Ayo Akinfe
Idah in Kogi State - River Niger
Lokoja in Kogi State - River Niger
Kaduna in Kaduna State - River Kaduna
Illah in Delta State - River Niger
Yola in Adamawa State - River Benue
Lau in Taraba State - River Benue
Makurdi in Benue State - River Benue
Sagbama in Bayelsa State - River Niger
Birnin Kebbi in Kebbi...
Ayo Akinfe
A 10,000MW hydro-electric power plant at the confluence of the Rivers Niger and Benue in Lokoja
An 830km coastal wind farm stretching from Badagry to Calabar
A 5,000MW gas-fired plant in Bonny
An Usman Dan Fodio Solar farm stretching across Zamfara, Kebbi and Sokoto states
An El-Kanemi Solar Farm stretching across...
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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
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
On this day, November 12, in 1961, Queen Elizabeth visited Ghana for what was a hugely popular tour. She danced with President Kwame Nkrumah on the night and after event, all talk of Ghana leaving the Commonwealth just ended. I long for a return to the days when an African leader could force the British monarch to embark...
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...
By Ayo Akinfe
Africa is in the middle of the world and Nigeria is in the middle of Africa. If you actually look at a map of Africa, the continent is shaped like a gum and Nigeria is exactly where the trigger should be
In terms of landmass, Nigeria is only number 14 in Africa. Yet we have the largest population and the biggest...
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Turn Nnewi into another Detroit by attracting every single automobile manufacturer there. All sorts of sweeteners should be offered to woo them
Build two more River Niger crossings. One should be a railway crossing that ends up in Lagos
Dredge the River Niger up to Onitsha, turning it into Africa’s largest inland...
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Build an 830km Atlantic windmill wall along our coast from Badagry to Calabar. We should set ourselves a target of generating at least 5,000MW from this project
Build a 25,000MW hydro-electricity power plant at the confluence of the Rivers Niger and Benue in Lokoja. This will involve the creation of an artificial Lake...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) Nnewi will be turned into the Detroit of Africa with a pledge to woo every autobiography manufacturer in the world there by 2025. Ever car company must have a local manufacturing plant in Nnewi
(2) By 2025, Anambra State will generate at least $100bn internally. It will subsequently withdraw from the federal...
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