Nigeria has to mount concerted pressure on Donald Trump to get his deputy sheriff in sub-Saharan Africa standing on her two feet as America----Akinfe

By Esther Egbe 

 Ayo Akinfe told Amebo Newspaper recently that it will never be great as he plans with an insecure Nigeria over-ran by religious zealots and wracked with kidnapping for all Donald Trump’s wahala, we are least know he has experience of the real estate, housing and tourism businesses. We want to see massive US investment from the sector in Nigeria. President Tinubu should offer tax holidays and 99 year land leases to effect this

Personally, were I in President Tinubu's shoes, I would play to Trump's ego and build a purpose-built town in Nigeria called Birnin Trump with about 500,000 housing units. I would ask for US investment in the project

I would then turn Taraba State into the world’s largest nature reserve with wild animals, hotels, cafes, bars, casinos, resorts, etc. Again, US investors would be the main financiers of this project

Given President Trump’s fanatical following among rightwing evangelical conservative Christians, I would then ask him to create the world’s largest Christian conglomerate in Nigeria. It should aim to have at least 20m shareholders and aspire to have a market capitalisation of at least $1trn. This company should provide religious finance for investment in the Nigerian economy, permeating as many sectors as possible

Given that the Trump Organisation owns about 16 golf courses and resorts worldwide, President Tinubu should ask President Trump to extent his empire to Nigeria. The idea will be to organise major international golf tournaments in Nigeria, wooing the likes of Tiger Woods to become regular participants

President Trump has vast experience when it comes to skyscrapers. We should ask him to woo investors to build at least 50 100-floor such buildings in Nigeria, particularly in Lagos and Abuja

Nigeria is willing to offer the US observer status at the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). This is to facilitate massive US investment in West Africa

 Nigeria is offering free land and five year tax holidays to the big three US automobile manufacturers General Motors, Chrysler and Ford. We want each of them to open assembly and manufacturing plants in Nigeria employing at least 5,000 local people each

The US should set itself an annual target of investing 5bn a year in Nigeria. In return, Nigeria will introduce a Buy America First import policy for finished products

 US power and steel companies will be given unprecedented sweeteners when then invest in Nigeria. If they invest over $10m and employ in excess of 1,000 Nigerians, they will be offered five year tax holidays, 99 year land leases, diplomatic status for their staff and the right to acquire Nigerian citizenship