Ayo Akinfe
One thing that makes my heart bleed is the fact that as a continent, Africa has very little man-made infrastructure to show the rest of the world. All we really have are the pyramids of Egypt. We have less than a dozen real national monuments in Nigeria, with National Theatre, Cocoa House, Kainji Dam, etc, being a few
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Ayo Akinfe
Get the federal government to buy the rights to the Volkswagen Beetle. Then enter into a pact with Innoson Motors where the government owns 25% of a joint venture that manufactures electric Beetles. Make Nigeria the world’s largest manufacturer of such vehicles
Build the world’s largest wind farm along Nigeria’s...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) They did it by adopting a simple formula of gathering the best brains around them. They had a National Economic Council (NEC) which Gowon chaired and Awolowo served as its vice chairman
(2) Other members of the NEC included Joseph Tarka, Anthony Enahoro, Aminu Kano, Abubakar Waziri, etc. They formulated...