As we look to bridge the gap between what we produce and what we consume, the emphasis has to be on patenting unique products like a special air conditioned bus stop booth that can be exported en mass to help Nigeria generate foreign exchange

Ayo Akinfe

Here are 10 products I would like to see patented in Nigeria during the course of 2025:

[1] Air conditioned bus stop booth

[2] A pepper grinding and corn milling machine

[3] A cocoa shelling machine

[4] A double decker molue that can rival Volvo buses in terms of quality

[5] Double decker railway carriages

[6] An egusi shelling machine

[7] A machine that removes maize from the cob

[8] A cassava and yam peeling machine

[9] An electronic yam pounding machine

[10] A plug-in cooker that makes eba, lafun, amala, fufu, etc

we need to manufacture our way out of poverty as a nation:

I am not aware of one Nigerian device that is globally patented. Do we actually know how much we can generate by licensing patents to manufacturers elsewhere so they can make machines we have designed?

We are always blaming the government for our woes but bad leadership does not stop ordinary Nigerians from submitting ideas to the Patent Office. With a nation of 200m people, our Patent Office should be so overworked, their backlog should go back two years and they should have branches in each of our 36 states.

Ayoakinfe@gmail.com