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Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Nigeria's economic and human development indicators will be compared annually with those of other Mint nations like Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey and Brics nations like Brazil, India, Russia, China and South Africa, to ensure we never fall behind. If we have a gross domestic product of say $5trn, we will not be the subjects of ridicule we currently are

EMBATTLED communications minister Sheikh Isa Pantami has defied critics calling on him to resign after he was listed on the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) terrorist watchlist and turned up at today's Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja.

ENUGU State has become the latest victim of the growing insecurity sweeping across the southeast geo-political zone after armed gunmen attacked the Divisional Police Headquarters at Adani in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of the state and carted away weapons.

MEN of the Ekiti State chapter of the Amotekun Corps have freed the traditional ruler the Obadu of Ilemeso Ekiti Oba David Oyewumi  and arrested six of his kidnappers after mounting a daring raid on their hideout in Kwara State.

BRITAIN has adjusted its asylum rules on Nigeria recognising that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) and other secessionist groups are facing persecution from the federal government and is now offering them political asylum visas.

SUPER Eagles striker Kelechi Iheanacho has ruled our returning to his former club Manchester City at the end of the season as a replacement for Argentine Sergio Aguero pointing out that he is happy at Leicester City.

Ayo Akinfe 

(1) As the former Chadian president was Boko Haram’s most formidable adversary, the vacuum needs to be filled with an intensified military presence in the Lake Chad Basin or we will end up with another Afghanistan on our hands. I await a Blitzkreig operation over the next few weeks 

(2) I think it is time to expand the Lake Chad Basin Force into a fully fledged Ecomog Army of about 20,000 men 

NIGERIA'S federal government has appeared before a British high court to decide certain procedural issues relating to the  ongoing challenge against the enforcement of a $10bn arbitration award obtained by Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID).

MEMBERS of a local councillor's family in Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State have beaten up the Catholic priest in charge of St Mary’s Catholic Church in Nkomoro after a bitter altercation over an attack on a cassava farm.

KATSINA State has recorded an impressive79% vaccination rate after the first phase of the implementation of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign with an overwhelming majority of the state's residents expressing confidence in the programme.