Black Ladder

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Is there anything stopping Nigeria’s agriculture minister from launching a National Bitter Leaf Production Programme?

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As a people, we are yet to come to terms with the concept of agribusiness. I believe the day they we do, it will become the backbone of Nigerian manufacturing and the biggest source of government revenue

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Man United consider activating Ndidi's €9m release clause as Amorim looks to bolster his squad

SUPER Eagles midfielder Wilfred Ndidi could be on his way to Old Trafford soon as Manchester United are considering putting a bid for him following Leicester City's relegation and the subsequent need to offload their expensive players.

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World Bank predicts that Nigerian economy will grow by 3.6% this year despite Trump-induced trade war

WORLD Bank officials have projected that the Nigerian economy will grow by 3.6% during the course of 2025 despite an expected global slowdown as a result of trade tensions and higher tariffs precipitated by the actions of US President Donald Trump.

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Man has always managed to turn adversity into opportunity. I am thus perplexed as to how Nigeria has not used the herdsman crisis to turn the nation into the world's largest milk producer by 2030

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Anywhere else you go on planet earth, a crisis leads to the introduction of measure that turn the adversity into opportunity

[2] Just look at World War Two. After suffering severe shortages during the conflict, the Europeans introduced their Common Agriculture Policy. This led to the biggest food glut ever seen

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Forest activate Ola Aina's contract extenson iin bid to keep him for the forthcoming season

ENGLISH Premier League giants Nottingham Forest have activated the one-year extension of Super Eagles fullback  Ola Aina’s contract effectively ending any interest in Manchester City securing his services during the summer transfer window.

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It is time Nigerians latch on to Martin Luther King’s theory of the fierce urgency of now before the gulf between us and the major developing economies gets too wide to bridge

Ayo Akinfe

[1] On December 22 1956, American newspapers were full of pictures of Dr Martin Luther King riding on a mixed bus with white folks after the Alabama Bus Boycott has been called off a day earlier. Dr King was the first person to ride on non-segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama on December 21 1956 to make the point that victory had been won

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Maryam Abacha claims money her husband left behind vanished immediately after his death

GENERAL Sani Abacha's widow Maryam has thrown fresh light on the corrupt environment that engulfed the nation following her husband's death pointing out that millions of dollars he left behind went missing immediately after his demise.

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I am still wracking my brains trying to figure out how Nigeria can replicate the 20% GDP growth rates we enjoyed in the early 1970s

Ayo Akinfe

[1] How many Nigerians know that the Gowon regime was getting an average GDP growth rate of about 20% They did it by adopting a simple formula of gathering the best brains around them. They had a National Economic Council (NEC) which Gowon chaired and Obafemi Awolowo served as its vice chairman

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