By Ayo Akinfe
As the years go by, the number of barrels of crude oil Nigeria sells will reduce by the day. We are not alone in this as every other Opec nation is facing a similar problem. Supply and demand fundamentals are a reality. Petroleum has little future and everyone else is looking at alternatives
What makes Nigeria...
Ayo Akinfe
Get the federal government to buy the rights to the Volkswagen Beetle. Then enter into a pact with Innoson Motors where the government owns 25% of a joint venture that manufactures electric Beetles. Make Nigeria the world’s largest manufacturer of such vehicles
Build the world’s largest wind farm along Nigeria’s...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) Buying private jets when we do not have an aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) in Nigeria is just an act of economic sabotage as all is does is drain foreign exchange and enrich foreign aircraft manufacturers
(2) Buying generators when you could install solar panels on your roof is not only economically...
Ayo Akinfe
The Fulani Cattle Company
This subject needs no further introduction. We need all the wealthy Fulani livestock owners to pool their resources together to form a massive company that will operate ranches, dairy companies, leather tanneries, abattoirs and animal feed compounders. It should turn Nigeria into a major exporter...
CAMEROONIAN Customs authorities have arrested a Nigerian and two local men for attempting to smuggle 80 cobras and vipers to London from Douala aboard an Air France commercial flight.
In the first such case of its kind, the men were arrested at the airport in Cameroon's commercial hub Douala for trying to use fake papers to...
NIGERIA'S federal government has barred Emirates Airlines from operating in the country as from Monday September 21 as part of its imposition of reciprocal restrictions on airlines who country do not allow Nigerian flights into their airspace.
When Nigeria lifted the embargo in international flights on September 5, only nine...
NIGERIAN aviation authorities have only granted nine airlines approval to commence international flights in and out of the country when the federal government opens up its airspace tomorrow on Saturday September 5.
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Nigeria, like most other countries shut her borders, cancelled international...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) At least one national automobile company that manufactures a car synonymous with the country like say Fiat, Lada, Skoda or Volvo
(2) An aircraft carrier to patrol her territorial waters and continental shelf
(3) At least one manufacturing giant who can supply the nation with all its industrial goods. If the rest...