Premier League top shots begin their journey to the finals of the oldest national football competition in the world as they make the entrance to the FA cup competition today. The big professional teams in England such as Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, and Manchester City don’t enter the competition until the third round of the competition in January.
Premier League clubs and the world football are on a thirty-one days buy, sell and loan players roundabout, as the transfer merry-go-round swings back into action today. An incisive signing in the middle of the season can either fuel a title challenge, allow clubs to play European continental football or help a club survive in the top flight.
No doubt, a number of ills characterised Buhari’s administration in 2019. From over 75 attacks on the press, to a number of violations of court orders and the pumped prices that came with the closure of the Nigerian border. Chibok girls are still missing and the negotiation for release remain a political subject. Moreover, thousands of displaced persons and deaths still caused by Boko Haram attacks. The same government has virtually run deficit budget and incurred not less than $80 billion in debt since 2015.
Since its inception in 2012, the National Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) has focused on enhancing the development of five key infrastructural sectors. They include; agriculture, healthcare, motorways, real estate and power. According to NETI’s recent report as of 2016, NSIA had made a capital contribution of $1,277, 653 in agriculture, N16,111,308 on the second Niger bridge and about N3,000,000,000 on Nigeria equity and shares. While the majority of its investments have been on agriculture, healthcare, motorways and real estate, no investment has been made in power infrastructure despite the strategic importance of power to Nigeria’s economy.
Unlike the usual deficits that define the national budgets, the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) has recorded an accrued surplus of unused funds for capital expenditures and capacity building programmes totalling N62 billion by 2016. However, the recurrent expenses increased by 137% from N3.85 billion to N9.14 billion between 2012 and 2016.
