimhen by making a formal enquiry about him

ENGLISH Premier League giants Manchester United have added to the controversy surrounding Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen by making an enquiry for his services to his Turkish clubside Galatasaray.

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Now that the Osun polls are out of the way, we need a national election plan that recommends a dedicated minister for manufacturing with a mandate to turn the following cities into specialist industrial zones:

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nnewi - Automobile manufacturing

[2] Akure - Cocoa processing and chocolate

[3] Orlu - Pharmaceuticals

[4] Aba - Clothing and footwear

[5] Abeokuta - Railway carriages and engines

[6] Kano - Groundnut, neem, millet and sorghum processing

[7] Damaturu - Dairy products

[8] Port Harcourt - Shipbuilding, boatmaking and fishing equipment

[9] Calabar - Aircraft assembly

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Awoniyi reaches agreement to join newly-promoted Premier League side Coventry

NEWLY-promoted English Premier League side Coventry City has reached an agreement with Super Eagles striker Taiwo Awoniyi to join them before the closure of the current summer transfer window.

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With Nigeria needing to attract foreign direct investment from whatever quarter we can, our 2027 presidential candidates are going to have to repeal the country's Draconian homophobic laws

Ayo Akinfe

[1] If you ask me, having Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) makes it imperative that Nigeria becomes a mainstream player in the global economy. It is highly embarrassing that Africa accounts for 18% of the world’s population but only 3% of its trade and 1% of global manufacturing. It falls to Nigeria to correct this imbalance

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Bolton and Charlton monitor Okonkwo after indications that he wants to leave Wrexham

SUPER Eagles goalkeeper Arthur Okonkwo is being monitored by English Championship sides Charlton Athletic and Bolton Wanderers after he indicated that he may be leaving Wrexham after the club signed Anthony Patterson from Sunderland for £8m.

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Are any of Nigeria’s presidential candidates aware of the fact that with the growing demand for solar panels, the global glass industry is worth over $105bn a year

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Were our politics mature, the economic teams of all our parties would know that the global glass manufacturing market size was valued at $106.44bn in 2021 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 5.2% between 2022 and 2030

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Arsenal step up quest for Osimhen demanding him in exchange for Martinelli and Nwaneri

ENGLISH Premier League champions Arsenal have launched an audacious bid to sign Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen before the close of the current summer transfer window by offering his club Galatasaray Gabriel Martinelli and Ethan Nwaneri in exchange.

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As the world’s largest black nation, Nigeria has to found a Global Anthropological Centre that will ascertain if negroid people are wholly homo sapien

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Homo Sapien man has long be regarded as the ape that got lucky. Unlike our cousins Homo Neanderthalis, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Naledi and Homo Neanderthalis, we survived the Ice Age, partly thanks to the fact that we bred in sufficient numbers

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