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NIGERIA'S food import bill during the first nine months of 2021 totalled $1.68bn according to data just released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as limited processing facilities led to the widespread importation of several items.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] The largest black nation on earth with a population in excess of 200m

[2] Africa’s largest economy with a gross domestic product (GDP) estimated to total $514bn in 2021 by the IMF

[3] Estimated to become the third most populous country in the world by 2050 behind China and India

[4] The one nation that can rally the 1.2m people who inhabit the African continent

[5] The world’s sixth largest agricultural producer

GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State has reiterated his call for President Muhammadu Buhari to declare all Fulani socio-cultural organisations including the , Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) as terrorists.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As part of its preparations for the 2022 World Cup, Qatar has built the world's first mobile stadium that can can be dismantled and transported anywhere

[2] I sincerely hope that the giant of Africa Nigeria is on the ground watching developments, as we will be needing this technology desperately in the future. It may be the solution to many of our continent's infrastructural woes

NORTHERN pan-cultural group the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has condemned the recent actions of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) in banning the singing of the Nigerian national anthem across the southeast and restricting livestock imports as acts of war.

PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Femi Adesina has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari will not allow himself to be intimidated by clergymen and their prophecies as happened to General Sani Abacha when he was in Aso Rock.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Borno - Elephants

[2] Katsina - Giraffes

[3] Zamfara - Zebra

[4] Yobe - Lions

[5] Oyo - Leopards

[6] Sokoto - Cheetahs

[7] Niger - Hippopotamus

[8] Kaduna - Rhinoceros

[9] Taraba - Gorillas

[10] Adamawa - Buffalo

I find it perplexing that Nigeria has no wildlife sanctuaries. We need dedicated areas that are off limits to humans where animals can thrive.

SHARE prices escalated on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) yesterday as the arrival of newly admitted player BUA Foods gave trading a huge bounce allowing stocks to rise to a one year high.

NIGERIAN Catholic nurse Mary Onuoha has won a landmark victory at an employment tribunal receiving a favourable ruling that she was unfairly dismissed from her job at the Croydon University Hospital for wearing a cross.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has dismissed suggestions that he should grant a presidential amnesty to Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu saying it would be tantamount to him interfering with the judicial process.