Ayo Akinfe
Today is June 12, Nigeria's Democracy Day, so I am going to use the occasion to present a document to Nigeria's leading presidential candidates. On June 7 in 1776, Richard Lee from Virginia moved the US Declaration of Independence in Congress. How about someone moves our Declaration of Economic Independence in the...
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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
You know, sometimes maybe if we celebrate ourselves and acknowledge how much we can do, it will spur us on to doing greater things. Do you know that Nigeria accounts for about 70% of global yam production with an annual output of about 40m tonnes?
Yam is an important dietary element for Nigerian and West African...
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From henceforth, all public sector contracts must be published online
All contract bids must be made through an online portal
All government, ministries, departments and agencies must have a contract bidding online portal
All bids will be subject to review by a panel made up of civil servants, members of the...
Ayo Akinfe
On November 7 1916, Jeannette Rankin from Montana was elected to US Congress as its first ever woman representative. Nigeria is yet to elect a female governor. We have to correct this anomally come two years time
If you want to know how far mankind has come with the gender equality matter, do you know that on in...
Ayo Akinfe
This picture was taken on April 29, 1975 when the Vietcong captured Saigon. The Americans had to beat a hasty retreat and evacuate all their people immediately
Is it not ironic that September 2 is actually Vietnam’s Independence Day when they celebrated freedom from the French in 1945. Fast-forward 76 years and...
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How many Nigerians know that Pakistan is actually the most similar nation to Nigeria on earth? In terms of population, GDP, generated electricity, literacy rates, number of hospital beds, kilometres of tarred roads, level of corruption, religious fanaticism, etc, the figures obtainable in both countries are almost...
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Increase the size of our gross domestic product to about $5trn
Become the world's largest manufacturer of electronic automobiles
Take a cue from India who pride themselves on being the Pharmacy of the World and become the largest manufacturer of tropical drugs
Overtake Vietnam as the world's largest...
NIGERIA has been listed by the World Bank as one of the three countries on the planet with the highest rate of electricity deficit alongside Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia as well as being among the top 20 countries that lacks access to clean fuel.
In what is a major impediment to its development, Nigeria only...
Ayo Akinfe
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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