Ayo Akinfe
As we reel from the effects of the travel apartheid, I have been wracking my brains to look for a solution to the problem of the African being regarded as sub-human. No matter how you look at it, this prejudice and bias will never go away until we have an African economy that sits at the high table of humanity
Just...
Ayo Akinfe
I have been wracking my brain endlessly as the 2023 elections loom, trying to figure out how Nigeria addresses her $100bn annual infrastructure deficit and alas, I can only come up with one solution - Putinomics!
Putinomics is basically what you could term forced local direct investment (FLDI). It involves the...
WASHINGTON has removed Nigeria from its list of religious violator nations that constantly engage in or tolerate systematic and egregious violations of religious freedoms against its citizens.
Up until now, Nigeria had been on the list of religious violators, mainly as a result of the activities of Fulani cattle herdsmen and...
Ayo Akinfe
First of all, he should let the whole world know that Nigeria is not Afghanistan where what happens remains local. Whenever anything happens in Nigeria, it has continental implications. If Iswap or Boko Haram seize power in Nigeria, there will be a massive domino effect across Africa. They ignore Nigeria at their peril
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NIGERIA and Russia have signed a military cooperation agreement that involves Moscow supplying Abuja with equipment and training its troops as part of an expanded cooperative agreement between the two nations.
Under the terms of the military-technical cooperation agreement, a wide range of areas were covered under which...
NIGERIA has asked the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to increase her production quota of 1.77m barrels a day in response to falling global prices after Brent crude tumbled to below $70 a barrel yesterday.
Following the collapse in global crude oil consumption in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic,...
NIGERIA is poised to enjoy a mini revival in her economic fortunes as the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and its allies are set to increase their combined output by 2m barrels per day from August to December to meet recovering demand.
Following the collapse in global crude oil consumption in the...
Ayo Akinfe
Nigeria's economic and human development indicators will be compared annually with those of other Mint nations like Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey and Brics nations like Brazil, India, Russia, China and South Africa, to ensure we never fall behind
At the moment, Nigeria's human development index is on a par with...
NIGERIA'S has been listed as one of the stop seven gas-flaring countries by the World Bank after a recent report revealed that the Niger Delta and six other nations account for two thirds of flared gas globally.
According to the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR)'s recently published gas flaring...
