By Ayo Akinfe
(1) Let us show the whole world we can control and contain a pandemic
(2) Let us come up with a vaccine to treat coronavirus that will give us a new status within the human family
(3) Let us manufacture all our own medical equipment and start exporting too
(4) Make our test centres the most efficient in the word
(5) Queue in an orderly fashion for everything, observing social distancing as we do it
(6) Provide enough food and medicines for our people throughout the lockdown
(7) Emerge from the crisis as an industrial and manufacturing giant that produces all it needs locally
(8) Make this the end of our “Dark Century” when we relied on imports of everything from Caucasian nations for our survival
(9) Replace our passion for religion and superstition with science, intellectual thought, research, logic and industrial creativity
(10) Make a solemn pledge that never again will we export raw and primary commodities without adding any value to them
