As a mark of respect to the Queen, President Buhari should me proposing this new bilateral British-Nigerian Clean Energy Initiative 


Ayo Akinfe 

[1] British firms will be given tax holidays to build a 853km wind farm along Nigeria’s Atlantic coastline 

[2] British firms will be given tax holidays to build four mega solar farms in Borno, Yobe, Katsina and Zamfara states 

[3] Nigeria will open the world’s largest solar panel manufacturing plant in Sokoto with British investors invited to take a 50% stake in the venture 

[4] Nigeria will build a waste-to-power plant in Lagos. British investors who participate in it will get a 10 year tax holiday 

[5] Nigeria will seek to attract British automobile manufacturers to open electric car assembly plants in Nnewi, making it the world’s Electric Detroit 

[6] British food processors will be given tax holidays and invited to open ethanol plants in Nigeria 

[7] British agricultural firms will be given five year tax holidays to invest in tree planting as a means of replenishing our tropical rain forest 

[8] Nigeria will aggressively woo steel firms to open scrap metal processing plants across the country. British firms will get land leases and tax rebates if they invest in Nigeria 

[9] Nigeria will woo railway companies to build new lines in a bid to reduce the number of cars on our roads. Again, investors will get 10 year holidays

[10] British agricultural firms who plant trees across our northern border to combat desertification will also get 10 year tax holidays and 99 year land leases

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