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US immigration firm organises Lagos banquet to educate potential migrants on opportunities

AMERICAN immigration technology firm Immigify has announced plans to host a high-profile banquet in Lagos aimed at connecting Nigerian professionals with premium emigration opportunities that would facilitate easy travel and relocation.

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US warns that Islamist terrorists are seeking access to West Africa's coast to facilitate arms smuggling

ISLAMIST terrorists are increasingly targeting Nigeria as potential base to capture because they want access to her coastline to facilitate the easy shipment of weapons into West Africa according to the United States Africa Command.

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US warns that Islamist terrorists are seeking access to West Africa's coast to facilitate arms smuggling

ISLAMIST terrorists are increasingly targeting Nigeria as potential base to capture because they want access to her coastline to facilitate the easy shipment of weapons into West Africa according to the United States Africa Command.

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Returning to this matter of localised development, is there anything stopping Nigeria's five Igbo governors from coming up with a South East Industrial Development Plan that looks like this

Ayo Akinfe

[1] We are going to make Aba the fashion manufacturing capital of the world. All tailors in southeast Nigeria must be offered access to interest-free loans from the Nigerian Bank of Industry to enable them expand their businesses

[2] All the five states of the southeast geo-political zone will join forces to float a finance house called Ogbunigwe Bank. It will hand out loans to small businesses with a maximum interest rate of 5%.

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Adesina promises to keep n fighting for Africa despite standing down as AfDB president

NIGERIA'S Akinwunmi Adesina has promised to continue serving Africa with all his might despite standing down as the chairman of the African Development Bank (AfDB) after 10 at the helm and handing over to Mauritanian Sidi Ould Tah.

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Is anything preventing the governors of the seven northwestern states from launching the word's most ambitious sorghum production programme that will make Nigeria the world's number one producer?

Ayo Akinfe

[1] If you ask me, nothing has enthroned poverty in Nigeria like the wholesale dependence on crude oil. When you are dependent on one primary commodity for your survival, you are asking for the bony hand of hunger to come and decimate you.

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West Ham look to recruit Super Eagles midfielder Onyedika during summer transfer window

ENGLISH Premier League side West Ham have stepped up the pursuit of Super eagles midfielder Raphael Onyedika with a view to purchasing him from Belgian's Club Brugge during the forthcoming summer transfer window.

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Even if you had zero corruption in Nigeria, our current economic model under which we consume substantially more than we produce is a recipe for perpetual poverty

Ayo Akinfe

[1] No matter how you look at it, we negroid people will continue to suffer prejudice and bias until we have an African economy that sits at the high table of humanity

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Musa leaves Unity Cup camp ahead of tomorrow's finals and returns home for personal reasons

VETERAN Super Eagles striker Ahmed Musa has left the team's Unity Cup camp in London ahead of tomorrow's final against Jamaica and returned to Nigeria to attend to personal matters.

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Still on this matter of adopting regional developmental programmes, is there anything preventing the Arewa Consultative Forum from sending a Northern Nigerian Economic Development Bill that looks like this to the National Assembly

Ayo Akinfe

[1] By 2030, every one of our 19-member states must generate enough revenue to at least meets its running costs

[2] Every state in northern Nigeria must be twinned with a state in the south as part of our education policy. By 2030, every northern state must match its southern twin in terms of literacy, secondary school leavers, graduates and post-graduates

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