Ayo Akinfe
Plant trees along Nigeria’s borders with her neighbours and paint them green and white so we at least know where Nigeria begins and ends
Form a Border Guard and equip them with jeeps so they can conduct 24 hour patrols along the frontier. Too many arms are coming into Nigeria through her porous borders
Have a...
SEVERAL Nigerian blacksmiths have now acquired the necessary expertise to manufacture AK47 assault rifles and other light arms thus providing a steady flow of weaponry to bandits and criminals according to a recent Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) report.
Over the last decade or so, Nigeria has been wracked by insecurity as...
Ayo Akinfe
Once again, an African government has fallen and no doubt, the repercussions will spread to Nigeria
When Somalia’s government fell it became a haven for terrorists. Do you know that Boko Haram’s bomb makers were trained there originally
When Libya’s government fell, its armouries were raided by criminals....
BRITISH minister for Africa James Duddridge has expressed concern about the growing insecurity in Nigeria saying the violence unleashed by Boko Haram sect and its allied groups poses a great risk but added that the UK is willing to help combat the menace.
According to the Institute for Economics and Peace's 2021 Global...
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...
NIGERIA'S crude oil output rise slightly during February to 1.49m barrels a day according to figures just published by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) although production still lags behind the historic level of 2.5m barrels.
Traditionally, Nigeria has always had an Opec quota of 2.5m barrels a...
EGYPT has stepped up its ongoing campaign to become Africa's largest solar energy producer by taking out a $27.2m loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to build a new power plant at Kom Ombo along the River Nile.
Last year, Egypt added 581MW to its national solar power capacity, representing an almost fourfold...
NIGERIA'S ongoing economic woes got considerably worse last month as December crude oil production tumbled to low of 1.17m barrels a day as output was curtailed in line with Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) agreements.
Following the global economic slowdown brought about by the coronavirus pandemic,...
NIGERIA is facing a fresh additional revenue crisis after the petroleum ministry was forced reduce crude oil output to 1.32m barrels a day as part of its obligations to the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec).
Being a key member of the oil producers body Opec, Nigeria is compelled to adhere to its...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) As we can all see, Sars was just the catalyst for the uprising we have seen across the nation. It is poverty that has led the Nigerian masses to revolt. Unless the issue of their welfare is addressed, what we are witnessing today will just be a dress rehearsal for a much more violent revolt next year
(2) Food is...