PRESIDENT TINUBU SAYS NIGERIA HAS REQUISITE AND SUFFICIENT MANPOWER TO SPUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 08-12-23
By Sadiq Aminu President Bola Tinubu says Nigeria has the requisite and sufficient manpower to spur development of the economy.
He stated this in Abuja while receiving a report titled, Industrialisation, Energy Security, and Climate Change: Issues, Challenges and Prospects, submitted by the Senior Executive Course 45 of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS.
Commending the report’s wealth of research and recommendations, President Tinubu said the report would be treated with all seriousness.
He told them that they had fished out the issues, noted the challenges, recommended constructive solution, and showed the roadmap to achieve sustainable development goals for the country.
”Who says that we do not have it as a country? Commitment to research and development; that high level of inquisitiveness, the manpower needed is here.”
President said his administration would review the document and integrate salient recommendations into ongoing policies and programmes within the Renewed Hope Agenda.
The Director-General of the Institute, Professor Ayo Omotayo, had said that during the ten-month period of the course, participants engaged in a series of lectures and seminars, brainstorming sessions, as well as study tours to 13 countries and seven states in Nigeria.
He said the Senior Executive Course 45 comprised of 97 participants drawn from federal and sub-national governments, security and intelligence agencies, civil society, private sector, and labour unions.
”As an apex institution for policy research and strategic studies in Nigeria, the National Institute is entrusted with a solemn duty of charting the course of our national development.
”Our mandate encompasses the rigorous analysis of complex policy issues, the formulation of forward-thinking strategies, and the cultivation of visionary leaders capable of steering Nigeria towards a prosperous and sustainable future,” Prof. Omotayo said.