Browsing: National development plan

When I first saw the headline yesterday, I thought it was a joke. All papers reported that President Buhari has just launched a long-tern national development plan three weeks before leaving the office he had spent eight years in. I read the story and he is indeed proposing an economic governance plan for the country until the year 2050. For the first two of his eight years in power, he refused to even appoint economic advisers. When he eventually appointed a team and they proposed a plan – the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), he refused to implement it on the grounds that the Central Bank Governor, a nice man, has been giving him trillions of Naira through “ways and means” so he does not need to take any tough economic decisions.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the private sector is expected to invest N298 trillion or about 86 per cent of…

Nigeria’s vice president Yemi Osinbajo has said that the recently approved 2021 – 2025 National Development Plan will usher a…