President Bola Tinubu announced yesterday that Nigeria’s entire financial system is set for re-engineering to achieve inclusivity, effectiveness, and efficiency.
Development policies, according to him, will only find full relevance in people’s lives through inclusivity, ownership, and sustainability.
Tinubu, who spoke at a meeting with governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said Nigeria, is too blessed with human, natural, and material resources for it to be struggling with a dearth of quality infrastructure, quality education, and world-class health facilities.
“We have no reason to be poor. Looking back on where we are coming from, where we have been, why we are facing infrastructural decay, a lack of quality and comprehensive education, as well as a lack of health facilities. We are not a cursed country, but blessed,” the President said.
President Tinubu asked the governors to come up with a framework that would implement the school-feeding programme more comprehensively and successfully across all states of the federation, taking into consideration the peculiarities of each locality, but working towards having all children in school.
He said: “We have children of school age who are out of school. The way to promote education is to get all governors, including the opposition governors, involved in the school-feeding programme. Please, take it seriously.
“We should not measure the children as statistics. We should measure their return to classrooms as our achievement. We should see economic growth in terms of value and empowerment. We should set up a committee to look into the methods. I am ready to invest in school feeding.”
