Ayo Akinfe
(1) Nigeria is offering 99 year leases and three year tax holidays to any international investor who comes and invests in her cattle industry. Foreign investors are needed in the animal feed production, leather processing, milk production and ranch maintenance sectors
(2) Nigeria wants to expand her cattle population to...
FINANCIAL house Ecobank Nigeria has listed its $300 senior unsecured bond on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) as part of an ambitious move to increase liquidity and attract more international shareholders.
Floated in 1985 by bankers and the governments of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) member states,...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) Today is February 5 and for me it is significant in that it was on this day in 1945 that America’s General Douglas MacArthur returned to Manila after the US recaptured the Philippines from Japan. By February 1945, it was clear that the Allies were going to win the war both in Europe and Asia. Thinking ahead, they...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) For starters, the United Nations average policemen to citizens is 300 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants. In Nigeria, the figure is a dismal 300 policemen to 350,000 citizens, so massive recruitment is needed
(2) Policemen in Nigeria are renown for bribe taking because of their poor remuneration packages. Police...
ALL Progressives Congress (APC) national leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has declared himself fit healthy after he arrived in the UK and debunked rumours that he had been afflicted by the Covid-19 virus saying he only came to London for a rest.
Over the weekend, it was reported that Asiwaju Tinubu has contracted coronavirus and...
NIGERIAN-born playmaker Michael Olise has become one of the most sought-after midfielders in the English Premier League in the run-up to the opening of the January transfer window forcing Championship side Reading to place a £40m price tag on him.
Olise, 18, is a left-footed mercurial playmaker, who started his career at...
NIGERIA'S main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has applauded the resolution by the British parliament to sanction any federal government official found to be responsible human rights violations during the recent Lekki Toll Gate massacre.
On November 23, the UK House of Commons debated the Lekki Toll Gate...
NIGERIAN health officials have warned members of the public against travelling to the UK and four other countries as well as receiving visitors from there because of the high risk of contracting the Covid-19 virus.
Like most African countries, Nigeria has been spared the worst of the coronavirus pandemic but the country...
WORLD Bank officials have approved a sum of $12bn to help developing countries like Nigeria and other African nations purchase Covid-19 vaccines when they become available most likely by the end of this year.
As soon as the pandemic struck in early 2020, scientists in several countries stepped up work to produce a vaccine...
NIGERIA'S federal government has directed all schools reopening on Monday next week across the country to conduct a weekly Covid-19 risk assessment tests on its pupils and staff to help prevent the spread of the virus.
Like most other nations, Nigeria shut down all her schools when the coronavirus pandemic broke out but with...
