Surely this Niger Republic crisis has got Nigeria’s ruling elite to start thinking the unthinkable as we may never get another opportunity like this in our lifetime

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Build an African giant of a nation with a landmass of about 3m square kilometres. This will include about 800,000 sq kilometres of Sahara Desert

[2] We are looking at a socialist secular nation with a population of 1bn people where power is devolved to the federating units

[3] An economic giant with a gross domestic product of about $30trn putting it in sharp competition with China, India, the US and a United States of Europe

[4] Let us aim for an annual budget of about $5trn with a 99% literacy rate

[5] Aim to have a standing army of about 10m men. One of its main tasks will be policing the Sahara Solar Farm, which will be the greatest wonder of all the wonders of the world

[6] Aspire to have an economy that accounts for about 20% of global industrial output

[7] Build a nation that accounts for about 25% of global agricultural output

[8] I dream of a nation that generates 50% of the world’s solar power. Our solar desert will make the Pyramids of Egypt, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Colossus of Rhodes, the Statue of Zeus, etc, look like child’s play

[9] I want a country that serves as the spiritual home of the negro. If blacks people are maltreated anywhere, we will organise an immediate evacuation

[10] Once every two years, we will host Festac in a 300,000 seater stadium. This is a nation that will ultimately spearhead living on the moon!