North must speak with one voice on security, economy, says Governor Lawal

By Idris Salisu, Gusau

Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has called for a binding committedness among the 19 bluish states to talk with 1 dependable connected information and economical development.

He made the telephone connected Monday portion chairing the opening of the Northern Nigeria Investment and Industrialization Summit astatine the Abuja Continental Hotel.

A connection by the governor’s spokesperson, Sulaiman Bala Idris, noted that the acme was organized by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), nether the enactment of Professor Ango Abdullahi.

The taxable of the summit, “Unlocking Strategic Opportunities,” brought unneurotic stakeholders from crossed the bluish portion to deliberate connected cardinal economical and information challenges.

Commending the NEF, Governor Lawal said the absorption connected mining, agriculture, and powerfulness was a deliberate strategy, describing them arsenic the pillars upon which prosperity successful the portion indispensable beryllium built.

“In Zamfara, we are alert of the paradox we face: a onshore blessed with immense mineral wealthiness and immense arable land, yet our radical person not afloat reaped the dividends. The cardinal question for america arsenic leaders is not what needs to beryllium done, but however we tin collectively crook imaginable into prosperity,” helium said.

He stressed that ensuring information is cardinal to development:

“A harmless North is simply a bankable North. Investors volition not perpetrate superior wherever it is not safe. We indispensable integrate our information architectures, stock quality successful existent time, and foster greater assemblage policing to make a predictable environment.”

Governor Lawal outlined Zamfara’s efforts to formalize the mining sector, revitalize agriculture done mechanization and agro-processing, and beforehand entree to credit.

He further projected a Northern Nigerian Economic Compact—a committedness among the 19 states to contiguous a unified beforehand successful economical and information matters, make a azygous concern model for large investors, and jointly make captious infrastructure specified arsenic power, rail, and fibre optics to amended link the region.

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