FORMER senate president Senator Ken Nnamani has become the latest candidate to withdraw from the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential race saying the way the contest is going does not give him the space to outline his vision for the country.

NIGERIA'S Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) is expecting to present the proposed national carrier Nigeria Air with its Air Transport Licence (ATL) later today in a development that will make the airline a legal entity.

NIGERIA'S ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been thrown into turmoil after party chairman Senator Abdullahi Adamu unilaterally declared that senate president Senator Ahmad Lawan was the party's consensus presidential candidate.

FORMER Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes has advised his old club to sign Super eagles midfielder Wilfred Ndidi during the summer transfer window if they are serious about becoming title contenders again.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Start manufacturing all our armaments locally so our security forces have the required equipment

[2] Effectively police our borders to curtail the influx of ammunition from neighbouring countuies

[3) Establish a special forces commando unit similar to say the British SAS or the US Navy Seals

[4] Build more factories, leisure and sports facilities so our youth stop congregating in mosques and churches where they get indoctrinated

Ayo Akinfe

[1] The capacity to produce at least 5m tonnes of steel annually

[2] A machine tool manufacturing capability

[3] A double gauge railway network that linked up all her 40 provinces and could run at a speed of 120km per hour

[4] A 25% literacy rate

[5] A hydro-electric power capability to generate at least 5,000MW per year

[6] At least one technical vocation college in every one of our 40 provinces

NIGERIAN centreback Leon Balogun has left Scottish champions Glasgow Rangers today following the expiration of his contract with the side and is on the lookout for a new club ahead of the new season.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] At the moment, Nigeria is the UK’s fastest growing export market. We want to see this grow dramatically with an annual foreign direct investment (FDI) target of $1bn for British investors in Nigeria?

NIGERIAN diasporans in the US have lamented the Super Eagles' 0-1 loss to Ecuador in New Jersey yesterday saying suffering two defeats on the bounce within a week is a very demoralising development.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] I have always regarded the 1851 capture of Lagos as the date when the British colonisation of Nigeria began. That was the year when John Beecroft the British consul of the Bights of Benin and Biafra, lined up his naval gunboats off the coast of Lagos and forced Oba Akintoye to sign a treaty of protection handing over the city to Britain