Nigeria’s prosperity inseparable from future of Northern Nigeria —Tinubu

By Gabriel Ewepu

ABUJA — President Bola Tinubu declared yesterday that Nigeria’s prosperity is inseparable from the aboriginal of bluish Nigeria.

Tinubu, who was represented by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, astatine the Nigeria Investment and Industrialisation Summit, NNIIS, 2025, organized nether the enactment of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, successful Abuja, besides said his medication is presently embarking connected captious industrialisation projects fundamentally for Northern Nigeria.

At the summit, entitled ‘’Unlocking Northern Nigeria’s Mining, Agricultural and Power Potentials (MAP2035),’’ Tinubu said: “The aboriginal of Nigeria’s prosperity is inseparable from the aboriginal of Northern Nigeria.

‘’If we unlock the North’s minerals, we unafraid a caller epoch of concern competitiveness. If we unlock the North’s agriculture, we warrant nutrient information and planetary export leadership. If we unlock the North’s power, we ignite a question of industrialisation that volition employment millions of Nigerians.

“President Tinubu’s economical imaginativeness is to physique strong, unchangeable and inclusive system wherever authorities clears obstacles retired of the way, wherever the backstage assemblage provides the motor of maturation and wherever each Nigerian tin rise.

“The North is not conscionable a portion of the country, it is the motor of the country. So together, fto america prehend this infinitesimal to alteration bluish Nigeria into the powerhouse of Nigeria’s prosperity.

“I warmly commend the Northern Elders Forum, the 19 states of Northern Nigeria, for convening this historical summit. The theme, ‘Unlocking Strategic Opportunities successful Mining, Agriculture, and Power’, MAP for short, could not beryllium much fitting due to the fact that these sectors bash correspond the backbone of Nigeria’s system and so the instauration for industrialization.

“In the 2nd 4th of 2025, that’s conscionable this past quarter, April to June, the GDP of Nigeria grew by 4.23%, the strongest maturation successful a decennary but for the COVID rebound era. The strongest maturation successful a decade, and since 2023, year-on-year, maturation has consistently been supra 3 per cent, outpacing 2 per cent of the 5 to 8 years previously.

“More critically, concern growth, wherever jobs are created, doubled year-on-year, portion agriculture and services besides expanded robustly. Inflation has begun to ease, 20.12 per cent successful August, and it has consistently, period aft month, successful the past 5 months been coming down.

“Our commercialized surplus, $7.4 trillion; reserves risen to $42 billion, and arsenic we know, the naira has not lone stabilised, it has adjacent strengthened but this advancement is not by chance, it is simply a effect of deliberate, intentional, and strategical policies anchored connected the President’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

‘’The Renewed Hope Agenda is anchored connected economical transformation, inclusive growth, and nationalist prosperity but it recognises the interconnected roles of finance, nationalist policy, technology, successful unlocking Nigeria’s afloat potential.

“The cardinal absorption areas person been stabilising the macroeconomic environment, creating jobs, reducing poverty, mobilising backstage assemblage investment, whether domestic, and focused connected integer and fiscal innovation.

“That’s wherefore the President’s administration’s strategical reforms spot mining, agriculture, and powerfulness successful the northbound astatine the bosom of our maturation agenda. What are those opportunities? As we person conscionable heard, the northbound holds immoderate of the astir invaluable mineral deposits successful Africa.

Let’s drastically tackle insecurity to pull investors – Zamfara Gov

In his remarks, the politician of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal, called for superior enactment to tackle existent insecurity bedeviling the portion successful bid to pull investors.

He besides said what was needed present was to alteration imaginable into prosperity, adding that determination was request for the 19 authorities governments to harmonise their economical policies and enactment unneurotic to execute the developmental goals of the region.

“The question earlier us, arsenic leaders, is not what needs to beryllium done, but however we indispensable collectively enactment to alteration imaginable into prosperity. To pull the concern we truthful desperately request and to industrialise our portion for the payment of the full nation, we indispensable determination beyond rhetoric and clasp a caller paradigm of collaborative action.

“First, we indispensable collectively unafraid radical and investments. Security is the f...