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10 industrial goods Nigeria needs to mass manufacture if we are serious about creating 10m new jobs and lifting 80m people out of poverty

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[1] Railway carriages
[2] Steel rods
[3] Electricity transformers
[4] Mobile phones
[5] Electric cars
[6] iPads
[7] Farming tractors
[8] Power turbines
[9] Gucci and Lui Vitton handbags
[10] Microphones and loudspeakers

BRITISH health authorities will keep all holiday travel to Nigeria restricted when it eases restrictions on May 17 because the country remains on its list of amber alert nations not making the green list which offers the all-clear.

NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials have commenced talks with the Cameroonian and Senegalese football associations about the prospect of the Super Eagles playing friendlies against them during the two June Fifa windows.

FORMER two-time mayor of Enfield Councillor Kate Anolue has secured another major electoral victory after her daughter Chinelo Anyawu emerged the winner in a recent by-election that will now result in her sitting alongside her mother in the council chamber.

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WASHINGTON has rejected Nigeria's proposals to relocate its Africa Command (Africom) from its current base in Germany to a part of the African continent despite the worsening state of insecurity in the region.

SUPER Eagles striker Kelechi Iheanacho has once again been nominated for the English Premier League Player of The Month award for April in recognition of his scintillating form that saw him score another goal last night.

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[1] Insecurity and a breakdown of law and order 
[2] Unemployment 
[3] Ethnic mistrust 
[4] Over-dependence on one commodity for survival 
[5] Inadequate power supply 
[6] Over-centralisation of authority which fuels sycophancy 
[7] Under-investment in our economy 
[8] Poor transportation links 
[9] Woeful healthcare facilities 
[10] Our get-rich quick mentality which fuels corruption

CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) officials have indefinitely extended the popular naira-for-dollar incentive programme recently introduced in a bid to encourage diasporans to increase the volume of their remittances.

NIGER State government has banned all forms of horse riding during and immediately after the forthcoming of Ed-el-fitri festivities as part of a move to forestall any acts of terrorism and violence during the festival to mark the end of the Ramadan fasting month.