Ayo Akinfe
Do you know that the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was founded in 1969? Sine then, it has provided billions of dollars worth of funding for its members to help them with infrastructural development. Hopefully the death of Deborah Samuel will lead to a rethink in the way Nigeria relates with the body
Nigeria...
Ayo Akinfe
Nigeria will have an annual budget ratio of $1bn to every 1m citizens. In 2023 for instance, with a population of 200m, our national budget shall not be less than $200bn
Every one of Nigeria’s 36 states shall generate at least twice the amount of its running costs. Any state that fails to do this over two successive...
Ayo Akinfe
How many Nigerians know that their country is a member of the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, also known as Developing-8. It is an association for development co-operation made up of Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey
The objectives of D-8 Organization for Economic...
Ayo Akinfe
I ask whether Nigerians ever set themselves annual national goals. Growing up as kids, we were all told to make new year resolutions. I wonder why this does not extend to national and developmental matters
Are Nigerians aware of the fact that Unesco advised the country to spend 26% of her national budget on education?...
Ayo Akinfe
In 2014, economist Jim O'Neill, coined the phrase Mint nations. Basically, what he meant was that by 2050, Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey (Mint) would be the dominant global economic powers
He predictions were supported by all economists and it was easy to see why. They have sizeable populations, are key...
Ayo Akinfe
How many Nigerians know that their country is a member of the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, also known as Developing-8. It is an association for development co-operation made up of Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey
The objectives of D-8 Organization for Economic...
NIGERIA'S Federal Ministry of Works and Housing has received Islamic finance funding to the tune of N210bn ($504m) raised by the government to help it fund the execution of critical road projects across the country.
Overwhelmed by an inadequate resource base which has led to the country's annual budget only totalling about...
Ayo Akinfe
We will boost generated electricity from the current 7,000MW to South Africa’s 50,000MW
This government will increase the kilometres of tarred roads from the current 200,000km to South Africa’s 750,000km
Between now and when we leave office, we will increase the length of our railway network from the current...
By Ayo Akinfe
How many Nigerians know that their country is a member of the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, also known as Developing-8. It is an association for development co-operation made up of Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey
The objectives of D-8 Organization...
SIX Nigerians have been handed jail sentences by an Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after their conviction for funding terrorist sect Boko Haram was upheld.
At the hearing, the appellate court upheld a lower court ruling which found that between 2015 and 2016, the convicts were involved in...