Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Mon, 03/22/2021 - 09:15
Ayo Akinfe
(1) China- 12.6bn
(2) India - 2.1bn
(3) Brazil- 895m
(4) Vietnam- 760m
(5) Indonesia - 660m
(6) Pakistan - 295m
(7) Thailand - 245m
(8) Mexico- 245m
(9) Italy - 205m
(10) Turkey - 175m
With a population of 200m people, surely Nigeria must manufacture at least 400m shoes a year. Maybe this is just a case of poor record keeping but I would like to know how many pairs of shoes our local cobblers produce annually.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 15:24
NIGERIA now has a total of 23.23m people out of work giving the country the second highest unemployment rate in the world according to recent data just published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 14:40
NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials have carried out a test run of a boat ride between Lagos and Port Novo ahead of the Super Eagles impending African Nations Cup qualifier against Benin Republic on March 27.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 13:53
Ayo Akinfe
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Sat, 03/20/2021 - 10:18
FLAMBOUYANT lawmaker Senator Ademola Adeleke is set for a return to frontline politics again next year after the Osun State chapter of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) unanimously agreed to field him as their gubernatorial candidate in 2022.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Sat, 03/20/2021 - 09:47
NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials are planning to fly all the Super Eagles players plying their trade in England and Scotland to Lagos in a private jet in a desperate bid to get round some of the coronavirus restrictions.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Sat, 03/20/2021 - 08:12
Ayo Akinfe
(1) With the latest set of agitations calling for the balkanisation of Nigeria into 100 different mini kingdoms, I believe we have a perfect opportunity to debate the insanity of such nonsensical suggestions. To take the debate about our future forward, we need to banish such misguided, ill-conceived, irrational, and primordial thoughts once and for all
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Fri, 03/19/2021 - 14:12
CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) officials injected a total of $5.62bn into the foreign exchange market in the fourth quarter of 2020 as part of desperate efforts to stabilise the naira and stem its incessant fall as a result of dwindling government revenue.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Fri, 03/19/2021 - 13:34
GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has met with German foreign ministry officials to demand the return of precious artefacts looted during the 1897 Massacre of Benin revealing that he intends to house them in his proposed Edo Museum of West African Art.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Fri, 03/19/2021 - 12:43
NIGERIAN-born professor of public international law at the University of Oxford Dapo Akande has been jointly nominated by the UK and Nigeria as their candidate to serve on the International Law Commission for the 2023 to 2027 tenure.
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