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HUMAN rights pressure group the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (Serap) has filed a lawsuit against the leaders of the National Assembly over their failure to publish reports of all completed public hearings and corruption probes since 1999.

LAWYERS opposed to the recent actions of the attorney-general of the federation Abubakar Malami has launched a petition asking that he be stripped of the title senior advocate of Nigeria (San) for his recent breaches of legal ethical codes.

NIGERIA has received a minor and temporary economic respite as global crude oil prices rallied slightly today due to an approaching tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico that has prompted drillers to evacuate rigs and shut-in production.

DOMESTIC flights have been disrupted across Nigeria as aviation unions have embarked upon a strike to protest the owing of five month salary arrears to staff of Arik Air that was taken over by the federal government in 2017.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Wrist watches
(2) Mobile phones
(3) Laptop computers
(4) iPads
(5) Plasma Television sets
(6) Fridge-freezers
(7) Handbags
(8) Irons
(9) Generator sets
(10) Bicycles

I do not think it is asking too much for us as a nation to produce 50m units of each of these items annually. No doubt there are a lot of prototypes out there but alas, how do we get from prototype to mass production?

NIGERIAN-born media mogul Pearlena Igbokwe has been names as the chairman of US entertainment and information giants the Universal Studio Group making her the first African woman to head a major American television studio.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Cotton production will be expanded to match Pakistan’s 2.3m tonnes through the provision of single digit loans and hybrid seedlings to farmers. Nigeria currently produces only 105,000 tonnes which is not enough to sustain a local manufacturing industry

(2) A Nigerian Tailors Guild will be formed as part of a regulatory regime. Only registered members will be authorised to sew clothes for members of the public

LIVERPOOL manager Jurgen Klopp has opted against sending Nigerian striker Taiwo Awoniyi out on loan over the forthcoming season retaining him as a member of his squad for the current campaign for now.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) One thing that makes my heart bleed is the fact that as a continent, Africa has very little man-made infrastructure to show the rest of the world. All we really have are the pyramids of Egypt

(2) At a time when the rest of the world is building the fastest, tallest and biggest of everything, we are fast asleep. In the case of Nigeria, one of the main reasons for this is because we are too dependent on the federal government for everything

PROFESOR Florence Obi of the Faculty of Education has become the first ever female vice chancellor of the University of Calabar after she was appointed to the position following the end of the screening of 12 candidates for the job.