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...
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...
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...
THOUSANDS of Fulani herdsmen are leaving Nigeria with their livestock and settling into neighbouring countries like Chad and Cameron as a result of the growing opposition to open grazing according to the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban).
In May this year, the Southern Governors Forum met in the...
Ayo Akinfe
Mali is currently being ruled by a military junta
Chad is currently being ruled by a military junta
Guinea has now followed suit with the army in power
Unless we want Western nations coming into our backyard to tell us how to live, Nigeria needs to get her act together fast
I sometimes wonder if Nigeria has...
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...
NIGERIA'S security problems in the northeast of the country could get considerably worse over the coming weeks as Chadian rebels who recently killed President Idris Deby have begun an advance on the capital N’djamena.
Last Monday, President Deby was killed in a clash with the rebels when his visited his troops on the...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) As the former Chadian president was Boko Haram’s most formidable adversary, the vacuum needs to be filled with an intensified military presence in the Lake Chad Basin or we will end up with another Afghanistan on our hands. I await a Blitzkreig operation over the next few weeks
(2) I think it is time to expand the...
Ayo Akinfe
Register and licence local vigilante groups
Establish 20 battalions in strategic towns in the north east
Commence building of a fence along the borders with Chad/Cameroon/Niger
Offer free uniforms and school meals to all youths in the area to encourage education
Get the Lake Chad Basin Authority to create 30,000...
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...