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GOVERNMENT ministers have directed the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to ground 91 private jets belonging to several wealthy Nigerians over their alleged refusal to pay import duties running to over N30bn ($73m).

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We will boost generated electricity from the current 7,000MW to South Africa’s 50,000MW

[2] This government will increase the kilometres of tarred roads from the current 200,000km to South Africa’s 750,000km

[3] Between now and when we leave office, we will increase the length of our railway network from the current 4,000km to Pakistan’s 8,000km

[4] By April 2022, we will increase our literacy rate from the current 60% to Brazil’s 91.7%

NIGERIA has been warned that she risks losing several key national assets to China in the event that the country defaults in paying back loans obtained from Chinese banks which is currently put at $3.48bn.

NIGERIA'S federal government has lifted the ban it placed on Emirates Airline flying into the country ending the year long spat with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that led to both nations imposing travel restrictions on each other.

ARMED gunmen have kidnapped the divisional police officer (DPO) in charge of Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State Ibrahim lshaq and are demanding a ransom fee of N50m ($122,000) from his family for his release.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria should have the world's largest Xmas tree plantation

[2] By now, we should have patented a special red ankara Father Christmas suit

[3] All of Africa's poor should get a special Xmas hamper with Nigerian palliatives

[4] By now, there should be a special Jollof Rice Christmas meal available in all the world's retail stores

[5] Why do we not have a special Xmas palm wine drink

ENGLISH Premier League side Arsenal are poised to conclude a contract with striker Henry Timi Davies involving his deal with the Gunners being automatically upgraded to a professional contract on his 17th birthday today

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] According to the African Development Bank, Nigeria has an annual infrastructural deficit of $100bn, yet our 2021 budget is a meagre $33bn. Basically, what this means is that the government needs to quadruple its budget to address our infrastructure crisis

CONTROVERSIAL cleric Sheikh Ahmed Gumi has thrown another cat among the pigeons by sending a medical outreach team to the forests of Kogi State to provide medical care to Fulani cattle herdsmen living there.

FORMER petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has lost a court case in which she challenged the confiscation of her jewellery said to be worth about $40m that was seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).