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Ayo Akinfe

(1) Nigeria currently spends $8bn a year out of her paltry $28bn annual budget subsidising petrol marketers. As a nation we simply cannot afford this. One does not need to be genius to know this wasteful spending has to go

(2) Most Nigerians are rightly scared about the inflationary impact the subsidy will have, so I believe these fears can be negated if the cash is used to fund infrastructural development that will improve their lives in other areas

INDIGENOUS People f Biafra (Ipob) leaders have warned the five governors of the southeast geo-political zone and the pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo that they will live to regret their role in its proscription by the federal government.

VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo has assured Nigerian traders in Ghana that they would get justice as the negotiations between the two countries to reverse the $1m levy placed on them by the Ghanaian authorities continues.

WASHINGTON has said it is re-evaluating its ban on some categories of migrant visas for Nigerians having been satisfied with the country’s level of compliance with information sharing and other concerns.

ZAMFARA law firm Abubakar A Ashat & Co has volunteered to assist the Kano State government in prosecuting and ensuring its gets Yahaya Sharif-Aminu convicted and executed for producing a song deemed blasphemous against Prophet Mohammed.

EVERTON fans have asked their manager Carlo Ancelotti to sell Super Eagles playmaker Alex Iwobi as part of a rebuilding plan centred around the sale of players surplus to requirements and using the proceeds to bring in fresh faces.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Mud huts
(2) Open pit latrines
(3) Barefoot children
(4) Street beggars
(5) People wearing rags
(6) Children not attending at least primary school
(7) People living in cardboard boxes
(8) Prostitution
(9) A local government not having a general hospital
(10) Villages being cut off from the rest of the world during the rainy season

We need to pass laws making all these illegal. Then, we need a concerted development plan to eliminate them.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Mud huts
(2) Open pit latrines
(3) Barefoot children
(4) Street beggars
(5) People wearing rags
(6) Children not attending at least primary school
(7) People living in cardboard boxes
(8) Prostitution
(9) A local government not having a general hospital
(10) Villages being cut off from the rest of the world during the rainy season

NIGERIAN labour leaders have issued a two-week ultimatum to the federal government to reverse the recent hikes in electricity tariffs and fuel pump prices or face the prospect of nationwide industrial action.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled Nigeria's diamond jubilee logo that will be used to celebrate the nation turning 60 on October 1 with a warning however that the celebrations will be low-key die to the coronavirus pandemic.