President Bola Tinubu on Saturday expressed his sturdy willpower to confront Nigeria’s issues, which he described as various and deep-rooted.
Tinubu famous that his options would come by means of agriculture, which stays a strategic sector for diversifying Nigeria’s economic system.
The president said this on Saturday in Umuahia on the event of the twelfth convocation ceremony of the Michael Okpara College of Agriculture, Umudike.
He added that this was why his authorities elevated the variety of agricultural universities within the nation.
Tinubu, who was represented by the Director (Extension), the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Meals Safety, Dr. Deola Lordbanjou, stated, “Our nation’s issues are various and deep-rooted, however we’re strongly decided to confront them. Agriculture stays a strategic sector for diversifying our economic system, disproportionately depending on oil. Nigeria actually wants the strong help of her agricultural scientists and specialists as strategic sport changers to finish starvation on this nation. Consequently, the federal government elevated the variety of agricultural universities within the nation. Your technical abilities and experience will proceed to be required till we attain the Promised Land of meals safety.
“This administration is conscious of the distinctive function that high quality schooling can play in growing women and men of character who’re residents devoted to the service of their fatherland. Our issues as a nation are quite a few, multi-faceted, and sophisticated. Good schooling is important to know the complexity of the issues and develop progressive and efficient methods to deal with the socio-economic and political points confronting our nation.
“Believing that we should assure entry to schooling as a obligatory instrument to combat poverty and foster development, this administration has arrange the Nationwide Training Mortgage Fund (NEL Fund) to grant pupil loans on beneficiant phrases. This people-orientated initiative is not going to considerably alleviate the sufferings of Nigerian college students and their dad and mom.”
The president added that the institution and progressive enhance of specialized universities of agriculture within the nation was effectively thought out and correctly deliberate to make the nation self-sufficient in meals manufacturing.
“As a nation, we’re trying as much as the schools to innovatively drive the transformation of our agricultural sector to attain meals safety, diversify the economic system, and broaden the bottom for industrialisation. The potential for agricultural investments in our nation is great, contemplating the range of our soils, crops, livestock, and local weather.
“Regardless of our giant inhabitants, I really feel assured that we are able to present our wants for staple meals from native manufacturing. We are able to shortly and considerably cut back our dependence on imported meals gadgets with strong willpower,” he added.
Tinubu additional inspired personal organisations and public-spirited people to affix arms with the federal government and Nigeria’s frontline establishments to attain the dream. He additionally solicited help from Nigerian universities of agriculture in forming partnerships and linkages to scale up agricultural analysis findings with a win-win goal.
The President stated, “The socio-economic and political issues that this administration inherited are step by step being addressed. Nonetheless, we acknowledge the difficulties our residents are going by means of. We’ve got accepted the problem of confronting our issues.
“With nice willpower, we’re vigorously evolving sound insurance policies, swiftly fine-tuning and strategically re-aligning them to deal firmly with the basis causes of the issues. There aren’t any simple fixes for these issues, however don’t doubt that our folks will gladly rejoice when these measures are carried out.
“The whole deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector, painful as it might be at first, is the important thing to our power safety and a catalyst for funding in that sector. Wholesome competitors would in the end be to the benefit of the buyer and without charge fo the poor. We’re dedicated to those measures and to the general improvement of our nation.
“The burden of insecurity remains to be with us, however our safety companies and armed forces, with the federal government’s energetic help, aren’t giving the legal components any respite. Our forces are decided to finish banditry and all types of insecurity in Nigeria, they usually have the sturdy help of my administration. We should safe each inch of our nation so law-abiding residents can go about their lawful enterprise unhindered by worry.”
The President assured of the federal government’s continued help in enhancing Nigerian tertiary establishments’ instructing and studying infrastructure and pleaded, stating, “Equally, please reciprocate the federal government’s effort by making certain a peaceable and conducive surroundings for correct instructing and sensible studying.”.
Earlier, the Vice Chancellor, Michael Okpara College of Agriculture Umudike, MOUAU Prof. Maduebibisi Ofo Iwe, highlighted the key challenges of the college, together with paucity of funds, provision of important facilities, state of entry roads, and japa syndrome of educated workers, whereas the state governor, Alex Otti, represented by his Deputy, Ikechukwu Emetu, stated his administration is dedicated to enhancing supportive studying environments.
The Professional-Chancellor, Comrade Fidelis Edeh, assured the college group, stating, “Our Governing Council would quite attempt to uphold accountability and demonstrable ends in Council affairs.”