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[1] Coconuts is another agricultural crop that should easily be another big money spinner. If we’ll harnessed, the sector could match the $50bn or so we generate from crude oil sales 

[2] Nigeria is currently the world’s number 18 coconut producer with a disappointing output of 288,615 tonnes. Badagry Local Government Area alone could easily double that figure within four years if it wanted to

EIGHT Customs officers have been dismissed by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) with a further 18 disciplined for acts seen as prejudicial to the agency as part of an ongoing crackdown on extortion by its personnel.

FORMER deputy senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu currently detained in the UK as he faces human trafficking charges is facing more woes as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is looking to seize 40 properties his allegedly acquired illegally.

GERMAN-born Nigeria-eligible goalkeeper Noah Atubolu could end up facing Manchester United or Arsenal in the Europa League later on this season after he made his debut in the competition for his German club Freiburg on Thursday.

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Poverty of thinking 
[2] Blatant incompetence 
[3] Corruption
[4] Lack of sincerity of purpose 
[5] Overzealous religious thinking 
[6] Primordial ethnic thoughts 
[7] An inability to envisage the future 
[8] A lack of personal discipline 
[9] Blatant vanity 
[10] Intellectual laziness

MIDDLE Eastern carrier Emirates Airlines has announced the suspension of all flights to and from Nigeria blaming the decision on its inability to repatriate its revenue from the country as a result on the ongoing financial crisis.

FORMER vice president and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidates Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has said he is no longer bothered about the leadership crisis involving Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his group as they will move on without them.

ARSENAL manager Mikel Arteta has admitted it is inevitable that he will one day be sacked because the very nature of football is that the club's flying start to the season cannot last forever and it is only matter of time before the bubble bursts.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] First of all the Federal Inland Revenue Service (Firs) should set an income tax revenue target of $50bn by 2030. At the moment, Nigerians are grossly under-taxed. Our tax-to-GDP ratio of just 6% is among the lowest in the world 

[2] Firs boss Muhammad Nami, should forward proposals to the National Assembly introducing a regime whereby no public official will receive more than four times the national minimum wage

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Popularly known as dogonyaro, neem is widely grown across northern Nigeria where it is put to several uses. It is time to tap into this potential goldmine

[2] Nigeria is the world’s second largest neem producer behind India but you can be guaranteed we are not taking advantage of the crop as they are. India has a thriving pharmaceutical industry centred around the crop generating millions in foreign exchange earnings