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FORMER Super Eagles striker Odion Ighalo looks set to play his final match for Manchester United today as manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is poised to field him against his former club Watford in an FA Cup match that would be his swansong before returning to China.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Everywhere else on earth, people are having to adapt to the changes Covid-19 has imposed on us. Just look at how Zoom has taken off as a social media platform. Nigeria has got to learn to adjust just like everyone else worldwide 

US House of Representatives speaker Hon Nancy Pelosi has written to members of Congress telling them that she has asked the chairman of the joint chief of staff to strip President Donald Trump of access to nuclear codes as he might launch strikes within a week.

BRITAIN has imposed a blanker travel ban on 11 African nations as part of its war against the coronavirus pandemic amid fears that these countries risk importing the dreaded South African strain of the virus.

OVER 3,000 small and medium scale businesses in Kebbi State are to receive millions of naira from the federal government as grants under a post-coronavirus stimulus plan aimed at enhancing their business activities.

NIGERIA'S federal government has directed the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (Nerc) to suspend the recently adjusted electricity tariff in response to a national outrage over the recent decision to hike them.

NIGERIAN sculpture Yinka Shonibare has been commissioned by the David Oluwale Memorial Association (Doma) to honour his life with a new giant sculpture to be erected in the Leeds city centre.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Open an agricultural equipment plant that will manufacture 10,000 tractors a year

(2) Open a hydroelectric plant that will generate 2,000MW of electricity

(3) Get one of the US automobile giants to open an assembly plant in Nigeria

(4) Get a US pharmaceutical giant to open a factory that manufactures the Covid-19 vaccine in Nigeria

(5) You open a food processing plant that processes our cocoa into chocolate

Ayo Akinfe

(1) We are all still reeling from the high drama of yesterday when Trump supporters tried to stage a coup by taking over the US Congress. I actually like the fact that I am alive to witness these once-in-a-lifetime events which we will most likely never see again

BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson has broken ranks with his key ally President Donald Trump and condemned the invasion of the US Congress by his supporters describing the action as a disgraceful attack on democracy.