Some stakeholders have urged President Bola Tinubu to implement the Nigeria Agenda 2050, developed to address economic and social challenges in the country.
Country Director, CARE International, Dr. Hussaini Abdu, said that former President Muhammadu Buhari formulated the Nigeria Agenda 2050 (NA 2050), which is a long-term economic transformation blueprint for Nigeria.
Abdu and spoke during a Leadership and Development Dialogue (LDD), tagged: Nigeria Agenda 2050 and the Incoming Administration, organised by the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD), yesterday in Abuja.
He said that the Agenda targets Nigeria becoming an upper middle-income country with an average real GDP growth rate of 7 percent, nominal GDP of US$11.7 trillion by 2050, and an end period per capita income of US$33, 328 per annum.
The Nigeria Agenda 2050, therefore, highlights the roadmap for accelerated, sustained and broad-based growth and development, provides frameworks and approaches for reducing unemployment, poverty, inequality, and human deprivation., he further stated.
The Executive Director, of Centre LSD, Monday Osasah said the NA 2050 highlighted challenges bedevilling Nigerias development with clear plans for resolving them to put the country on the path of sustainable development.
Abdu said that Nigeria has continued to struggle economically because of policy summersault and lack of continuity, as such the Tinubu administration should adopt and implement the NA 2050.
According to him, the country can achieve these laudable objectives by effectively engaging its youthful and vibrant workforce.
The stakeholders, therefore, recommended that the new administration should create the structures, institutions and people to drive the agenda.
They added that the pursuit of diversification is imperative to achieving the Nigeria Agenda 2050.
