Ayo Akinfe
We live in a country whereby Nigerian general hospitals lack beddings, drugs and are characterised by filthy wards. To make matters worse, they are manned by unmotivated staff and of course our hospitals suffer from regular power cuts
In the 1970s, under the Murtala/Obasanjo regime, there was a policy to municipalise...
Ayo Akinfe
As from 2022 inwards, every African nation is compelled to produce an least half of what they consume
If any African nation fails to produce 50% of all its needs, the African Union should be empowered to merge it with one of its neighbours
Historically, Europe has taken over the running of sick countries...
Ayo Akinfe
As from 2022, all African nations must stop exporting wildlife. If anyone wants to see lions, elephants, giraffes, leopards, cheetahs, gorillas, baboons, zebras, rhinos, hippos, etc, they should come to Africa. There is absolutely no justification for the zoo. For starters it is a crime against nature to cage wild animals...
GUINEA has been suspended from the African Union (AU) following the recent military coup in the country that resulted in Lt Col Mamady Doumbouya seizing power and arresting President Alpha Conde.
In what is a break from a commitment by African countries to allow democracy to thrive, the Guinean military toppled the...
Ayo Akinfe
Nigeria;'s president should insist that a memorial be erected on the Burma/India border to honour the men of the West African Frontier Force and the East African Frontier Force who died there during World War Two. It was African troops who prevented the Japanese from invading India at great personal cost. Nobody ever...
NIGERIA and 54 other African countries are to benefit from the donation of 220m doses of the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine after the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) signed a supply agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica.
Under the programme due to be introduced by the end of 2022, some 35m doses are to be...
Ayo Akinfe
Nigeria's economic and human development indicators will be compared annually with those of other Mint nations like Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey and Brics nations like Brazil, India, Russia, China and South Africa, to ensure we never fall behind
At the moment, Nigeria's human development index is on a par with...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) Are you aware that in 2003, President Olusegun Obasanjo signed the Maputo Declaration compelling the federal and 36 state governors to spending 10% of their annual budgets on agricultural projects?
(2) Designed to combat unemployment, guarantee food security and ensure no African nation is wholly dependent on one...
SOUTH Africa has stopped administering the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine after doubts were raised about the efficacy of the jab against its local strain of the virus and has sold off 1m doses of its remaining consignment to 14 other African nations.
Last month, South Africa suspended its vaccination programme which had...
PRESIDENT Joe Biden has offered to attend the next African Union (AU) summit as part of his administration's collegiate approach to global affairs in stark contrast to the unilateralist America-first policy of his predecessor Donald Trump.
Between 2017 and 2021, President Trump adopted a unilateralist approach to foreign...
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