Ayo Akinfe
As we debate the creation of cattle ranches across Nigeria, are we aware of the fact that the global leather goods market was valued at $414bn in 2017, it is expected to reach $629.65bn by 2025? Here are the top 10 producers worldwide.
(1) China produces 6.17bn square feet of leather goods and...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) General Motors
(2) Ford
(3) Chrysler
(4) John Deere
(5) Dell
(6) Boeing
(7) Prizer
(8) Tyson Foods
(9) Hewlett Packard
(10) Nike
We need about $50bn in foreign direct investment in 2021 to save us from economic strangulation. If these companies come to Nigeria, it will create about 1m new jobs...
Ayo Akinfe
Nigeria needs to attract at least $50bn in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2021 to avoid total economic collapse. Where on earth we are going to get it from I do not know and I am surprised that nobody is even talking about it at the moment.
Waiting for investors to just come to Nigeria is utopian thinking. We should...
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(1) Nigeria is willing to offer the US observer status at the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). This is to facilitate massive US investment in West Africa
(2) Nigeria is offering free land and five year tax holidays to the big three US automobile manufacturers General Motors, Chrysler and Ford. We want...
ABOUT 8m West Africans opened new bank accounts during the coronavirus lockdown as the reduction in commercial activities forced them to save money according to a new report just released by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
During the lockdown, markets, motor parks, supermarkets and all other commercial centres were...
MALI'S new government has been sworn-in in the capital Bamako today after the interim president Bah Ndaw named the members of his cabinet who will govern the country for the next 18 months.
On August 18, the Malian military seized power toppling President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and prime minister Boubou Cisse. Following the...
VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo has assured Nigerian traders in Ghana that they would get justice as the negotiations between the two countries to reverse the $1m levy placed on them by the Ghanaian authorities continues.
Across the major markets in most Ghanaian cities, Nigerian traders dominate the retail trade,...
MALI's military junta has been given until September 15 by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to appoint a civilian head of a transitional government as part of a wider plan to restoring democracy within a year.
Last month, what started off as a military mutiny over salary arrears, ballooned into a full...
GHANA and Nigeria have been locked in intense negotiations in Abuja over the ongoing diplomatic spat brought about by the recent decision by the Ghanaian authorities to levy Nigerian traders operating in the country a hefty sum of $1m.
Across the major markets in most Ghanaian cities, Nigerian traders dominate the retail...
MALI'S military junta has agreed to the proposed Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) transition programme that involves them conducting elections and handing over to a democratic government within a year.
Earlier this month, what started off as a military mutiny over salary arrears, ballooned into a full blown...
