PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has taken the bizarre step of pardoning 159 convicts including two former governors who were convicted for financial malpractices in what appears to be an open negation of his administration's anti-corruption policy.
In 2015, President Buhari was elected with a promise to clean out corruption in...
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Build at least one silo in each of our 774 local government areas to store all our cash crops and food crops. We then need to build processsing plants around these silos with a goal of adding at least 50% value to every agricultural product we produce
Get the Ajaokuta and Aladja steel mills running at full capacity....
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Build the world’s tallest and first solar powered Ferris wheel
Win the Fifa men’s World Cup
China’s Shanghai Maglev train is currently the fastest in the world with a top speed of 317km per hour. Let us top this by building a Lagos to Abuja high speed link that can travel at 350km an hour
We talk a lot...
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By 2025, every one of our 19-member states must generate enough revenue to at least meet its running costs
Every state in northern Nigeria must be twinned with a state in the south as part of our education policy. By 2025, every northern state must match its southern twin in terms of literacy, secondary school leavers,...
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I have ordered the immediate dropping of all charges against Nnamdi Kanu and all other members of the Indigenous People of Biafra. They are to be released without charge and negotiations will commence with them immediately to address their concerns. Troops will also be withdrawn from across the southeast and...
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Our herdsman crisis can only be resolved by opening cattle ranches. We need to attract about $5bn to build six mega ranches with accompanying leather tanneries, milk processing plants, veterinary clinics and animal feed compounders
In Turkey, they used Islamic finance to build a Eurostar-type railway tunnel under the...
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(1) We need to build a holy city somewhere and name it Angelsville. We should sell it as a major tourist attraction like Paris Disneyland or Australia’s Tasmania. It should be the home of all sorts of biblical and mythical characters like black angels, burning bushes, winged humans, winged animals, centaurs, minotaurs,...
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(1) Open a 20,000 square kilometre National Game Reserve in Taraba State. Make it the world’s largest wildlife sanctuary. Designed along similar lines to South Africa’s Kruge National Park, it should employ about 5,000 park rangers to police and fight off poachers
(2) Create six mega cattle ranches of at least 1,000...
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(1) A mega Koma village centred around the traditional culture of these people
(2) The tomb of Ajayi Crowther to attract Christian pilgrims
(3) The tomb of Usman Dan Fodio to attract Muslim pilgrims
(4) A Niagra Falls type facility at Lokoja
(5) The world’s largest cattle ranch in the Sambisa Forest
(6) A mega...
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(1) One of the most heartening things about the incoming Biden administration is that it has agreed to return to the Paris Climate Agreement abandoned by Donald Trump. This may be our last chance to save our planet
(2) As futuristic and sci-fi as it may sound, we could easily de-oxiginate our planet and make it...