Ayo Akinfe
Private jets - A Gulfstream costs about $65m. Only the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has that kind of foreign exchange. In this new era, every penny needs to be saved for the purchase of much-needed industrial equipment. If we deplete the CBN’s reserves on things like private jets, then we have no moral right to complain...
FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua’s rematch against Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk is likely to be held on 20 August somewhere in the Middle East with Saudi Arabia touted as a most likely venue.
In September last year, Joshua lost his World Boxing Association (WBA), International Boxing Federation (IBF),...
Ayo Akinfe
You just need to look at the number of Sokoto youths who in their ignorance and ready to murder will nilly to understand the problem we have on our hands. Across northern Nigeria, numerous leading academics have repeatedly said that the region is heading for an impending catastrophe unless things change soon
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Ayo Akinfe
No none has said it but it is certain that one of the reason why Deborah's murderers were so enraged was because she was female. They were probably thinking: "How dare a common woman have the audacity to talk when we are discussing religion."
As we all know, women are the anchors and hubs of society. Without them, the...
Ayo Akinfe
Do you know that the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was founded in 1969? Sine then, it has provided billions of dollars worth of funding for its members to help them with infrastructural development. Hopefully the death of Deborah Samuel will lead to a rethink in the way Nigeria relates with the body
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Ayo Akinfe
For starters, every year, Nigeria's delegation to the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia should return with a minimum foreign direct investment sum of $50bn. If they do not, their trip is a meaningless jamboree
What is Nigeria getting in return for all this free revenue and publicity we just dash the Saudis? from now on,...
ZAMFARA State government has sent 97 Muslim cleric to the lesser hajj in Saudi Arabia as part of its strategy to combat the incessant spare of kidnapping and banditry in the state in the hope that their prayers will help ameliorate the problem.
Over recent years, Zamfara has been one of the states worst affected by banditry...
Ayo Akinfe
It was the French who gave us the culture of stripping criminals naked in public. They introduced this after the liberation of Paris in 1945. Women who collaborated with the Germans were stripped, had their hair shaved and paraded through the streets in shame
It was Japan that gave the world suicide bombing with its...
SAUDI Arabia has lifted its ban on direct flights to Nigeria and 16 other African nations which was introduced on December 8 last year in response to the discovery of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in South Africa.
Like many other countries worldwide, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia clamped down hard on Africa once the Omicron...
NIGERIA'S Federal Ministry of Works and Housing has received Islamic finance funding to the tune of N210bn ($504m) raised by the government to help it fund the execution of critical road projects across the country.
Overwhelmed by an inadequate resource base which has led to the country's annual budget only totalling about...