10 things we need to do if we want to recapture the glory of 1949 when our national football team The UK Tourists were feted like royalty across Britain with the red carpet rolled out for them in every city

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Increase the size of our gross domestic product to about $5trn

[2] Become the world's largest manufacturer of electronic automobiles

[3] Take a cue from India who pride themselves on being the Pharmacy of the World and become the largest manufacturer of tropical drugs

[4] Overtake Vietnam as the world's largest manufacturer of telephone handsets

[5] Expand our cocoa production and on the back of that get the global chocolate industry to be centered in Lagos

[6] Given our penchant for passion, there should be at least six Nigerian designer clothing brands out there competing with the likes of Luis Vuitton and Gucci

[7] We must aim to win the Fifa World Cup in our lifetime

[8] We must try and leapfrog the Japanese and Chinese when it comes to high speed trains. Let us make the Abuja to Lagos Bullet Train the fastest in the world

[9] No nation on earth has yet build a windmill farm along the entire length of its coastline. I look forward to a Calabar to Badagry wind farm that will generate about 20,000MW of electricity

[10] It is only a matter of time before someone manufactures an aircraft or rocket that travels at the speed of light. I would like to see the likes of Dangote Indistries and Innoson Motors join forces to achieve this