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Ayo Akinfe

[1] Given that there are 200m Nigerians with about 50% of them being 18 and over, we should have a 20 year plan to build 40m housing units over the next 20 years

[2] Of these 40m, the federal government should build 10m of them in Abuja and Lagos

[3] We need a law that compels all 36 state governments to build houses as a matter of law

[4] Each state must be obliged to build at least 10,000 housing units a year

SECESSIONIST group the Biafra Nations League (BNL) has warned the inspector-general of police Alkali Baba that if his men carry out the shoot-at-sight order he instructed them to their members will resort with fullscale violence.

VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo is to mediate in an ongoing dispute between the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over the repayment plan for bailout loans.

GOVERNORS from across the southeast geo-political zone have promised to address the ongoing restiveness in their region within the next six months by coming up with solutions to the plight of their youths who have resorted to violence of late.

NIGERIA'S newly-introduced restrictions aimed at preventing a fresh outbreak of the Covid-19 virus has hit the air passengers hard leading to travellers having to spend the night at airports as a result of a curfew which restricts movement.

HERDSMEN umbrella body the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) has backed the recent declaration by the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) calling for a ban on open grazing across the country.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Disarmament centres shall be opened in every single one of our 774 local government areas where illegal weapons can be handed in without prosecution under a 30- day amnesty programme. Disarmament centres will also be opened at six mega cattle ranches established across the country

NIGERIA'S long-planned new national carrier first mooted in 2018 at Farnborough Air Show in the UK is now due to begin operations in the first quarter of 2022 according to aviation minister Hadi Sirika.

GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has lashed out at the attorney-general of the federation Abubakar Malami for comparing the ban on open grazing by southern governors to banning all spare parts trading across northern Nigeria.

GOVERNOR Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers State has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in a surprise move which he attributed to how impressed he is with the performance of President Muhammadu Buhari.