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Posts tagged with "Burkina Faso"

Nothing symbolises how unproductive we are in Nigeria like the fishing industry African News

Nothing symbolises how unproductive we are in Nigeria like the fishing industry

Ayo Akinfe It is criminal laziness bordering on a crime against mother nature for a country with 853km of Atlantic coastline to be importing fish. I do not know of any other nation in the same position that does so Again, this is a another case of crude oil making us lazy. We believed we had enough money to import anything we...
Nigeria should have used the unique coincidence of Lent and Ramadan holding at the same time to drive home the message about Cain and the horrors of nomadism African News

Nigeria should have used the unique coincidence of Lent and Ramadan holding at the same time to drive home the message about Cain and the horrors of nomadism

Ayo Akinfe I am surprised that despite the hundreds of thousands of clergymen and millions of churches and mosques littered across Nigeria, nobody has been able to see the parallels between our current situation and the case of Cain and Abel. We should be analysing this interesting biblical myth and use it as a template to find...
As the 2023 elections loom, any presidential candidate from Lagos State should be able to come up with a robust fishing policy which guarantees that the sector will generate at least $10bn in revenue annually African News

As the 2023 elections loom, any presidential candidate from Lagos State should be able to come up with a robust fishing policy which guarantees that the sector will generate at least $10bn in revenue annually

Ayo Akinfe It is criminal laziness bordering on a crime against mother nature for a country with 853km of Atlantic coastline to be importing fish. I do not know of any other nation in the same position that does so Again, this is a another case of crude oil making us lazy. We believed we had enough money to import anything we...
I keep asking myself what has happened to the pan-African dreams of our founding fathers like Kwame Nkrumah African News

I keep asking myself what has happened to the pan-African dreams of our founding fathers like Kwame Nkrumah

Ayo Akinfe On this day, November 12, in 1961, Queen Elizabeth visited Ghana for what was a hugely popular tour. She danced with President Kwame Nkrumah on the night and after event, all talk of Ghana leaving the Commonwealth just ended. I long for a return to the days when an African leader could force the British monarch to embark...
Nigeria steps up construction of West African power transmission line to link up with Ecowas neighbours African News

Nigeria steps up construction of West African power transmission line to link up with Ecowas neighbours

NIGERIA has stepped up construction of a West African electricity transmission line aimed at connecting the country with three other nations across the sub region under an ambitious regional power scheme.   Constructed under the West Africa Power Pool (Wapp) North Core Project, the transmission line, when completed, will...
Let us use today to reflect on the fact that balkanising Nigeria is tantamount to pressing the self destruct button African News

Let us use today to reflect on the fact that balkanising Nigeria is tantamount to pressing the self destruct button

Ayo Akinfe Today, Nigeria is 61 but alas, a 61 year old with a lot of problems that include ethnic strife, religious extremism, being a mono-economy, inadequate productivity, poor social infrastructure, a lack of security, limited social amenities, corruption, a lack of patriotism, nepotism, etc They say the darker the night, the...
Ecowas neighbours step up plans to buy the excess power Nigeria generates but cannot distribute African News

Ecowas neighbours step up plans to buy the excess power Nigeria generates but cannot distribute

NIGERIA'S neighbours within the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) are planning to buy up the country's unutilised power that is generated but not distributed due to bottlenecks in the transmission network.   Reeling from the effects of a crisis in its power sector, Nigeria currently generates about 7,000MW of...
NFF lines up Super Eagles friendlies against Cameroon and Senegal in Austria next month African News

NFF lines up Super Eagles friendlies against Cameroon and Senegal in Austria next month

NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials have commenced talks with the Cameroonian and Senegalese football associations about the prospect of the Super Eagles playing friendlies against them during the two June Fifa windows.   Up until last week, Nigeria was billed to play Liberia in a World Cup qualifier on June 6 and...
Nigeria excluded from IMF list of 28 nations granted debt relief under Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust African News

Nigeria excluded from IMF list of 28 nations granted debt relief under Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust

NIGERIA has been excluded from the list of 28 countries granted debt pardon by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT) which offers an amnesty to very poor countries.   As a result of the economic fallout of coronavirus pandemic, many poor countries have been unable to...
Super Eagles seal qualification for African Nations Cup with late winner in Porto Novo African News

Super Eagles seal qualification for African Nations Cup with late winner in Porto Novo

NIGERIA'S Super Eagles have qualified for the 2021 African Cup of Nations in dramatic fashion today after scoring an injury time winning goal against Benin Republic at the  Charles de Gaulle stadium in Porto Novo ending the host's eight-year unbeaten home record.   With the game certain to end in a 0-0 draw that would have...
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