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
At the moment, Nigeria is the UK’s fastest growing export market. We want to see this grow dramatically with an annual foreign direct investment (FDI) target of $1bn for British investors in Nigeria?
According to Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) UK-Nigeria trade was worth £3.4bn in 2016....
Ayo Akinfe
Nigeria is willing to offer European Union (EU) member states observer status at the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). This is to facilitate massive investment in West Africa with an annual minimum target of $500bn
Nigeria is offering free land and five year tax holidays to the European automobile...
KADUNA automobile assembly company Pan Nigeria has ended four decades of tradition and stopped assembling the Peugeot brand of cars switching instead to two Chinese models known as Chery and Higer.
Founded way back in the 1970s, Pan Nigeria started off as a joint venture between the federal government and French car maker...
Ayo Akinfe
Nigeria needs French automobile companies Citroen and Renault to come and open manufacturing and assembly plants in Nigeria immediately as Peugeot did. We need them to make Nigeria the centre of electric car manufacturing
Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi should come and open a facility in Nigeria to manufacture a coronavirus...
Ayo Akinfe
Host a meeting of the South East Governors Forum in Akwa. At this summit, I want to see him sell the others the idea of floating a finance house called Ogbunigwe Bank. It will hand out loans to small businesses across Igboland with a maximum interest rate of 5%
Sign a deal with Innoson Motors under which...
Ayo Akinfe
President Buhari was at another investment summit in Saudi Arabia this week. I am yet to hear of him signing any major Islamic finance deal while there
Upon assuming office in 2015, President Buhari actually enjoyed a lot of international goodwill with Nigeria being invited to every capital in the world. However, all...
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...
Ayo Akinfe
Nigeria is willing to offer all G7 member states observer status at the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). This is to facilitate massive investment in West Africa with an annual minimum target of $500bn
Nigeria is offering free land and five year tax holidays to the big automobile manufacturers like...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) US companies need to expand into new origins close to raw materials where production costs will be lower. Nigeria has got to be on a top global list of five favourite investment destinations
(2) As we speak, hundreds of US firms are relocating from China as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. They realise it is...
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