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GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu was sworn-in today for a second term as the Ondo State governor and used his inauguration speech to call for the establishment of state police forces as the only way to combat the growing insecurity in the country.

NIGERIA'S chronic insecurity problems look set to get significantly worse after militants in the Niger Delta threatened to join the fray by destroying all federal government property in Lagos and Abuja over the marginalisation of the region.

LAWMAKERS in the Ogun State House of Assembly have initiated plans to legislate on animal husbandry and related activities in a development that will make open grazing illegal and force all herdsmen and pastoralists to operate from ranches.

NIGERIA'S senate has conformed President Muhammadu Buhari's nominee Abdulrasheed Bawa as the substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) despite stiff opposition to his appointment.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) One of the hallmarks of a visionary leadership is its ability to multi-task. When it comes to running your economy, this means diversification, whereby you expand into several sectors at the same time as China and India are currently doing so successfully

NIGERIA may get some economic respite before the end of the year after analysts at US bank Goldman Sachs raised their price forecasts for crude oil for the second and third quarters of 2021 to about $75 a barrel.

GOVERNOR Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has ordered the immediate re-opening of Shasha market in Ibadan and the closure of the interim annex which was established in Iroko during the closure in response to the recent outbreak of violence.

NIGERIA'S senate has confirmed the recently-retired four military service chiefs as non-career ambassadors-designate paving the way for them to take over the running of overseas missions after a brief hearing today.

NIGERIA'S information minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that the federal government cannot take on the armed bandits causing mayhem across the country because it is concerned about destroying the forests from which they operate.

GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said that his Bauchi State counterpart Bala Mohammed should be held responsible of the assassins who have tried to execute him succeed because he is their main backers.