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Ayo Akinfe

[1] We declare that from this date henceforth, we shall not flee in the face of attacks from the Nigerian security forces. Whenever we are holding peaceful demonstrations and the police and/or army are sent to shoot us, we will stay put and be shot. Martyrdom is a necessary price that has to be paid for freedom

FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua is to undergo elbow surgery later this month as he prepares for a possible comeback fight with Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk before the end of the year.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] On December 22, 1956, American newspapers were full of pictures of Dr Martin Luther King riding on a mixed bus with white folks after the Alabama Bus Boycott has been called off a day earlier. Dr King was the first person to ride on non-segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama on December 21 1956 to make the point that victory had been won

ENGLISH Premier League side Crystal Palace has revived its interest in Super Eagles fullback Bright Osayi-Samuel with a view to signing him from Fenerbahce during the forthcoming summer transfer window.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Let me make this crystal clear once more. About 90% of Nigeria’s problems stem from the fact that we are not productive enough as an economy. As long as things remain the way they are, corruption, brigandage, tribalism, ethnic mistrust, religious upheaval, kidnapping, terrorism, etc, will continue to thrive

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Ban the import of everything but essential items like medicines and heavy machinery

[2] Stop exporting crude oil as production costs may soon exceed world prices. Only refined products will be exported from henceforth

[3] End the federal allocation formula as there will be no money to share soon anyway at this rate

[4] Ask every company that has sold a finished good to Nigeria over the last 10 years to come and open a manufacturing unit there

ENGLISH Premier League giants Tottenham Hotspurs have stepped up plans to sign Nigerian striker Victor Boniface from German side Bayer Leverkusen during the forthcoming summer transfer window.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] This Germanic fighting spirit is something we desperately need in Nigeria. Within five years, they had gone from bombed ruins to a nation of industrial estates. By 1954, just nine years after the war, West Germany actuality won the Fifa World Cup

[2] Most shockingly, Germany managed to develop herself into the world’s third largest economy behind the US and Japan within two decades

GOVERNOR Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister Nyesom Wike have held a reconciliatory meeting in Abuja as part of a plan to resolve their differences and restore normal governance to the state.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Unfortunately, the last decade or so has been the most divisive in our history. When you look at the lingering effects of the Fulani herdsmen crisis, it is clear that we are now a highly traumatised nation in desperate need of healing