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Ayo Akinfe

[1] If you were to conduct a poll of Nigerians today and ask them the three main issues bugging them the most, your answers would probably be security, inflation and power supply. It appears that our governments at state and federal level are at a loss about how to tackle these three problems

DOMESTIC carrier Value Jet Airlines and the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) have entered into an agreement that will make the company the official airline of all of Nigeria's national teams.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] This picture is of a street in London during the Blitz. All this debris was cleared up by volunteers and neighbourhood committees who were determined not to have their spirits broken by German bombardment

FORMER Wimbledon and Aston Villa striker John Fashanu was recently arrested in Abuja over a land dispute involving himself and a group of investors who apparently agreed to pay more than £500,000 for the 22-acre site.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria is the world’s number two okra producer with an annual crop of 2m tonnes, behind India, the undisputed number one origin with 6m tonnes. Between them, the two countries dominate global production accounting for over 50% of world supplies

[2] It is estimated that the global okra market is worth about $353m, as the world has begun to appreciate its medicinal and nutritional value

ENGLISH Premier League giants Liverpool have joined the race to sign Super Eagles fulback Ola Aina at the end of the season in response to the fact that he and his current club Nottingham Forest are yet to agree a new deal.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We must woo two or three automobile manufacturers to come and open plants that manufacture modern day molue buses. They should be double decker electric vehicles and come with air conditioning. As a nation, we should aim to manufacture these buses at about half the price of a competitive bus

[2] Nigeria should also aspire to become the world's leading manufacturer of flatscreen TVs that you can hang on the wall like clocks

NIGERIA'S hopes of securing the services of Freiburg goalkeeper Noah Atubolu have received a big boost after the German football federation left him out of their recent squad to face Italy in the Uefa Nations League quarterfinals on Thursday.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] It is no accident that Nigeria is so heavily populated. Do you know that between them, Nigeria and Cameroon account for 10% of the world’s languages? We need to build a tourist industry around this

[2] If there ever was a Tower of Babel, it is out there either along the Nigeria/Cameroon border or near the River Niger/Benue confluence. We need to find it and turn Nigeria into one of the most visited nations on earth

BRITAIN has introduced stringent new visa rules for care providers and health workers aimed at curtailing their recruitment from overseas as part of a major crackdown on migrant employees from developing nations from across the Commonwealth.