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Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Nigeria will have an annual budget ratio of $1bn to every 1m citizens. In 2023 for instance, with a population of 200m, our national budget shall not be less than $200bn

[2] Every one of Nigeria’s 36 states shall generate at least twice the amount of its running costs. Any state that fails to do this over two successive quarters shall be dissolved and incorporated into one of its neighbours 

FORMER Imo State governor Hon Emeka Ihedioha has apologised to Ndigbo over his recent comments at the 2022 New Yam festival ceremony in Ghana where he called all those supporting Peter Obi's presidential ambitions as saboteurs.

NIGERIA'S foremost female disc jockey in the UK Florence Otedola popularly known as DJ Cuppy has graduated from the famous University of Oxford with a Master’s degree in African Studies.

DJ Cuppy is one of the leading Nigerians who dominate the London social scene, handling turntables across the capital every weekend. She is one of an elite bands that includes the likes of DJ Abass, DJ KC, DJ Kashif, DJ Jaido, Deoba Authentic, DJ Naija, DJ Mind the Gap and DJ Alexxo.

ARMED bandits operating in the Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State have stepped up their activities of late audaciously increasing the amount they tax farmers by N12m ($27,775) before allowing them to get on with their daily business.

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is planning to include an additional 2,000 party members in the newly constituted campaign council to placate those who were unhappy with his original 422-man body.

NIGERIA-eligible teenage centreback Bosun Lawal has been promoted to the Glasgow Celtic first team by head coach Ange Postecoglou giving him the opportunity to make this weekend's match day squad.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria's economic and human development indicators will be compared annually with those of other Mint nations like Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey and Brics nations like Brazil, India, Russia, China and South Africa, to ensure we never fall behind

[2] At the moment, Nigeria's human development index is on a par with Pakistan in terms of literacy rates, healthcare centres, employment, GDP, etc. We should aim to doubt this over the next 10 years

QUESTION marks have been raised about the health status of former Lagos State governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu after he missed the signing if a peace pact in Abuja having flown to London for medical reasons.

CLAIMS that former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will stand down after a single four-year term for an Igbo candidate have been played down by one of his campaign spokesman who said it is too early to agree on such a plan.

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) chairman Senator Abdullahi Adamu has written to the party's presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu asking him to withdraw the recently-published Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) list so it can be discussed further.