Nigeria’s 2023  elections should simply be about addressing the country’s top 10 problems with solutions in place by 2027

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Dealing with insecurity 

[2] Generating, distributing and transmitting 50,000MW of electricity 

[3] Producing at least 50m tonnes of steel annually 

[4] Handing the running of the economy back to the federating units. Our governors need to be made the managers of the economy

[5] Building urban underground metros in Lagos and Abuja 

[6] Linking all 774 local government areas together via a national railway network 

[7] Building at least four 2m tonne capacity ports along our 853km Atlantic coastline

 
[8] Diversifying our economy. Crude oil accounts for about 95% of government revenue today. We need to reduce that to about 25% by 2027 

[9] Reconverting all those industrial warehouses which are now churches back into factories. Nigerians spent too much time in faith houses and too little time engaged in productive endeavours

[10] Radically expanding our tax network. Wr have one of the lowest tax-to-GDP ratios in the world at just 6%. Nigerians are actually grossly under-taxed, which is why the government has no revenue to spend on social programmes