OpeOluwani Akintayo Lagos — Engr. Justice Opelamina Derefaka; Technical Adviser on Gas Business & Policy Implementation to the Minister of…
Browsing: economic diversification
“Implementation of the plan will be driven by strong political will and strong collaboration between the public and private sectors especially in the areas of Agriculture, Manufacturing, Solid Minerals, Services and Infrastructure.”
“I am here not only to explore investment opportunities and consolidate our existing business relations, but also to congratulate your Excellency for your victory in the last general elections,” said Dangote.
“Even now, Nigeria exports crude oil and imports petroleum products. When your economy is based on one volatile commodity, you cannot determine the price,” he said.
The Vice President said the country would notwithstanding, take as much as it can from the industry to quickly diversify her economy.
Udoma said, “We must use this crisis to introduce measures that will truly diversify the Nigerian economy by ensuring that the non-oil sector generates enough foreign currency earnings to drive the economy even without any crude oil earnings.”
Dr. Onu said Nigeria needed to exploit more of the energy resources it was blessed with to allow for an enhanced industrialization process.
Mr. Obama made the commendation when he met with Mr. Buhari on the sideline of the ongoing 71st UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
Mohammed noted that, “We have a very defective economic structure, which depended largely on a single platform of crude oil and fuel.”
He noted that, “One of the key reasons why we are in recession is the fact that we lost about 60 per cent of our revenue due to the vandalism of the pipelines on the Niger/Delta and we lost almost 40 per cent of the gas.