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Wolves offer Nigeria-eligible youngster Temple Ojinnaka his first professional contract

ENGLISH Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers has offered Nigeria-eligible defender Temple Ojinnaka a professional contract after he impressed the coaches in the club's academy.

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Has anyone ever sat down and considered how many jobs would be created across Nigeria if we initiated an ambitious power progamme? It would take millions of youths out of crime and religious bigotry

Ayo Akinfe

[1] A 10,000MW hydro-electric power plant at the confluence of the Rivers Niger and Benue in Lokoja

[2] An 830km coastal wind farm stretching from Badagry to Calabar

[3] A 5,000MW gas-fired plant in Bonny

[4] An Usman Dan Fodio Solar farm stretching across Zamfara, Kebbi and Sokoto states

[5] An El-Kanemi Solar Farm stretching across Borno and Yobe states

[6] A 2,000MW hydroelectric plant at Yola along the River Benue

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Ireland deports 35 Nigerians aboard chartered flight for breaching their immigration rules

IRELAND has deported 35 Nigerians including five children using a chartered flight from Dublin to fly them to Lagos for breaching immigration rules that made them illegal immigrants in the country.

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Nigeria's 37m Ndigbo are renown for their industrious nature that enables them to take retailing everywhere. I want to see someone of the calibre of Michael Okpara or Ukpabi Asika emerge and convert this energy into industrial output

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Do you know that Michael Okpara dedicated 45% of his annual budget to education when he was the premier of the old Eastern Region? MI Power as he was called had one mission and that was to catch up and overtake the Western region in terms of education

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Aribo wants to return to Glasgow Rangers following Southampton's relegation to the Championship

SUPER Eagles midfielder Joe Aribo is looking to leave his current club Southampton and return to Glasgow Rangers in Scotland following the Saints' relegation to the second tier of English football in the just-concluded campaign.

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If Nigerians genuinely want their country to become a better place they must be prepared to make the following sacrifices as the current economy cannot sustain their extravagance

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Private jets - A Gulfstream costs about $65m. Only the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has that kind of foreign exchange. If we want to progress, every penny needs to be saved for the purchase of much-needed industrial equipment. If we deplete the CBN’s reserves on things like private jets, then we have no moral right to complain when it has no dollars to buy refinery equipment or electricity turbines

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Nigerian Customs seizes about 60 private aircraft in Lagos and Abuja over unpaid import duties

NIGERIAN authorities have seized about 60 private jets across the country and sealed hangers at the Lagos and Abuja airports as part of a major clampdown on owners who are refusing to pay import duties on their aircraft.

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To end the scourge of terrorism in Nigeria, the federal government needs to come up with a lake Chad Basin Development Plan that will create some economic activity in an area riven with poverty

Ayo Akinfe

[1] First of all, the federal government needs to licence local vigilante groups in all 774 local government areas of the country to ensure uniformity. This way, they will all be signed up to uniform standards of operation. Those operating in the northeast will obvioulsly be the busiest and will have the largest budget

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Leeds United join the list of clubs eyeing Christantus during the summer transfer window

ENGLISH Premier League giants Leeds United are looking to sign Nigerian winger Christantus Uche during the forthcoming summer transfer window as part of an ambitious squad-building programme.

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With Nigeria's 2027 elections looming, once again, the debate is totally devoid of policy. It is about personalities and immediate needs like stomach infrastructure. We are the architects of our own misfortune

Ayo Akinfe

[1] One of my favourite quotes of all time is Henry Mattise’s “Every people get the government they deserve.” Ironically, Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria’s most visionary sage used that quote after the 1983 elections

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