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Today, I have directed the opening of Nigeria's land and air borders with the Republic of Niger and the lifting of other sanctions against Niger Republic with immediate effect in compliance with the decisions of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government at its extraordinary summit on February 24, 2024, in Abuja where we had agreed to lift economic sanctions against the Republic of Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea.
I have also directed that the following sanctions imposed on the Republic of Niger be lifted immediately:
(1) Closure of land and air borders between Nigeria and Niger Republic, as well as ECOWAS no-fly zone on all commercial flights to and from Niger Republic.
(2) Suspension of all commercial and financial transactions between Nigeria and Niger, as well as freeze of all service transactions, including utility services and electricity to Niger Republic.
(3) Freeze of assets of the Republic of Niger in ECOWAS Central Banks and freeze of assets of the Republic of Niger, state enterprises, and parastatals in commercial banks.
(4) Suspension of Niger from all financial assistance and transactions with all financial institutions, particularly EBID and BOAD.
(5) Travel bans on government officials and their family members.
In addition to the above, I have also approved the lifting of financial and economic sanctions against the Republic of Guinea.
#Agbadovolution: Dear @NGRPresident@officialABAT; Your Agbado Constituencies are Battling. Most Nigeria Farmers Farm in The Raining Season, Preparation is Late Already and It is Coming Without Corresponding Commitment, Dedication and Drive From The Ministries and Agencies Responsible For Mobilizing Nigerians to The Farm.
They Are Behaving as Though Nigeria Has So Much Food and Don't Need to Battle as Though Our Lives Depend on it and It Does Depend on it.
The Opportunities to Send a Clear Message to Nigerians That You are Serious About Food Security needs some element of House on Fire Approach, But The Confused Nature of Your Team is Where Nigerians are Worried.
Let Me Give you an Insight into What can get Nigerians Talking and Believing Now and Why You Need Your Government to Place Agbado, Cassava, Yam, Livestock, Fishery and Poultry in a Level Where it Becomes a National Progressive Platforms for Real Socio Economic Renaissance.
1. Starting From 12 States and the FCT Immediately, Select two States Each by Geopolitical Zones Capable of The Massive Production of Food Nigeria Needs Now, Identify 13 Industrial Scale Farm Estates, Agricultural Hubs, Grassroot Farm Cooperatives and Associations, Farm Industrial Parks, RUGAs etc in Phase One from each of Those States.
2. Using The Two States Per zone as a Launchpad for The Zone, Announce A Temporary Initiative to Employe Poor Nigerians to Farming Jobs in Those 12 States and the FCT Using The Industrial Farms as The Vehicle to Achieve This Goal.
Mandate The Central Farm Estates and Their Associates Linked Across The GeoPolitical Zones to Employ 100,000 Casual Farmers who Will Earn 25,000 Months during The Wet Season. That Will Be 200,000 Nigerians per Zone and 1,300,000 Casual Jobs Immediately.
3. Let the Ministry of Agriculture and All Relevant Government Agencies Mandated With Providing Food Security Relocate From the FCT to The Fields All Across Nigeria.
Ensure The Nigeria Armed Forces Design a Program and Strategy to Secure The Farm Estates and Secure the Farmers.
The Agro Rangers of The NSCDC and The Nigeria Police Must Be Equally Engaged to Provide Security in All 13 Central Locations and All Other Locations Nationwide.
4. The Government Must then Fund These Farm Estates with a Minimum of N10billion and a Maximum of N100billion Depending on the Capacity of the Farm Estate and their Affiliates in Their Zones.
The Funds Must Come With 5% interest Rates, Zero Month Repayment, No Collateral outside the Existing Farm Estates, Freezing of Associate Debts, Centralization of Field Planning, Implementation, Evaluation and Monitoring That Also Includes the involvement of the EFCC and ICPC as the Project Kick Off.
The EFCC Must stop Coming After the Money Has Been Stolen, It Must Start From The Stage of disbursement and Monitor Implementation but Not become an Enemy to the Process With Unnecessary Bureaucratic Bottlenecks.
5. A Localization of Mechanisation initiative must also be adapted that Focuses Primarily on Employing At Least 1,000 Welders, Carpenters, Fabricators, Nurses, Doctors, Agronomists, Agricultural Extension Workers and Other Skill Workers Who Will Be Tasked to Design and Build What Rural Farming Nigeria Needs.
Tasked to Provide Primary Healthcare Support to the 1,300,000 Farmers Nationwide to Be Engaged.
Mandated to Provide Agricultural Extension Services and Support to These Farm Estates and Plan For the Dry Season Farming Beginning Also Immediately These Program Starts.
6. All Seeds, Chemical and Fertilizer Research and Production Companies/Institution Nationwide Will Be Expected to Send in at Least 10 Representatives.
Dear Mr President! @NGRPresident@officialABAT
I Support Your Borrowing, But I Hate Your Unconscious Attempt At Destroying The Nigeria Economy To Please The IMF/World Bank?
What Does It Mean When Your Minister of Finance Says 'We have Done Enough Reforms For Now And deserve to be rewarded With This New $1.5billion From The Washington Consensus?'
The JAGABAN BORGU; So Many Ministers in Your Team are sleep walking and Doing Nothing With the Goldmine Capable of growing Nigeria from Within and Making Nigeria Work.
I am Particularly Troubled by The Low Hanging Fruit of;
1. Agricultural Productivity.
2. Solid Minerals Mining;
3. Real Manufacturing; Processing With Existing Battling Nigeria Companies Whose Database Can Be Easily Evolved.
Unfortunately, Those Around the President Don't Seem to understand the Power of Agricultural Productivity and That is Why I Keep Speaking and Shouting Because It is the Most Complete National Growth Sector of Any and It is All Inclusive When We talk Agriculture!
1. Crop Cultivation;
2. Livestock Management;
3. Poultry Management;
4. Fishery;
5. Plantation;
6. Rural Infastructure for Value Addition;
7. Rural Healthcare For The Agricultural Manpower;
8. Machine Fabrication and Manufacturing to Support Agricultural Productivity;
9. Pharmaceutical Industries From Agricultural Productivity;
10. Information and Communication Technology Grows From Agricultural Productivity;
11. Micro, Macro Technology and Productivity Innovation Arising From Agricultural Productivity;
12. Agro Tourism Industry Raising Agriculture that Projects Our Rural Socio Cultural Assets and Goldmine.
13. I Can Go on and on and on!
Dear Mr. President; Nigeria Does not Need Ministries Like Humanitarian That Waste Resources on everything but the Poor. Nigeria Needs Real Productive Farm Projects in Rural Communities that can Be your Productive Engines Driving Manufacturing, Productivity and Processing.
Please Seek Options That Work and Not Options That Pleases The IMF/World Bank but Will Ultimately Kill Nigeria, We Know What and Where Thid road Leads. IBB SAP 1.0 is Still Fresh in the Minds of Reasonable Nigerians, Don't Create Asiwaju SAP2.0.
Think;
1. Awolowo Cooperatives;
2. Rural Prime Private Anchors;
3. Develop Projects Like the Isrealis Kibbutz;
4. Research and Evolve The Asia and Chinese Farm Villages Models;
5. Locate Current and Active Farm Estates in Nigeria and Make them Productive;
6. Seek Strategic Game Reserves and Historical Agro Tourism Locations in Nigeria and Make Them Active. Declare Yankari Game Reserves, The Obudi Ranch and Many Others are National Agricultural Productivity and Historical Sites of Value and Make them Forex Earners.
7. Seek Local Solutions to Real Estate Building Like Mats, Woods, Bamboo, Rafter and build Industries from Those.
8. Focus on simply Irrigation Solutions that Creates Rain Fed Dams and Turn all of Rural Nigeria into an All Year Productivity Hub.
9. Evolve and Incentivise Tree Plantation as a Means of Intervention For Rural Nigeria That is also Productive For Massive Earnings on Cash Crops.
10. I Can Go on and On and On!
The Solutions Your Team in Seeking in The IMF/World Bank is in Nigeria and The More They Waste Time, The More Hungry and Angry Nigerians Will Get.
Agricultural Productivity is The Silver Bullet, Because it has the Capacity For Massive National Industrialization. It is the Greatest Pursuit For The Nation right Now.
Meanwhile, which Industrial Rivals The Mutating Capacity of Agrarian Industrialization?
Dear Mr. President. You Need to declare a Proper Emergency on Food Security. So Far, Nothing is Being Done that Scratches The Survive on what Must Be Done in Nigeria to;
1. Provide Food Security;
2. Which Will Lead to Socio Economic Stability, Cultural Survivability, Political Nationalism and Defiant Patriotism;
3. That Can Turn Rural Nigeria into a Massive Industrial Productivity Hub and deny the Enemies of Nigeria The Recruiting Pool The Currently Have;
Earlier today, I had a productive interaction with my guests at the Presidential Villa, Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal, the Global Chairman of Bharti Airtel , Dr. Segun Ogunsanya, the CEO of Airtel Africa Group and other members of the Airtel board.
My door will remain open to investors willing to commit resources to this government's development mission of economic empowerment, growth, jobs and opportunity for all Nigerians but most especially our talented and enterprising young people.
This afternoon, I enjoyed an invigorating meeting with the leadership of a few of the most prominent national student bodies in the country. Representatives of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), the National Association of University Students (NAUS), the National Association of Colleges of Education Students (NACES) and the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) were in attendance. Their support of the Access to Higher Education Act as well as this government’s pro-active approach to the fuel subsidy issue was most welcome.
On my part, I reiterated the administration’s commitment to youth empowerment and social justice through meaningful inclusion in governance, affordable access to quality education, and the creation of gainful opportunities across all sectors of the economy.