Ayo Akinfe

[1] On August 6 1861, the port of Lagos was seized by the British

[2] On 5 March 1862, the Crown Colony of Lagos was declared, governed directly from London

MANY Nigerian workers living in Lagos have resorted to sleeping in their offices during the week as a result in the incessant rise in transport fares brought about by the scrapping of the national petrol subsidy.

Ayo Akinfe

Among the products, whose manufacture I expect to dominate this industrial city, which will be wholly free of fossil fuels, include:

[1] Solar panels

[2] Electric cars

[3] Turbines

[4] A waste-to-power plant

[5] Biomass boilers

[6] Solar batteries

[7] A faeces-to-power plant

[8] Inverters

[9] An ethanol plant

[10] Windmills

NIGERIANS suffering from the impact of hyper-inflation that has seen the cost of basic food items soar beyond reach could be in for a bit of a respite after recent figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed the prices of yam and tomatoes are falling.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Today, I want us to focus on the Nigerian private sector and discuss its role in getting us out of our current economic nightmare. Too often, we shout government, government, government when sometimes, the issues at stake are not really a public sector matter. It is not the government that is going to come up with innovative ideas that will double our industrial output. A lot of the time, it is some whizzkid in his 20s

AT least six different local government authorities in the UK have announced that they will be raising the Nigerian green-white-green flag on October 1 to mark the country's independence day on Tuesday next week.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] They could have floated a Niger Delta Petroleum Company to bid for oil blocks

[2] They could have built a massive refinery as Aliko Dangote has just done

[3] They could have created a regional company like Odua Investment Industries which could have bought stakes in oil companies like Shell, Total, Agip, Mobil, etc

[4] They could have opened a network of petrol stations across the country

CHELSEA centreback Tosin Adarabioyo has indicated that he may finally be willing to switch his international allegiance at senior level to Nigeria after the head of footballing organisation Team Nigeria UK dropped a hint to that effect.

NIGERIA'S high commission in the UK has set new standards when it comes to the processing of international passports by introducing a new regime under which all applicants who come for biometric data capture get their documents processed that same day.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] On a daily basis, Nigeria witnesses horrific accidents on her roads, many of them involving trailers. Surely, our transport policy has got to be based on moving freight off the road and on to rail to help cut such deaths

[2] No country anywhere on earth has ever industrialised without a modern and efficient railway service. Nigeria’s lack of a modern railway network is a mirror reflection of how unserious we are when it comes to manufacturing