Ayo Akinfe
On May 14 1897, Great Britain signed a treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia, creating bilateral relationships between Ethiopia and British Somaliland. It guaranteed the rights of the citizens of both territories and opened the door to trade between them
Although not exactly an agreement between equals like say...
Ayo Akinfe
A rail network will be constructed across the country over the next 20 years linking all 36 states, employing no less than 10m people. This will also involve the manufacturing of carriages, tracks, signal boxes, equipment, etc
Lagos to Abuja will be linked by a Maglev bullet train running at a speed of about 500km per...
Ayo Akinfe
An annual 30% tax of the value of every private jet in the country
A 50% tithe tax compelling all clergymen to hand over half of all they receive in offerings
A Dubai party tax that levies 50% of the value of any party Nigerians throw abroad
An Owambe tax which attracts a flat fee of around N50,000 per...
Ayo Akinfe
As a people, we are too passionate about our religious faiths. An overwhelming number of Nigerians want to go to heaven when they die but are not willing to lay down their lives for the country
Nigerians are closely attached to their ethnic groups and traditional rulers. Thus acts as an impediment to integration
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Ayo Akinfe
The federal government will offer free tuition right up until the end of secondary school to every Nigerian child
Nigeria will spend 15% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on education
Nigeria's federal government will fund the provision of free uniforms in all public schools
Nigeria's federal government will...
Ayo Akinfe
12 specialist hospitals shall be built in Nigeria with two in each geo-political zone. These shall include - Dermatology, optometrics, renal failure, cardialogy, neurology, ear/throat/nose, cancer, Hiv/Aids, orthopedia, rheumatics, tropical diseases and sickle cell anaemia
Pharmaceutical companies will be given 10 year...
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...
Ayo Akinfe
Do you know that Nigeria is the only country on the world that had three slave shipping ports? We had Calabar, Lagos and Badagry, all if which shipped human cargo to the New World in mega quantities. It is crystal clear that without Nigeria there simply would never have been the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade or the global...
Ayo Akinfe
World War Two is one of my great passions as I could study it non-stop 24/7. It lead to so many innovations and altered the way we live to such an extent that it deserves to be studied 365 days a year
One of the biggest revelations of the war were the Tuskegee Airmen. Four squadrons of all-black African Americans...
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