This is Henry Ford driving his first automobile in 1897. Like him, Nigeria needs to ringfence about 10 items and set her private sector a target of manufacturing at least 10m units of them annually

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[1] Farm tractors
[2] Electric automobiles
[3] Solar panels
[4] Mobile phone handsets
[5] Electricity transformers
[6] Railway carriages
[7] iPads
[8] Flatscreen television sets
[9] Roadsweeping machines
[10] Fridge-Freezers

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Northern pressure groups warn Buhari of implications of dropping charges against Nnamdi Kanu

]SEVERAL northern socio-political groups have warned President Muhammadu Buhari against acting on his recent promise to release indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu in a bid to ease the political tension currently bedevilling the nation.

 

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No matter how you cut it both of Nigeria's main parties need mandate whoever is the next president to adopt an interventionist Keynesian approach to the economy

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[1] I have been wracking my brain endlessly as the 2023 elections loom, trying to figure out how Nigeria addresses her $100bn annual infrastructure deficit and alas, I can only come up with one solution - Putinomics!

[2] Putinomics is basically what you could term forced local direct investment (FLDI). It involves the president telling Russia’s wealthy citizens, who we know as the oligarchs, that they must invest in the country’s infrastructure

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Global remittances poised to grow by 7.3% during 2021 as diasporans recover from pandemic fallout

REMITTANCES to low and middle income countries like Nigeria have been projected to grow by about 7.3% during the course of 2021 to about $589bn as the global economy starts to witness a return to normality in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

 

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Nigerian railway programme grounds to a halt as staff strike over poor working conditions

NIGERIA'S ongoing rail development programme is at risk of being derailed as Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) workers have embarked on a three day warning strike to protest low pay and poor working conditions.

 

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Sanwoolu says Lagos will need to invest about $15bn in infrastructure over the next five years

GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwoolu has revealed that Lagos will require about $15bn over the next five years for infrastructural investment to meet the twin challenges of a growing population and limited geographical space.

 

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NFF starts interviewing for Eagles job as it tells Rohr they can no longer guarantee his security

NIGERIAN Football Federation (NFF) officials have told Super Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr that they can no longer guarantee his physical security and as such he should resign his position as soon as possible.

 

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London high commission to begin issuing new 10-year Nigerian enhanced e-passport

NIGERIANS living in the UK will be able to obtain 10-year passports as from Tuesday November 23 when the London high commission unveils the new enhanced e-passport which comes with 64 pages.

 

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Post-coronavirus African Development Doctrine 2021

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[1] As from 2022 inwards, every African nation is compelled to produce an least half of what they consume

[2] If any African nation fails to produce 50% of all its needs, the African Union should be empowered to merge it with one of its neighbours

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BUA Group chairman laments the high cost of transporting goods within Nigeria

SUGAR mogul Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu has decried the cost of transporting goods within Nigeria saying the limited transportation facilities  add dramatically to the cost of doing business and ultimately to the price of consumer goods.

 

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