I hope Tinubu, Atiku and Obi can agree on the details of an Anglo-Nigerian Trade Pact which they should get Rishi Sunak to sign up to as he grapples with the post-Brexit collapse

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As the UK ponders over what kind of future she is going to have in the 22nd century, it is unfortunate that African nations are fast asleep. Many Britons for instance opted to leave the European Union (EU) because they erroneously thought that by doing so they will return to the glorious Rule Britannia era when their country ruled the oceans and colonised two thirds of the world

[2] Clearly, Britain is reeling from the effects of Brexit and no longer having the safety net of the EU, Rishi is expected to pull a rabbit out of a hat and stem the economic collapse

[3] There will be lots of redundancies in the UK post-Brexit as companies like Nissan and Toyota shut down their British plants and move to Europe for access to the common market. Nigeria should be wooing these firms to come and set up shop in Nigeria. I actually think Babajide Sanwoolu should be leading the charge. He should dedicate his new Lekki Industrial Estate to the Brexit fallout. At the moment, 95% of all foreign direct investment in Nigeria goes to Lagos, so Mr Sanwoolu has to take charge of the situation

[4] In his negotiations with the British, Governor Sanwoolu should remind them that they never paid Nigeria reparations for slavery, colonial conquest or the large number of her service men and women who died fighting for the British Empire in the two world wars. In the US for instance, it was estimated that the most economically sound estimate of reparations to former slaves should be between $5.9trn and $14.2trn. This was never paid but in our case, the British never even conceded they owed us anything. I think Brexit offers us this opportunity to make such a claim

[5] Given that Britain wants to relive its glorious past, I think we should remind them of their ugly sins gone by as well. They were the prime movers behind the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade for which about 20m Africans were plucked from their homeland. Is it not ironic that a nation that built itself up moving millions of people from one part of the world to another suddenly hates immigration?

[6] I must confess my blood boils when I listen to black Brexiteers. These Uncle Tom’s are the worst type of house negroes to have ever set foot on the planet. Do they not know that these UKIP-voting xenophobes who hate Eastern Europeans, hate them even more? As happened in Nazi Germany, you deal with those you despise one by one. Communists, trade unionists, Jews, Slaves and all non-Aryans. By the time the concentration camp is built, there will be room for everyone. Once the Eastern Europeans are gone, it will be time to change Brexit into Blackexit

[7] I have long argued that the World Economic Forum (Wef) should impose foreign direct investment (FDI) targets on industrialised nations if it is genuine about helping Africa grow. Unless the Wef can get African economies to grow by double digit figures, all this noise about assisting the continent is patronising hot air. Only compulsory FDI will give the large economies like Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia and DR Congo 10% year-on-year annual GDP growth rates over the next decade? Anything short of this is just big big grammar

[8] As is always the case, Africans are silent when the rest of the world is seizing opportunities that are there for the taking. After World War Two, countries like the US, Argentina, Australia and Brazil snapped up some of the finest German brains. Some even pardoned ex-Nazis because of what they brought to the table. Nigeria should be hovering around the UK like a vulture now but sadly, we are once again fast asleep

[9] Rishi Sunak is not a magician, so I do not see how he is going to get the UK out of this crisis before a general election. What Nigeria should be doing is offering an alternative overseas market for British goods

[10] In Nigeria, we have an annual infrastructural deficit of $100bn and simply need to find a way to raise that cash. If we had 10 British firms investing $1bn each in Nigeria annually, creating local jobs and remitting say $10bn back home to the UK annually, it would be a win-win situation for everyone