The Nigerian Diamond Jubilee coincided with an auspicious and divine arrangement with the year in which the first two digits corresponded to the time two; a special and exclusive year – 2020. Next year following this magical style is 2121, which will take a hundred years to evolve.
Nigeria, blessed with world-class human capital, herbal resources, tropical forests, scenic savannah, variety of landscapes, the best climate, no blood or heat, beaches, forest delta, mangrove forest is back in the center of the world’s mainland to succeed in the milestone.
Abuja, the pride and capital of the nation, has intriguing world-class monuments and some of our cities and capitals such as Lagos, Calabar, Port Harcourt, Uyo, Jos, Kano, Asaba, Kastina, Owerri, Enugu among others that have a number of cultural offerings and landscapes of picturesque splendor for travelers, tourists and men.
Due to the uniqueness and uniqueness of the triple score, the Nigerian government and others deserve to burst with enthusiasm and commemorate the instance of their lives, as most of the existing generation might not be there to celebrate nationality in 2121. anniversary is a celebration of two or more barrels; First, for a united country despite vicissitudes, challenges, civil war and other harsh threats, adding centrifugal forces. Some countries, opponents, apocalyptic prophets, cynics and captive critics had predicted the disintegration and balkanization of the Nigerian state before, but our diversity has our strength.
The words of the country anthem are instructive and applicable to the indissolubility of the country: “Rise, compatriots, to the call of Nigeria. Serving our people with love, strength and faith. The paintings of our heroes from beyond will never be in vain. To serve”. with center and strength, a country linked to freedom, peace and unity. “
Second, as a country to economic recessions and mobilize well to flatten the COVID-19 curve during the anniversary year with minimal losses.
Leading Nigeria with its turbulent history right now in the one-year activities commemorating this millennium occasion is the kind that history and destiny invite who is a component of the military’s intervention in the country’s politics and now champion and supporter of Nigeria’s democracy.
Muhammadu Buhari is the guy who fits the cap, Nigeria’s sixth democratically elected president and celebrant leader. In our national trajectory of triumphs, achievements, mistakes and tragedies, we actually have an explanation of why we rejoice. Just as President Buhari joined world leaders in congratulating the United Nations on the 75th birthday of remaining committed to the founders’ aspirations to promote global peace and security, among others, Nigeria has done nothing by tracking national expansion and progress and, therefore, the “past paintings of our heroes and founding fathers has not been in vain. ‘
On October 1, 2015, in Abuja, in his first Independence Day address to commemorate the nation’s 56th anniversary after his inauguration on May 29, 2015, Buhari trusted Nigerians to achieve systemic replacement in all aspects of life, but threw a glove: “We will have to replace our anarchic habits , our attitude towards public service and public trust. We will have to replace our rebellious habit in schools, hospitals, markets, car parks, on the roads, in homes and offices, the forces to save and our nation.
From the outset, President Buhari has introduced his long-range policies and systems to the country to achieve the task of rebuilding the country through concerted efforts, peace, unity and national team spirit for national progress. In truth, it has touched every aspect of the country. the construction of railway systems, roads and other fashionable infrastructures and the front fight against the country’s scourge: corruption, corruption and insecurity.
The 60th Anniversary Birthday Party is a remarkable milestone in the annals of our nation, as it gives us, like others, the opportunity to review our progress and demanding situations and chart the path to our future. our Homeland: from vision to updating and reality, from commitment to the continuous construction of the Nation, from progress to progress.
After crossing the tightrope of political instability and the army’s interregnacy with corrupt and eroded national values, disadvantaged citizens of political freedoms, individual coverage amid ethnic discrimination, Nigeria has relaunched itself in democracy and is regaining its position as a style in Africa, restoring democracy in countries that had suffered the adventurism of the military junta.
Africa’s most populous country of more than two hundred people has evolved as a logo on the continent and internationally, fitting into a bloc of regional forces and a respectable voice in the Committee of Nations. In truth, 60 years is nothing compared to complex democracies. and countries with one hundred or two hundred years of homeland, however, will continue to jump the borders of the country’s construction and development.
In virtually every single sector of national life, Nigeria has made great progress, especially in holding Buhari’s administration, but the government, in its wisdom, opted for a discreet celebration.
According to the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, in a program of occasions organized through the federal government for this anniversary, will be devoid of pomp, brilliance, hum and extravagance, at a joint press convention of the Ministers of Communication and Digital Economy. Isa Pantami and the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs who are members of the 60-year-old Nigerian Trademark Committee, Muhammed blamed the discreet birthday party on the COVID-19 pandemic, which noted that it had imposed safe security protocols in nations around the world.
It noted, however, that the Nigerian Diamond Jubilee would be held one year from 25 September 2020 to 30 September 2021, with various occasions staggered during the outdoor era of activities announced from 25 September to 1 October 2020.
Just as the country has made great progress, others in all human efforts and all walks of life here in Nigeria who lead the world and more can only be achieved in an environment of peace.
The call: First Nigerian female advertising pilot and first to fly an aircraft in Nigeria, Chinyere Kalu, first female helicopter fighter pilot, Tolulope Arotile, Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola, multimillion-dollar business, Folorunso Alakija, Tony Elumelu, among others.
Like Julius Nyerere, an avant-garde thinker and African revolutionary leader, he approached Tanzania’s entire political economy at a time after independence exactly in December 1961 and made unpopular decisions, all in the national interest, as well as Buhari, symbolizing a compromise. , determination and hope, not only for Nigerians, Africans and Africans, but also for others of African descent around the world; dare to move in the direction that other former Nigerian traders feared or feared.
Before entering the political scene on December 31, 1983, politicians at the time the republic had ruined the country’s economy, almost prostrate by looting, major corruption, and poor governance and leadership, Buhari turned to his colleagues for its simple anti-corruption. position, field and ability to rebuild the country however the project was truncated in July 1985 through some other organization of infants and politicians who felt threatened by the politics of their administration, especially the war in the picture.
Again, in 2015, some 30 years later, through Providence, Buhari was led to rebuild Nigeria after decades of decline, endemic interference with almost state politics, decay of infrastructure and stagnation of underdevelopment. , roads and anti-corruption warfare, Buhari has earned a reputation as a leader and the rebirth of a new Nigeria. President Buhari’s life has been completed in impressive and ordinary circumstances. His transformation from a soldier-dictator to a Democrat is incredible as his credentials continue to skyrocket day by day, driving a strong democracy at a time when Nigeria is 60 years old. Nigeria and its strong leadership are vital to Africa, as it is now an example of the country and continent as the “arc of instability. “
The last line of the stanza of the time of the Nigerian anthem speaks of the need for national peace and harmony as a precondition for the construction of the nation and the achievement of “great heights” as a people. In its absence, all national aspirations, hopes and objectives and objectives will be thwarted.
Seen in its sociocultural, security and political context, Nigeria, under Buhari, has recorded many impressive and impressive exploits that have eluded it since independence in 1960. During its current tenure, Buhari had taken steps, most of them ambitious and very visionary. . , they have now placed Nigeria on an irreversible path to an unknown sustainable progression in the country’s history in such a short time. Ambitious movements include border drilling (border closure), power supply, task creation, infrastructure progression, superior source of revenue generation, anti-corruption, increased security and food sufficiency.
In terms of electricity, in an effort to combat the supply of insufficient force, marked by power cuts that stifry economic development, Buhari’s administration reached an agreement with a German company, Siemens, in July 2019 to force supply.
Under the three-phase agreement, Nigerians will gain advantages of 7,000 megawatts of reliable force through the end of 2021 (phase 1), 11,000 megawatts by the end of 2023 (phase 2) and 25,000 megawatts in the third phase.
To put this in perspective, Nigeria’s existing power generation capacity is more than 13,000 megawatts, but an average of 3,400.
megawatts succeed in consumers. In essence, the existing amount of energy that consumers get will more than double until the end of the next
year with the creation of multiplier jobs, driving Nigeria to the next point of commercial and social development.
Buhari, in particular, said: “Our purpose is simply to supply electricity to Nigerian businesses and households. My challenge for Siemens, our investor spouse in distribution companies, Nigeria’s transmission company and the electricity regulator, is difficult to achieve in 7000 megawatts of reliable force through 2021 and 11,000 megawatts through 2023, in stages 1 and 2 respectively. Once these transmission and distribution bottlenecks have been corrected, we will seek, in the third and final phase, to build the generation capacity and overall capacity of the network at 25,000 megawatts ».
The Border Simulation/ Rapid Response Exercise in a different way known as border closure, painful in the short term but successful in the long term, is another ambitious step towards putting Nigeria on the road to food sufficiency and agricultural production, slowing the influx of illicit weapons in the country. improve national security. The border exercise, coded as RAPID RESPONSE EXERCISE, arrives at the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and the Nigerian Immigration Service along with the armed forces, as well as the Nigerian Police and other law enforcement and security agencies. coordinated through the Office of Homeland Security. Advice. Specifically, local production of key commodities such as rice, tomatoes, peppers and poultry products has been boosted and rice smuggling has been reduced to the country to destroy the country’s economy.
On average, factories recently produce 150,000 sacks of rice a day and about 35 million sacks a year. Significantly, border closures have also reduced local fuel intake to 30 and imports of weapons, ammunition, hard drugs and illegal migration.
Training has also made it more difficult for terrorists and other bandits to unload weapons and ammunition while criminal elements no longer enter the country across land borders, resulting in relief in kidnappings, banditry, armed robberies or other violent crimes.
As a result of revenue accumulation, Nigeria’s Customs Service increased its revenue to between five and 8 billion nars consistent with the day, compared to 4. 5 billion naRs consistent with the day before the year.
Another achievement of the administration’s “top level” is the new visa policy introduced in February 2020, which aims to promote the purpose of building a globally competitive economy by assisting in leveraging innovation and specialized skills and the wisdom of the foreigner to complement locals and Nigeria. . to attract foreign direct investment, bring African tourism and integration to life without compromising national security and our territorial integrity.
The progression of government infrastructure is focused on the structure and reorganization of critical infrastructure with more than 50 projects underway in 26 states, adding major projects such as the Second Niger Bridge, the Abuja-Kano Highway, the Owerri Interchange, the Highway Lagos-Ibadan and the Port Harcourt-Enugu Highway unprecedented since Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999.
The popular Lagos-Ibadan line, a rupture with the relics of colonial administration, had been tested for its inauguration. Another novelty is the task creation initiative commonly known as the N-Power programme to empower young Nigerians as well as the special public. programme of works with the great commitment of 774,000 Nigerian elders and young people during a 3-month era with the payment of 20,000 naira per month of allocation to the beneficiary.
The anti-corruption war continued to be lashed by the government, its cardinal program, while the Independent Commission on Corruption and Other Crimes (CIPC) recovered assets worth 81. 23 billion naras with the following breakdown:
– 41. 98 billion nars – Restricted after the revision of the MDA “
Personnel expenses and capital progression budget – 35,011 million nars – Land, buildings and automobiles -. N1. 167bn – TSA Treasury
– N0. 77 billion – Monitoring the recovery of constituency projects – N1,097 billion – Constituency projects completed after the return of marketers to the site
– N$0. 865 billion – Treasury (other accounts) – $1. 113 million – Treasury (another home account) to N$305 billion/ $
CIPC has also established a Constituency Project Monitoring Group, now called the Constituency and Leadership Project Monitoring Group, to monitor the functionality of publicly funded projects, especially projects that have an immediate impact on the media. life of ordinary Nigerians. 424 of those projects were supervised during the reporting period, finishing off a number of abandoned projects and recovering billions of naira from some of the projects. Number of constituencies completed
Projects in education, health, water resources, agriculture and other sectors have more than 400 throughout the country to those monitored in particular.
In addition, more than three hundred contractors who had abandoned projects returned to the site in various parts of the country. In the area of prosecutions, the Commission received 25 convictions in the following year. The Commission won the 1934 requests for the reporting era and concluded investigations into 588 petitions.
105 instances were filed in court and 25 convictions were obtained; the ICC has also intensified the use of administrative sanctions in the public service by periodically sanctioning the names of public servants processed in accordance with the rules in force in the public service62. sanction in 2019.
As a component of its prevention mandate, the Commission reviewed the staff and capital expenditure of 201 MDA, an activity which has led to the limitation of some 42 billion inflated price cards to staff who would otherwise have been diverted through the MDA basically in aptitude and education sectors.
Within the Committee on Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC), approximately 1270 convictions, high-level convictions such as the liquidation and confiscation of P were handed down
For the first time in the annals of governance in the country, decrees were signed through President Muhammadu Buhari. Surprisingly and laudable, Executive Order No. 22, 2020 was signed on May 22, 2020. 10, 2020 for the implementation of the legislative’s monetary autonomy. and state justice for establishments at the state level to stand up for independence and report according to the precepts of democracy enshrined in the 1999 Constitution. This ambitious initiative also gave a touch to the separation of powers, basic precept of government, and s the formula of checks and counterweights.
Committed to governance transparency, the whistleblowing policy has been introduced, which provides citizens with the team to report currency irregularities and theft of public funds, an unprecedented policy that will long contribute to reducing corruption in the public sector. (The portal is available through: https: opentreasury. gov. ng)
COVID-19, the administration’s proactive control of the pandemic, with the president offering intelligent leadership, helped involve the spread of the virus. A month before covid-19 was registered in the country, the federal government announced that it was strengthening surveillance at foreign airports at the entrance to the country, and on January 31, 2020, it established a coronavirus preparation organization to mitigate the effect of the virus if it eventually spreads in the country.
On 9 March, about a week after the country’s index case, President Buhari established the presidential race organization for Covid-19 that promptly took action, banning travelers from 15 countries, with more than 1,000 cases of viruses entering Nigeria and finally all international ones. . Airport. It has provided 10 billion nars to the Lagos state government and a special five billion-card reaction fund to the NCDC to equip, expand and hire workers in its facilities and laboratories across the country.
In addition to several other interventions, the unprecedented approval of Buhari’s administration to inject $1. 2 billion of in-kind loans into the agricultural sector through Brazil’s bilateral government-to-government loan with Deutsche Bank and the Islamic Export Credit Insurance Corporation. The Bank is part of efforts to revolutionize the sector.
With regard to the new budget cycle, it is an honor for those who went through Buhari in collaboration with the National Assembly to bring the country into the 12-month budget cycle (January to December) for the
for the first time since 1999 compared to the March-April or June cycle; however, it is about quantifying the damage that budget postponement has done to the economy over the years. In 2019, Nigeria’s economy grew at an average rate of 2. 2% in the first 3 quarters, up from 1. 7% at the same time in 2018.
In 2019, the main drivers of expansion were data and communications, agriculture, quarry mining and operation, transportation and storage, and manufacturing. In a historic movement, Buhari enacted the amended Deep Offshore Act, which now Nigeria to obtain its fair, valid and equitable percentage of income from its own herbal resources for the first time since 2003.
During all those years, Nigeria was unable to discharge its fair share of oil production revenues because all attempts to replace the law
in the distribution of the source of income failed, but management broke the hex. For the first time under amended law, two hundred million Nigerians will begin to obtain fair compensation for the surplus resources of our lands.
Specifically in regard to the functionality of foreign trade, the smart functionality of the external sector suggests a growing diversification of exports and export earnings with the price of imports in 2019, as in the third quarter, amounting to 11, 6 trillion naira compared to 9. 6. trillion naira at the same time in 2018, which represented an annual expansion rate of 21% between 2018 and 2019, the price of exports rose 2. 5% between 2018 and 2019 as in the third quarter, from 14 trillion from naira to 14. 4 billion naira.
Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves are now $36. 57 billion higher than $33. 42 billion in April 2020 and continue to grow due to the frugality of Buhari’s administration.
However, Nigerians will have to lose the message that only in an environment of peace, tranquility and unity can President Buhari bring more dividends from democracy and prudent governance. Nigerians, to sow the seeds of peace and unity, described “peace as a positive state of calm and tranquility, a state of harmony and interstate, inter-ethnic and intertribal balance. “”In unity, ” he said, “we do not lose anything else our economic chains, indeed in unity, we gain many things . . . in division, we lose a lot of things . . . mutually destructive hostilities between us and therefore exhorted: “Let us remain united; and do it with resolution, fidelity and undeterred. “This is the least Nigerians can give their leader in exchange for a new life and gains after pain.
Another wonderful Nigerian leader, the late President Shehu Shagari, a symbol of unity, left a legacy of peace for Nigerians, ingesting them to follow the path of peace and unity for national development, acting for peace and talking about peace in their lives.
Dr. Nnamidi Azikiwe, the first president of the Republic of Nigeria and a peacemaker and a kind of commitment in the interest of the spirit and unity of the national team, also under pressure for the maintenance of Nigerian unity. Zik’s principles are unequivocal: compromise, negotiation and accommodation. – to alleviate tensions in the country and for nonviolent coexistence. In order for the legacy of our ancestors to continue to dominate, Nigerians and, indeed, their leaders – religious, politicians, traditional, students, etc. – gather around President Buhari to maintain his progression. ‘Next Level’ programme, not in a distressed environment, because the non-unusual intelligent nigerians.