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Lagos State government establishes Anti-Okada Squad to help enforce motorcycle taxi ban African News

Lagos State government establishes Anti-Okada Squad to help enforce motorcycle taxi ban

LAGOS State government has established an Anti-Okada Squad to assist the police in enforcing the recent ban on motorcycle taxis across six local government areas under its renewed clampdown on crime.   Over recent years, the motorcycle taxi, popularly known as Okada has become a common feature on Lagos roads as the city's...
Nigeria's motorcycle imports soar by 22% during the first quarter of 2022 according to NBS African News

Nigeria's motorcycle imports soar by 22% during the first quarter of 2022 according to NBS

NIGERIA'S spending on motorcycle imports ballooned by 22% during the first quarter of 2022 compared with the last three months of 2021 as a total of N74.6bn ($180m) was spent on purchases up from N61.25bn the previous quarter.   According to figures just published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), quarter-on-quarter...
Whoever wins needs to send a Loans Procurement Bill to the National Assembly immediately he assumes office in May next year to fund infrastructural development African News

Whoever wins needs to send a Loans Procurement Bill to the National Assembly immediately he assumes office in May next year to fund infrastructural development

Ayo Akinfe In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report in which it warned that Nigeria’s debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio was growing at an alarming rate. Although still within reason as the federal government’s external debt of $40bn is still less than 10% of GDP,...
Hausa community leaders in Lagos appeal to Sanwoolu to reconsider his ban on Okadas African News

Hausa community leaders in Lagos appeal to Sanwoolu to reconsider his ban on Okadas

LEADERS of the Hausa community in Lagos State have appealed to Governor Babajide Sanwoolu to review his recent ban on Okada commercial motorcycles in six local government areas as the move would deny their members of their livelihood.   Last week, Governor Sanwoolu extended the ban on Okadas to Eti-Osa, Ikeja, Surulere, Lagos...
Every Nigerian man and woman of goodwill should have this as their 2022 wish list African News

Every Nigerian man and woman of goodwill should have this as their 2022 wish list

Ayo Akinfe Increasing generated power from the current 7,000MW to about 50,000MW through a variety of sources like wind, solar, thermal, gas, hydro and waste recycling Initiating a Lagos Underground tube network. Lagos is the largest city in the world without an underground network. With 12m people and no metro, you will always...
World Bank report reveals that moving goods within Nigeria is 5.3% higher than in the US African News

World Bank report reveals that moving goods within Nigeria is 5.3% higher than in the US

WORLD Bank officials have lamented the fact that it costs more to move goods locally within Nigerian than to ship them around the US  as local shipment costs are some 5.3 times higher than they are in America.   Like most developing nations, Nigeria suffers greatly from the high cost of doing business due to the lack of basic...
10 things I expect Charles Soludo to do within the first 100 days of him being sworn-in African News

10 things I expect Charles Soludo to do within the first 100 days of him being sworn-in

  Ayo Akinfe Host a meeting of the South East Governors Forum in Akwa. At this summit, I want to see him sell the others the idea of floating a finance house called Ogbunigwe Bank. It will hand out loans to small businesses across Igboland with a maximum interest rate of 5% Sign a deal with Innoson Motors under which...
After the Ikoyi tower block tragedy maybe it is time for our state governors to all come up with geo-political declarations that will provide some semblance of sanity starting with the southwest where this slaughter took place African News

After the Ikoyi tower block tragedy maybe it is time for our state governors to all come up with geo-political declarations that will provide some semblance of sanity starting with the southwest where this slaughter took place

Ayo Akinfe We shall provide loans with interest rates of no more than 5% interest to anyone wishing to delve into agriculture. Such loans will be tailored towards buying hybrid seedlings, pesticides, herbicides, fertilisers and farming equipment like tractors, water tanks, silos and barns We will make land available to everyone...
President Buhari should follow up his visit to Imo State with a comprehensive pan-Igbo industrial expansion programme African News

President Buhari should follow up his visit to Imo State with a comprehensive pan-Igbo industrial expansion programme

Ayo Akinfe First of all the military clampdown must end today. There are no Boko Haram or Iswap terrorists in the southeast, so all political prisoners should be released, all charges against Nnamdi Kanu should be dropped and Ipob should be recognised as a civil society agitation group. Southeast Nigeria is not Sambisa Forest or...
10 tasks the new Olu of Itshekiri should set himself over the next decade African News

10 tasks the new Olu of Itshekiri should set himself over the next decade

Ayo Akinfe Attract international investors to come and take over the Aladja Steel Company. Get it employing at least 500 staff and producing about 10,000 tonnes a year Get the Warri Refinery and Petrochemicals Company located at Ekpan, upgraded into a major research and development facility of global repute Try and raise the...
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