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ENGLISH Football Association officials have invited five players of Nigerian extraction to England's U15 Emerging Talent Camp in a bid to tie them down and prevent them pledging their allegiance to Nigeria.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] It should start off with an agreement that both China and India will open pharmaceutical factories in Nigeria. In addition, Nigeria wants sole distribution rights of every tropical vaccine across Africa

NIGERIAN teenage midfielder Aderemi Adeoye has decided to seek openings at several alternative English Football League clubs after Championship side Middlesbrough opted not to offer him a professional contract after a week of trials.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Team sports - When I was in secondary school, we participated in team sports every day. Handball, basketball, volleyball, football, hockey, etc were events in which we were all trained. Across the spectrum we had national games festivals for universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, police colleges, etc, in which talent emerged. We then had the National Sports Festival which produced the crème de la crème. Can we reintroduce all this immediately?

ENGLISH Premier League side Nottingham Forest has joined the ranks of European clubs looking to sign Nigerian teenage sensation Abdoulaye Agbejoye following his recent exploits in the ongoing West African U21tournament in Ivory Coast.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] No matter how anyone looks at things, religious capital presents Nigeria with the biggest potential source of internal finance for investment. Even if we appoint the most brilliant economist on earth as our finance minister, he or she will never be able to crack the Nigerian economy without tapping into religious finance

NIGERIA-eligible midfielder David Ozoh looks set to leave Uefa Conference League champions Crystal Palace probably for continental Europe as several clubsides have made enquiries about securing his services.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Quadruple our 3,500km railway network, bringing the total to about 15,000km by 2030

[2] Build fences across our northern borders to curtail the flow of arms and ammunition into Nigeria

[3] Increase the size of our 195,000km road network to match Vietnam’s 570,500km

[4] Drastically expand home construction to plug the 28m housing units gap in the Nigerian market

ENGLISH Championship side Birmingham City  have stepped up their interest in Super Eagles winger Philip Otele in the hope of signing him before the close of the current summer transfer window.

Otele, 27, is currently playing for Swiss side Basel who have made it clear that they are prepared to sell the versatile forward if they get an offer of at least €5m. Birmingham City are hoping to gain promotion to the top flight of English football and are hoping that Otele, can help with this push.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I would build at least one silo in each of our 774 local government areas to store cash crops and food crops. We would then build processsing plants around these silos with the goal of adding at least 50% value to every agricultural product we produce

[2] My government would get the Ajaokuta, Oshogbo and Aladja steel mills running at full capacity. Nigeria needs to produce at least 10m tonnes of steel a year to industrialise