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As Nigeria contemplates implementing Prof Osinbajo’s public works programme here are kilometres of tarred road figures targets we should aspire to meet. Nigeria is seriously lagging behind other developing nations African News

As Nigeria contemplates implementing Prof Osinbajo’s public works programme here are kilometres of tarred road figures targets we should aspire to meet. Nigeria is seriously lagging behind other developing nations

Ayo Akinfe (1) India - 5.9m km (2) Brazil - 1.75m km (3) South Africa - 750,000 km (4) Thailand - 702,210 km (5) Indonesia - 542,310 km (6) Turkey - 445,000 km (7) Mexico - 393,473 km (8) Iran - 291,014 km (9) Pakistan - 263,942 km (10) Nigeria - 193,200 km We have our work cut out as neither our road nor...
Nigeria needs to hold an emergency Covid-19 economic summit to address these 10 embarrassing realities African News

Nigeria needs to hold an emergency Covid-19 economic summit to address these 10 embarrassing realities

Ayo Akinfe (1) We have a 2021 budget of $33bn but are planning to borrow at least $14bn to fund it (2) We are poised to spend $7.8bn importing used cars and motorcycles in 2021 (3) We have no plans whatsoever to join the rest of the human race in looking for a remedy to this virus. Has it occurred to us that if Nigeria developed...
I cannot see anything other than a radical public works programme soaking up Nigeria's 22m unemployed youths African News

I cannot see anything other than a radical public works programme soaking up Nigeria's 22m unemployed youths

Ayo Akinfe Nigeria currently has about 21.7m unemployed people, 10.5m out-of-school children, about 3m internal refugees and 90m people living below the UN acknowledged poverty of surviving on less than $2 a day. With the economic shutdown precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic, things can only get worse during the course of 2021 ...
I hope President Buhari has spoken with Wale Adeyemo about attracting US foreign direct investment in 2021 African News

I hope President Buhari has spoken with Wale Adeyemo about attracting US foreign direct investment in 2021

Ayo Akinfe (1) In 2019, US foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide totalled $5.96trn (2) Within the US itself, FDI during that period totalled $246bn, with about $125bn of this coming from Japan (3) Every industrialised nation worldwide takes FDI very seriously because it opens up new markets for their goods, creates ancillary...
Spain may have just done Nigeria a big favour by handing us Joachim Lowe for free as a replacement for Gernot Rohr African News

Spain may have just done Nigeria a big favour by handing us Joachim Lowe for free as a replacement for Gernot Rohr

Ayo Akinfe After last night's 6-0 thrashing, there is simply no way Joachim Lowe can stay on as Germany's head coach One could argue that Lowe is Germany's mist successful manager ever, winning the World Cup in Brazil in spectacular fashion in 2014, including that 7-1 demolition of the home team in front of their fans In...
Jo Bonfere was sacked after losing in Freetown and I think it is only fair that Gernot Rohr suffers the same fate if the Eagles lose in Sierra Leone on Tuesday. Yesterday’s game proves that Rohr’s best days are behind him African News

Jo Bonfere was sacked after losing in Freetown and I think it is only fair that Gernot Rohr suffers the same fate if the Eagles lose in Sierra Leone on Tuesday. Yesterday’s game proves that Rohr’s best days are behind him

Ayo Akinfe (1) Unlike many Eagles fans, I am not actually surprised our boys surrendered a four goal lead yesterday against Sierra Leone. Recent draws against Ukraine, Brazil and Tunisia have shown that this team is incapable of game management (2) It is standard convention that when you are in the lead and in control of a match,...
Zainab Ahmed asks National Assembly to approve government request for $1.2bn loan from Brazil African News

Zainab Ahmed asks National Assembly to approve government request for $1.2bn loan from Brazil

NIGERIA's federal government is seeking the approval of the National Assembly for  a $1.2bn loan from Brazil to finance its proposed agricultural programmes contained in the 2021 budget.   In August, President Muhammadu Buhari presented Nigeria's most ambitious budget ever to the National Assembly when he unveiled a...
10 other matters that are angering our youth which also need to be addressed with the same seriousness as police brutality Politics

10 other matters that are angering our youth which also need to be addressed with the same seriousness as police brutality

Ayo Akinfe (1) The jumbo pay packages of our lawmakers are an affront to any decent society (2) The impunity with which corrupt people are running the country. Orji Uzor Kalu was convicted of fraud by a court but remains a senator, while Abdullahi Ganduje was caught red handed receiving bribes yet remains a governor (3) This...
Nigeria is the only African country barred from participating in US 2022 visa lottery programme Business

Nigeria is the only African country barred from participating in US 2022 visa lottery programme

NIGERIANS have been barred from participating in the US visa lottery programme in 2022 as part of the ongoing imposition of restrictions on the country's citizens in what is feared may be a response to growing insecurity and other threats to life and property.   In January this year, the US said it would suspend the issuance...
I would adopt this as the Super Eagles permanent strip so we have an iconic jersey recognisable anywhere News

I would adopt this as the Super Eagles permanent strip so we have an iconic jersey recognisable anywhere

Ayo Akinfe I would adopt this as the Super Eagles permanent strip so we have an iconic jersey recognisable anywhere. Here are 10 countries whose strips you would immediately recognise anywhere on planet earth whenever they take to the pitch: (1) Croatia (2) Brazil (3) Argentina (4) Netherlands (5) England (6) Spain (7)...
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