Ayo Akinfe
First of all the military clampdown must end today. There are no Boko Haram or Iswap terrorists in the southeast, so all political prisoners should be released, all charges against Nnamdi Kanu should be dropped and Ipob should be recognised as a civil society agitation group. Southeast Nigeria is not Sambisa Forest or...
ABOUT 189 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have been murdered in Zamfara and Kaduna states with another 376 abducted as the growing insecurity ravaging the northwest of the country shows no sign of abating.
Currently reeling from chronic violence as the country is now awash with up to 6m illegal firearms,...
NIGERIA'S Northern State Governors Forum (NSGF) has finally accepted the recommendation of its counterparts the Southern Governors Forum and conceded that open grazing is no longer sustainable and all cattle should now be raised in ranches.
Earlier this month, the Southern Governors Forum met in Asaba, the Delta State...
Ayo Akinfe
Build a 853km wind farm along Nigeria’s Atlantic coastline
Build four mega solar farms in Borno, Yobe, Katsina and Zamfara states
Open the world’s largest solar panel manufacturing plant in Sokoto
Build a waste-to-power plant in Lagos
Attract automobile manufacturers to open electric car assembly plants in...
Ayo Akinfe
(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...
NIGERIAN security forces have managed to rescue about 180 of the 210 staff and pupils abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Kaduna State yesterday following a joint operation by military and police operatives.
In what is now becoming a regular occurrence, yesterday, armed gunmen stormed the school in...
NIGERIA'S federal ministry of education has begun moving pupils from boarding schools across the northeast of the country to secure locations in Abuja and elsewhere to avoid them being abducted by armed bandits and Boko Haram terrorists.
In what is now becoming a growing trend across Nigeria, armed criminal gangs now kidnap...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) Millet
(2) Sorghum
(3) Groundnuts
(4) Milk
(5) Leather goods
(6) Gum Arabic
(7) Neem
(8) Shea Nuts
(9) Horses
(10) Solar Power
(1) Leon Trotsky once said: “Even in ruins there is architecture.” Basically, what he meant was that the Phoenix always has a way of rising from the ashes to achieve greater...
GOVERNORS of the seven states in Nigeria's northwest geo-political zone have conceded that the only way to address the ongoing violence perpetuated by Fulani cattle herdsmen across the country is to establish ranches but have asked for more time to establish them.
Over recent years, herdsmen have created widespread panic...
ISLAMIC cleric Sheikh Abubakar Gumi has revealed that during his recent interaction with bandits operating across northwest Nigeria he discovered that they were in the process of acquiring anti-aircraft missiles to enable them fight off the military.
Over recent years, heavily-armed bandits have been terrorising the...
