President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday mentioned his administration was dedicated to empowering residents to change into brokers of financial prosperity.
The President mentioned this whereas inaugurating the “Earn from the Soil” marketing campaign throughout the Nationwide Convergence for the Renewed Hope Agenda, on the Banquet Corridor, State Home, Abuja.
Tinubu, represented by Mr Abubakar Momoh, Minister of Regional Growth, mentioned the inauguration of the undertaking Earn from the Soil was a strong declaration that Nigerians had been dedicated to turning non-oil sources into collective prosperity.
He mentioned the undertaking was a meals safety initiative able to reworking subsistence farming into strong, export-driven financial alternatives.
“We’re not looking for conventional support from our companions however strategic assist that transforms our financial ecosystem,” mentioned the President.
He urged native and international buyers to put money into the South-South area, which he mentioned was open for enterprise simply as the entire of Nigeria was prepared for it.
“We’re creating an ecosystem of alternative, innovation:and sustainable progress.
“Our younger folks and ladies specifically should embrace this chance to be self-reliant.
“It is a cost to the younger folks from the South-South: You’re the spine of the transformation that’s about to start right here.
“Your power, creativity, and dedication will drive Nigeria’s financial revolution,” mentioned Tinubu.
He added that the initiative may revolutionise the nation’s agricultural panorama, guaranteeing nationwide meals safety.
“On this clever, the imaginative and prescient of my administration is evident: By 2025, we are going to place Nigeria as a number one agricultural export nation.
“To this finish, my administration will give essential assist to the implementation of the laudable undertaking ‘Earn from the Soil’ to attain its set aims,” mentioned the President.
Tinubu mentioned the revealing of the Nationwide Convergence for the Renewed Hope Agenda was additionally a strategic blueprint for nationwide improvement with the South-South area on the forefront of financial renaissance.
“This area may be very blessed in pure sources past oil and gasoline.
“Aside from its wealthy tradition, the South-South is blessed with extraordinary human capability and abilities in lots of fields of human endeavors which have accomplished our nation proud globally.
“Once we correctly harness the human and materials sources, this area has the potential to embody the transformative potential of Nigeria,” he mentioned.
The Senior Particular Assistant to the President on Group Engagement, South-South, Reward Johnbull, mentioned the Nationwide Convergence for the Renewed Hope Agenda served as a convergence for dialogue, innovation and motion.
“It echoes the spirit of nationwide unity and collaboration, reaffirming our collective resolve to deal with urgent challenges and seize rising alternatives,” she mentioned.
“This convergence is a motion – a name to motion for each particular person right here to play a component in shaping the way forward for not simply the South-South Area alone, however Nigeria at massive.
“To our buyers and enterprise leaders, that is your second to recognise the South-South as a hub of untapped potential.
“Companion with us to unlock alternatives that profit not simply this area or the complete nation, however the entire of Africa and the world at massive,” the Presidential aide mentioned.
NAN