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BRITISH Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has rejected calls for the UK to pay reparations for its involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade saying African traditional rulers and merchants are just as much to blame for the development.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria’s intelligence agencies must be compelled to publish details of any politician, monarch or publicly exposed person on whom they have information that he could be a sponsor of terrorists, bandits, kidnappers or hoodlums

[2] Herdsmen association Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria and all its splinter groups must be declared terrorist organisations

NIGERIA and Russia have agreed to replace a 59-year-old aviation agreement as part of a programme aimed at updating air transport relations and creating opportunities for stronger connectivity between both nations.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Upon election, we will immediately announce the creation of a South East Industrial Directorate (SEID) with a mandate to turn the geo-political zone into one huge manufacturing hub. Kind of similar to Germany’s Ruhr Valley

[2] After assuming government, we will immediately release Nnamdi Kanu and appoint him as the chief executive of this new agency. We will obviously also drop all charges against him and decriminalise Ipob

NIGERIAN teenage sensation Zadok Yohana could make his English Premier league debut this weekend as he has finally returned to training over the last week having been out of action with injury since the start of the season.

Ayo Akinfe

BRITAIN has committed a sum of $335,000 towards establishing a new platform designed to channel more domestic investment into women-led businesses in Nigeria to be known as the RiTA Investment Network.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Over the last 20 years of so, rich Nigerians have been flocking to Dubai in huge numbers to throw lavish parties. Even our leaders hold the weddings of their children there, while many Nigerian businesses, old school associations, community groups, etc, who could easily hold retreats in Nigeria, chose to go to Dubai for jamborees

NIGERIAN students studying in the UK as foreign pupils will have to demonstrate access to at least £14,130 in living expenses as from November 30 under new laws just introduced by the British Home Office.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As 22 African heads of state converge on Moscow over the next two days, Nigeria has to find a way to address her $100bn annual infrastructure deficit and 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