ENGLISH Premier league giants Arsenal have stepped up their monitoring of Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen in the hope that they may still be able to sign him at the end of the current season.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As the years go by, the number of barrels of crude oil Nigeria cannot sell is growing by the day. We are not alone in this as every other Opec nation is facing a similar problem. Supply and demand fundamentals are a reality, so fossil fuel prices are eventually going to come down to near zero

NIGERIA-eligible centreback Tosin Adarabioyo has shunned overtures from rival English Premier league clubsides and pledged to remain at Chelsea for the remainder of the season and fight for a place rather than make a move during the January transfer window.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Low productivity, the obsession with getting rich and religious fundamentalism remain our three biggest challenges as a nation

[2] Solve these three and watch our other problems like corruption, nepotism, a lack of patriotism and ethnicity disappear

FORMER Chelsea striker Oladapo Afolayan has revealed that he is looking forward to breaking into the Super Eagles squad ahead of the 2026 World Cup as he opts for Nigeria ahead of his country of birth at international level.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] On August 30 1894, British explorer Frederick Lugard began his expedition of the Niger which led to the eventual creation of the nation state called Nigeria. In just 20 years, Lugard had captured nearly 1m square kilometres, subduing about 20m people from 250 different ethnic groups. He created the biggest and most lucrative British colony south of the Sahara to the envy of the Germans and French

NIGERIA-eligible teenage striker Nicholas Okosun has just signed a four-and-a-half-year deal with English Championship club Watford that will keep him at the Hornets until 2029 with the option of extending his stay further.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] A database must be drawn up to determine what are luxury goods. This will include designer clothing, jewellery, automobiles, footwear and fashion accessories. All such items will be subject to a 20% luxury goods tax at the point of purchase

[2] All private jets will be subject to an annual tax worth 40% of their value

NIGERIAN diasporans in the UK are going to get the added benefit of discounted rice in the run-up to Christmas as Golden Sella will be offering them subsidised 5kg bags of rice at this year's gala dinner taking place on December 14.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria currently has a chronic almajiri problem and nobody appears to have come up with a solution to the problem so far. How do we absorb these kids back into society?

[2] According to Unicef, there are 9.5m almajiris in Nigeria. Street urchins with no hope whatsoever who will either end up as beggars, criminals or at worst terrorists