As Ndigbo return to their bases after the Christmas break on planes and luxurious buses please think about how to make 2020 the year in which your industrial prowess doubles the size of Nigeria’s GDP

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Getting Innoson to purchase the rights of The Beetle from Volkswagen so it can manufacture electric cars in Nnewi

(2) Establishing a massive cattle ranch in Abia State to supply the leather for a shoemaking conglomerate in Aba

(3) Getting a pharmaceutical giant like Pfizer to open a plant in Owerri or Orlu

(4) Expanding on Rochas Okorocha’s statue parks across Imo State to quadruple Nigeria’s tourism revenue

(5) Converting the old Enugu Coal Mine into a conference centre, tourist attraction, restaurant hotel, theme park and underground swimming pool

(6) Building the Third Niger Bridge from Illah to Nzam. I want to see something dramatic like the world’s first river crossing that is also an aquarium

(7) Dredging Onitsha and converting it into a massive inland port. I want to see a container port the size of say Felixstowe

(8) Industrialising the Uburu salt lakes. I want to see manufacturing plants there that mass produce salt for the global market

(9) Manufacturing bomb-proof vehicles at the Ohafia military facility. In Afghanistan, the US is now using armoured personnel carriers that are IED-proof

(10) Turning the Umuahia War Museum into an international tourist attraction like the Nazi Concentration Camps. Do you know how many people visit Treblinka every year