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
Do you that on July 11 1960, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger Republic all declared their independence from France? Sadly, they did not agree to merge and form one country
That year 1960 was the one which most African nations achieved independence. If we want to be honest about it, after World War Two,...
EUROPEAN Union (EU) officials have threatened to reject cocoa produced in Nigeria as from next year due to quality issues that have got out of hand lately resulting in over0-chemicalised produce that does not meet food safety standards being shipped.
Nigeria is currently the world's fourth largest cocoa producer with an...
Ayo Akinfe
The vultures are just waiting in the wings to devour the carcass of a dismembered Nigeria. We will become the global dumping ground for all obsolete goods and everyone will open up military bases in the hundreds of weak mini statelets
Do you know that the US has 30 military bases in Africa? Washington uses...
Ayo Akinfe
Do you know that jollof rice originated in Senegal? It is the traditional delicacy of the Wollof people but alas, today, Nigeria has cornered it and made it her own
If Nigeria was a functioning economy, by now one mega conglomerate like maybe Dangote Industries would have patented jollof rice and cornered the global...
Ayo Akinfe
Brazil produces about 770m tonnes of sugarcane annually that generates about $36bn in revenue for the country’s economy
As far back as 2011, 1.1m people were employed in the Brazilian sugarcane industry. Despite instances of poor conditions for workers, it is one of the highest paying agricultural sectors in Brazil,...
Ayo Akinfe
A 170 metre Ferris Wheel will be built there- This will make it the largest in the world and it will be solar-powered (High Roller, the one in Las Vegas is 167.6 meters and currently holds the world record). Also, no Ferris Wheel anywhere on earth is solar-powered as ours will be
The Ondo State government will build...
Ayo Akinfe
We should aim for annual double digit economic growth between 2023 and 2030. If we enjoy 10% growth every year for a decade, it will increase Nigeria's GDP to over $1trn
In 2014, when we enjoyed our highest export revenue generation, receipts totalled $102bn. That year we had a trade surplus of about $1.5bn....
Ayo Akinfe
We should aim for annual double digit economic growth between 2021 and 2030. If we enjoy 10% growth every year for a decade, it will increase Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP) to over $1trn, freeing up money for all those social amenities currently beyond the reach of our people
In 2014, when we enjoyed our...
CRYSTAL Palace playmaker Ebere Eze has hinted that he may now decided to opt for Nigeria and play for the Super Eagles after pointing out that he has not closed the door on making a Fifa switch.
Ebere, 22, has been the subject of a tug of war between Nigeria and England lately, with both nations desperately fighting for the...