Let us use Democracy Day to present this document called Nigeria’s Declaration of Economic Independence

Ayo Akinfe

Today is June 12, Nigeria's Democracy Day, so I am going to use the occasion to present a document to Nigeria's leading presidential candidates. . On June 7 in 1776, Richard Lee from Virginia moved the US Declaration of Independence in Congress. How about someone moves our Declaration of Economic Independence in the National Assembly on Monday and it gets adopted into law?

Here are the kind of things I would like to see in this document:

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Christian Association of Nigeria warns Tinubu and Atiku not to dare pick Muslim running mates

CHRISTIAN Association of Nigeria (Can) officials have warned Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to both refrain from picking Muslim running mates in the run-up to the 2023 presidential elections.

 

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Ohaneze youth council blames southeast governors for the poor showing of Igbos in APC and PDP primaries

PAN-Igbo socio-cultural group Ohanaeze Ndigbo's youth wing has lambasted the five governors of the southeast geo-political zone over the woeful showing of Igbo candidates in the recent presidential primaries of Nigeria's two leading political parties.

 

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Leicester City offer Nigerian-born goalkeeper Chituru Odunze new contract to retain him

LEICESTER City have offered Nigerian-born teenage goalkeeper Chituru Odunze a new long-term contract ahead of the expiration of his current deal which expires on June 30 in the hope of getting him to commit his long-term future to the club.

 

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Is there anything stopping civil society groups from coming together and drawing up a developmental blueprint which we can then mandate all presidential candidates to sign in the run-up to 2023?

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Now that the presidential primaries are over, I think it is time to discuss this matter of economic growth. Nigeria is forecast to have a mere 2% gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate over the coming years, which is wholly inadequate

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Ondo State high courts sentences three men to death for killing Afenifere leader Pa Fasoranti's daughter

THREE men have been sentenced to death by hanging or firing squad by an Ondo State High Court after they were found guilty of the murder of Mrs Funke Olakunri the daughter of Afenifere leader Pa Reuben Fasoranti three years ago.

 

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UK Home Office offers £1m to NDLEA with promise of further funding over the next three years

BRITAIN has agreed to provide £1m worth of funding support to Nigeria's National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in 2022 with additional funding over the next three years as part of a programme to assist the body in its fight against narcotics.

 

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Afenifere leader says Owo attack would have been averted if Amotekun were armed

AFENIFERE leader Chief Ayo Adebanjo has called for members of the Amotekun Security Corps to be well armed ion the future pointing that it they were, the recent Owo massacre in which about 40 people were slaughtered in a church would have been averted.

 

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Inec gives parties up until June 17 to submit the names of their candidates and running mates

NIGERIA'S Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) has given all of the country's 18 registered political parties eight days to submit the names of their running mates following the recent conclusion of the presidential primaries.

 

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Osimhen closes in on Kanu and Okocha's scoring record as Super Eagles labour to beat lowly Sierra Leone

SUPER Eagles striker Victor Osimhen is closing in on the scoring tally of the likes of Nwankwo Kanu and Austin Okocha after scoring his 11th international goal yesterday in Nigeria's laboured 2-1 victory over the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone.

 

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