Tinubu took a team of 20 leading Nigerian businessmen to the G20 summit in India. When he gets back he needs to take 20 leading evangelical clergymen to the Vatican to see how Christian finance works and implement a plan like this

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Legislation must be passed compelling all clergymen to donate their privates jets to the state to be used as part of the fleet for a new national carrier. Nigeria Air did not take off because we did not have a budget to purchase the required aircrafts. It is unpatriotic to be flying around in a private jet when your country cannot afford an airline

[2] There should be a moratorium on the building churches and mosques across Nigeria. Over the next 10 years, Christian organisations should instead build housing estates, schools, libraries, clinics, roads and electricity power plants. It is naive to think that you can spend private funds willy nilly without consequences. Every dollar spent on a church, mosque, aso ebi, on pilgrimage, in Dubai, on an owambe, etc is a dollar of investment taken away from infrastructure

[3] As things stand, we need to invest $140bn in infrastructural projects annually. Given that our national budget is only about $30bn, organised religion must commit to meeting at least half of the costs by investing $70bn a year in infrastructure. Across Europe, most of their cathedrals, shipping ports, town centres, museums, etc were built by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages

[4] Islamic Finance and Christian Finance must be used for the widespread building of power plants across Nigeria. The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs and the Christian Association of Nigeria must each commit to generating 1,000MW of electricity a year. All those shouting government, government, government, are not economically literate. Our faith houses have more capital at their disposal than the federal government

[5] Both the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs and the Christian Association of Nigeria should place a 10 year moratorium on pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia and Israel. It is sheer madness to be boosting the tourist income of those nations while we wallow in poverty. Instead our Christians and Muslims should pray at home

[6] The Christian Association of Nigeria should pass an edict making sure 25% of church proceeds are used for running costs, 25% go towards social and community programmes and 50% go into the investment arm of the church

[7] Nigeria's wealthy pentecostal and evangelical pastorprueners need to merge their financial operations into one giant conglomerate called Man of God Plc. It should be a multinational floated on the Lagos, London and New York stock exchanges and be a major operator in sectors vital to the Nigerian economy like oil & gas, construction, manufacturing, automobile assembly, steel production, food processing, agriculture, aquaculture and animal husbandry

[8] Man of God Plc should be the bellweather of our economy, kind of like Tata Industries in India, Phillips in Holland, General Motors in the US and San Miguel in The Philippines. It should seek to employ at least 10m people nationwide and with regards to animal husbandry, this giant called Man of God Plc should come up with an economic blueprint to resolve the Fulani herdsmen saga

[9] All churches and mosques should set up dedicated power and railway funds. All future tithes and zakat payments over the next five years should go into these funds with the aim of generating and distributing 10,000MW of electricity and a 6,000km double gauge railway network by 2025

[10] All Christians and Muslims must eschew the self-indulgence of titles. Vanity is one of our biggest problems as a people. It is known to fuel corruption, so as part of our drive to bring about humility in our nation, titles such as Alhaji, Jerusalem Pilgrim, Grand Khadi, Sheikh, Apostle, General Overseer, Evangelist, etc will be dropped in favour of the ordinary Mr and Mrs