Despite its over 100 years’ existence as a
nation, President Muhammadu Buhari on
Thursday said the situation in the country
is like Nigeria was starting all over again.
He said there was a time in the history of
the country that there was so much money
that successive governments took things
for granted.
According to a statement by his Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi
Adesina, the President spoke while
receiving Ambassador Nasser Bourita, a
Special Envoy of King Mohammed VI of
Morocco, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said his administration was only
“managing” because of the sharp drop in
price of oil.
Buhari said that was why the Federal
Government was in a hurry to see projects
take off in the agricultural sector to
enhance food security and create jobs for
teeming unemployed youths.
“For us in Nigeria, it is like starting all over
again. There was a time we had so much
money and took things for granted. But
with the fall in the international price of
oil, we are now managing,” the President
said.
Buhari welcomed the plan by Morocco to
establish a fertilizer plant in Nigeria, which
would not only serve the country, but the
entire West African sub-region.
The envoy, who is also Minister Delegate
for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, said
his country had developed strategy to deal
with religious extremism, and had large. Source: Punch
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