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Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission believes $8.4bn was invested during first quarter of 2021

NIGERIAN Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) officials are optimistic that a total of $8.41bn was invested into the economy during the first quarter of the year in a move that will eventually create jobs and reduce unemployment.

 

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Ipob declares May 31 as Biafra day during which a sit-at-home protest will take place

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (Ipob) has announced that May 31 will be recognised as Biafra Day during which there will be a sit-at-home protest across the southeast and south-south geo-political zones.

 

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to continue its work in Nigeria despite their divorce

WORK being carried out by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Nigeria to eradicate diseases like polio will continue unabated despite the recent announcement by the couple that they are to divorce after 27 years of marriage.

 

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NFF write to Fifa protesting the delay in approving Ademola Lookman's switch to Nigeria

NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials have written to global football body Fifa protesting over the lengthy delay in approving the switch of Fulham star Ademola Lookman that will enable him to play for the Super Eagles.

 

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Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka warns that heaven will fall on anyone who attacks him

CONTROVERSIAL clergyman Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka has hit back at critics lambasting him for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari over Nigeria's growing insecurity warning that the anger of heaven will descend on those attacking him.

 

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As I predicted, the US and other industrial economies are embarking on an unprecedented post-coronavirus spending spree on a par with war reconstruction. Nigeria needs to announce similar plans

Ayo Akinfe

[1] President Joe Biden is about to embark on a $2.3trn spending spree in what is being dubbed as the modern equivalent of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. It is designed to create millions of jobs, rebuild national infrastructure and position the US to out-compete China

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Obasanjo pushes for an Adesina presidency in 2023 with either Tambuwal or Kwankwaso as a running mate

FORMER president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has mooted fielding the current head of the African Development bank (AfDB) Dr Akinwumi Adesina as presidential candidate in the 2023 Nigerian elections.

 

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Contract with Nigeria: 2023 election manifesto

Ayo Akinfe

I will say thank you to all of you wonderful people for all the unbelievable birthday messages I received yesterday by launching a 2023 election manifesto. You guys all want Nigeria to be a better place, so here is a programme to lift our dear nation out of poverty

Let us all hope one of the candidates can pick this up and run with it. If someone does, between 2023 and 2030, we should enjoy significant economic growth:

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Man United, Real Madrid and PSG all eye Wilfred Ndidi as the summer transfer window looms

SUPER Eagles midfielder Wilfred Ndidi has become the renewed subject of transfer speculation with Manchester United and Real Madrid leading the race to sign him during the forthcoming summer transfer window.

 

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On May 2 1945, the Red Army’s guns fell silent outside the German Chancellery bringing about an end to World War Two. I want Nigerians to look at how Germany miraculously rebuilt itself from total ruins within a decade and seek to do likewise

 


Ayo Akinfe 

(1) By 1954, just nine years later, West Germany actuality won the Fifa World Cup

(2) Most shockingly, Germany managed to develop herself into the world’s third largest economy behind the US and Japan 
(3) The German Volkswagen Beetle became the world’s most successful automobile 

(4) At the founding of the European Common Market in 1957 West Germany's economic growth stood in contrast to the struggling conditions at the time in the UK 

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