Ayo Akinfe
Under this scheme, the five states of the southeast geo-political zone will float a finance house called Ogbunigwe Bank. It will hand out loans to small businesses with a maximum interest rate of 5%
Every year, at least 200 Abriba and Ohafia cobblers will be sent to China to be trained on modern shoe production. The...
Ayo Akinfe
Nnewi will be turned into the Detroit of Africa with a pledge to woo every automobile manufacturer in the world there by 2025. Every car company must have a local manufacturing plant in Nnewi
By 2025, Anambra State will generate at least $100bn internally. It will subsequently withdraw from the federal allocation money...
Ayo Akinfe
Nigeria needs to attract at least $50bn in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2022 to avoid total economic collapse
Where on earth we are going to get it from I do not know and I am surprised that nobody is even talking about it at the moment
Waiting for investors to just come to Nigeria is utopian thinking.
We...
Ayo Akinfe
Getting Innoson to purchase the rights of The Beetle from Volkswagen so it can manufacture electric cars in Nnewi
Establishing a massive cattle ranch in Abia State to supply the leather for a shoemaking conglomerate in Aba
Getting a pharmaceutical giant like Pfizer to open a plant in Owerri or Orlu. It should start...
Ayo Akinfe
Float a public private partnership company in which the Anambra State government has no more than a 25% stake to manufacture Isiagu en mass. Maybe call it Ofe Nmanu Enterprises to attract investors such as myself
Build the world’s largest garment factory in Nnewi
Manufacturer isuagu coats for export
Manufacture...
Ayo Akinfe
Nothing is as responsible for Nigeria's current socio-economic woes as the federal revenue allocation formula. It has made us dependent on one primary commodity, stifled economic growth and inhibited productivity. I am hoping that Charles Soludu will initiative the process that will eventually slay this dragon. If by say...
Ayo Akinfe
First of all the military clampdown must end today. There are no Boko Haram or Iswap terrorists in the southeast, so all political prisoners should be released, all charges against Nnamdi Kanu should be dropped and Ipob should be recognised as a civil society agitation group. Southeast Nigeria is not Sambisa Forest or...
STREETS across Anambra State have remained deserted today as local residents comply with the sit-at-home order issued by secessionist group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) to protest the arrest of its leader Nnamdi Kanu.
In June, Mr Kanu was abducted by Nigerian security agents in Kenya and flown to Nigeria where he...
Ayo Akinfe
Immediately release Nnamdi Kanu and drop all charges against him
Reclassify the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) as a socio-cultural organisation
Get the South East Governors Forum to take over the Eastern Security Network (ESN) and turn it into a regional security body similar to Amotekun
Release all...
Ayo Akinfe
I would recreate the economic reconstruction agency Projects Development Institute (Proda) founded by Ukpabi Asika in 1971 and ask Nnamdi Kanu to head it
Ipob will change its name to Industrial and Productive Organisation of Brothers
I would them give Nnamdi Kanu the task of creating 5m automobile related jobs at...
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