Ayo Akinfe
Given that there are 200m Nigerians with about 50% of them being 18 and over, we should have a 20-year plan to build 40m housing units over the next 20 years
Of these 40m, the federal government will build at least 5m housing units in Abuja and Lagos each
All 36 state and the 774 local...
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
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
In 2014, economist Jim O'Neill, coined the phrase Mint nations. Basically, what he meant was that by 2050, Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey (Mint) would be the dominant global economic powers
He predictions were supported by all economists and it was easy to see why. They have sizeable populations, are key...
Ayo Akinfe
How many Nigerians know that their country is a member of the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, also known as Developing-8. It is an association for development co-operation made up of Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey
The objectives of D-8 Organization for Economic...
Ayo Akinfe
Modesty
Ship building
Seafaring
Automobile manufacturing ala Vauxhall
Steelmaking
Chocolate processing ala Cadbury’s
Mass textile processing
Railway carriage manufacture
Dairy processing
Building maintenance
If you look at it, the only thing we have taken over and surpassed them at is religion. We...
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
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...
DOMESTIC and international investors increased their investments in Nigeria by a whopping 39% last year amid signs that the country is gradually recovering from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic according to official figures just published.
Data just released by the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission...
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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