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
Under this scheme, the five states of the southeast geo-political zone will float a finance house called Ogbunigwe Bank. It will hand out loans to small businesses with a maximum interest rate of 5%
Every year, at least 200 Abriba and Ohafia cobblers will be sent to China to be trained on modern shoe production. The...
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,...
Ayo Akinfe
At the moment, Nigeria is the UK’s fastest growing export market. We want to see this grow dramatically with an annual foreign direct investment (FDI) target of $1bn for British investors in Nigeria?
According to Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) UK-Nigeria trade was worth £3.4bn in 2016....
Ayo Akinfe
I have always regarded the 1851 capture of Lagos as the date when the British colonisation of Nigeria began. That was the year when John Beecroft the British consul of the Bights of Benin and Biafra, lined up his naval gunboats off the coast of Lagos and forced Oba Akintoye to sign a treaty of protection handing over the...
GOVERNOR Ben Ayade of Cross River State has suffered a major setback in his presidential campaign after phone-in callers on a recent radio programme told him to go and clear the refuse on the streets of Calabar first before thinking about running Nigeria.
Although Governor Ayade is yet to officially declare himself a...
Ayo Akinfe
If we delve into the history of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, it is crystal clear that without Nigeria there simply would have been no global trade in human cargo
By my estimation, about one quarter of all the slaves in the New World came from Nigeria. It is no accident that our shores were called Slave Coast and the...
Ayo Akinfe
A 10,000MW hydro-electric power plant at the confluence of the Rivers Niger and Benue in Lokoja
An 830km coastal wind farm stretching from Badagry to Calabar
A 5,000MW gas-fired plant in Bonny
An Usman Dan Fodio Solar farm stretching across Zamfara, Kebbi and Sokoto states
An El-Kanemi Solar Farm stretching across...
Ayo Akinfe
A Bonny to Port Harcourt 44km suspension bridge
A 1km Asaba to Onitsha underwater aquarium
Africa’s first underwater restaurant in Lekki
A rebuilt Tower of Babel in Adamawa along the border with Cameroon
A West African Serengeti in Taraba State
The world’s largest cattle ranch at Sambisa Forest in Borno...
Ayo Akinfe
The federal government will fund the construction of 12 technical vocational training colleges in Aba
Nigeria’s Bank of Industry will open five branches in Aba
No Aba manufacturer will be charged more than 5% on any loans taken out
Any new manufacturer opening up in Aba will get a five year tax holiday
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