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(1) A a Yaoundé-Douala-Calabar-Ikom line that will transport Cameroonian cocoa to the processing plant at Ikom in Cross River State

(2) A Lomé-Cotonou-Badagry-Apapa-Warri-Port Harcourt line that will link up West Africa’s coastal ports

(3) An Abuja-Niamey-Ouagadougou-Bamako-Conakry-Dakar line that will open up the Ecowas region to finished Nigerian goods

JAMES Ibori's lawyer Bhadresh Gohil looks set to forfeit $39m to the UK authorities after he appeared in a London high court confiscation heating where he was described as the architect of the former governor's corruption scam.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As we stand, the whole world is moving away from fossil fuels. By 2050, our crude oil will be useless as no one will want it. I can even see the UN introducing new environmental; regulations that may limit its use. Our first priority must be to get all new industrial concerns to generate their own power. Nowhere in the world today are industrial start-ups dependent on the national grid for their power supply

POLICE in Vietnam have confiscated an estimated 345,000 used condoms which had been cleaned and resold as new to unsuspecting customers with a high risk of passing on venereal diseases to them.

MALI'S new government has been sworn-in in the capital Bamako today after the interim president Bah Ndaw named the members of his cabinet who will govern the country for the next 18 months.

NIGERIA'S presidency has hit back at fears raised by a member of the British House of Lords Baroness Anne Cox who wrote to the Commonwealth Secretariat expressing her concerns over the escalating violence in the country asking it to intervene in the matter.

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike has attributed the free and fair conduct of the recent gubernatorial elections in Edo State to the threat by the UK and US to impose visa bans on anyone who rigged the polls.

NIGERIA'S federal government appears to have backtracked on plans to build a railway linking Kano and the town of Maradi in neighbouring Niger Republic with the presidency saying that it will only be responsible for the Nigerian end of the line.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Volkswagen Beetle
(2) AK-47 assault rifle
(3) Kenwood mixer
(4) Phillips pressing iron
(5) Samsung mobile phone
(6) Dell laptop computer
(7) Sekonda wrist watch
(8) Bosch fridge-freezer
(9) LG flatscreen television
(10) Nike trainers

FOUR former employees of Signatious Hotel in Warri who were stripped on the orders of former minister of state for education Kenneth Gbagi have demanded N1bn on compensation and public apology from him.