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Calvin Bassey will not feature against Mali as he returns to Fulham for treatment on his injury

FULHAM centreback Calvin Bassey will miss out on Nigeria's next friendly game against Mali taking place on Tuesday at the Grand Stade de Marrakech as he returned to his club today after picking up a knock in training.

 

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If President Tinubu is serious about expanding agricultural output in response to the cost of living crisis, he needs to float a Nigerian National Seed Company producing the following products, with the government taking say a 25% stake

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Cocoa - We need to boost our annual harvest to 1m tonnes from the current 330,000 tonnes

[2] Rice - We need to boost our national harvest to 10m tonnes from the current 8.5m tonnes

[3] Sugarcane - We need a 10m tonne crop, up from the current 1.5m tonnes

[4] Palm oil - We need to boost output to 20m tonnes from the current 1.4m tonnes

[5] Wheat - We desperately need to boost production to about 10m tonnes from the current 200,000 tonnes

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Anti-gang violence campaigner Richard Taylor passes away at 75 succumbing to prostate cancer

RICHARD Taylor the father of murdered schoolboy Damilola Taylor has died aged 75 after losing a long term fight against cancer giving up the ghost at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in  Woolwich earlier today.

 

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Tinubu expected to announce new national minimum wage on International Workers Day

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu is expected to announce a new national minimum wage on May 1 in commemoration of the International Labour Day and backdate its implementation to April when he delivers his nationwide address.

 

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Nigeria just needs four conglomerates in Man of God PLC, Dangote Industries, Innoson Enterprises and a privatised NNPC to diversify into widescale manufacturing and we will be fine

Ayo Akinfe

They need to all be active in the following sectors:

[1] Boat and ship making

[2] Aircraft parts manufacturing

[3] Armament production

[4] Agricultural equipment like tractors

[5] Medical equipment like ventilators

[6] Electrical equipment like transformers

[7] Motorcycles and bicycles

[8] Consumer electronic goods like fridges, freezers and washing machines

[9] Railway carriages and engines

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Niger Republic opens is land border with Nigeria in Birnin-Konni just adjacent to Sokoto State

NIGER Republic has opened its land border at Birnin-Konni that links the country with Sokoto State in a sure sign that the recent frosty relationship between both nations brought about by a coup d'etat in Niamey last year is starting to thaw.

 

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If President Tinubu really wants to get Nigeria going he needs to wage a war against vanity. All these millions spent on Owambes, private jets, foreign junkets and luxury goods need to be invested in job creation

Ayo Akinfe

[1] According to the African Development Bank, Nigeria has an annual infrastructural deficit of $100bn, yet our annual budget is a meagre $$30bn. Basically, what this means is that the government needs to quadruple its budget to address our infrastructure crisis

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Tinubu bans government officials from going on publicly-funded foreign trips for three months

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has placed a three month ban on government officials going publicly-funded foreign trips in response to the growing economic crisis gripping the country that has pushed the price of basic foodstuffs.

 

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I am looking forward to President Tinubu delivering an Easter message in which he tells Nigerians to abandon once and for all any dismemberment talk and focus on nation building

Ayo Akinfe

[1] When I look at the way Nigerians throw in the towel simply because their nation is going through the birthpains of nationhood, it makes me shudder. Are we really that fickle and shallow that we have zero staying power?

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Solid minerals minister wants National Assembly to pass laws making value addition compulsory

NIGERIA'S minister for solid mineral development Dele Alake has called on the National Assembly to offer legislative support to promote local value addition in sector as a means of aiding job creation in mineral-rich communities.

 

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