Ayo Akinfe
Today is June 12, Nigeria's Democracy Day, so I am going to use the occasion to present a document to Nigeria's leading presidential candidates. On June 7 in 1776, Richard Lee from Virginia moved the US Declaration of Independence in Congress. How about someone moves our Declaration of Economic Independence in the...
Ayo Akinfe
You just need to look at the number of Sokoto youths who in their ignorance and ready to murder will nilly to understand the problem we have on our hands. Across northern Nigeria, numerous leading academics have repeatedly said that the region is heading for an impending catastrophe unless things change soon
Accounting...
Ayo Akinfe
Do you know that the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was founded in 1969? Sine then, it has provided billions of dollars worth of funding for its members to help them with infrastructural development. Hopefully the death of Deborah Samuel will lead to a rethink in the way Nigeria relates with the body
Nigeria...
Ayo Akinfe
Nigeria will have an annual budget ratio of $1bn to every 1m citizens. In 2023 for instance, with a population of 200m, our national budget shall not be less than $200bn
Every one of Nigeria’s 36 states shall generate at least twice the amount of its running costs. Any state that fails to do this over two successive...
Ayo Akinfe
On September 28 1785, Napoleon Bonaparte graduated from the military academy in Paris. He was only 42nd in a class of 51 and no one paid any particular notice to him. However, history had other ideas
A right wing and reactionary general brought in to crush the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte ended up leaving an...
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
I ask whether Nigerians ever set themselves annual national goals. Growing up as kids, we were all told to make new year resolutions. I wonder why this does not extend to national and developmental matters
Are Nigerians aware of the fact that Unesco advised the country to spend 26% of her national budget on education?...
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...
NIGERIA'S Federal Ministry of Works and Housing has received Islamic finance funding to the tune of N210bn ($504m) raised by the government to help it fund the execution of critical road projects across the country.
Overwhelmed by an inadequate resource base which has led to the country's annual budget only totalling about...
Ayo Akinfe
We like to blame colonialism for all our woes but after 50 years as an independent nation, that excuse was no longer tenable. On August 31 1957, Malaya gained independence from Britain. Like Nigeria, she was ruthlessly colonised by the British but had to be let go after World War Two.
A gentleman named Tunku...
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