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Press statement from the presidency

President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday in Abuja that Nigeria, under his leadership, will work more closely with other countries facing the challenge of falling oil prices to rapidly move away from dependence on crude oil exports for economic survival.

Speaking at an audience with the new Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Nigeria, Mr. Fahad Abdullah Sefyan, President Buhari affirmed his administration's commitment to faster development of Nigeria's non-oil sectors and the speedy diversification of the country's economy.

‘‘For more than 30 years, Nigeria has depended on oil as its major source of revenue at the expense of agriculture and the non-oil sector which could be the mainstay of our economy.
"As oil exporting countries facing similar challenges due to the down turn in the international price of crude oil, we should be working closer together.

"Saudi Arabia has done excellently in manufacturing, building of infrastructure and exploration of solid minerals and I believe that greater bilateral cooperation between us in this regard will be mutually beneficial," the President told the new Ambassador of Saudi Arabia.

President Buhari said that in keeping with his commitment to the accelerated development of Nigeria's non-oil sector, the Federal Government will ensure that all pending agreements on trade and economic relations with other countries are speedily concluded and signed.

President Buhari, who also received the new Ambassador of Turkey, Mr. Hakan Cakil and the new Ambassador of Sudan, Mr. Ibrahim Bushra Mohammed, commended Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Sudan for their cooperation with Nigeria in the war against terrorism.

The President restated his conviction that the war against terrorism in Nigeria and other countries can only be won with greater and more effective international collaboration.

All the new ambassadors assured President Buhari that they will work very hard to boost trade and economic relations between Nigeria and their respective countries.

Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
August 27, 2015

source
http://www.reportnaija.com/2015/08/economic-diversification-very-high-on.html

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This is highly necessary and the efforts should be accelerated in light of falling oil prices and high unemployment rates. Agriculture and solid minerals possess the potential to wean us off our dangerous reliance of crude oil and rescues us from the dangers of a mono-economy.

Developing our agricultural capacity in particular, will result in a higher availability of cheaper raw materials which will encourage local manufacturers and attract FDI, thereby securing and strengthening the naira.

Kudos PMB, we are ever ready to support your purposeful leadership.

The cow herder is back with his promises.

"I'm bereft of ideas" - Buhari

This is what we want below.

*still waiting*

Can someone dash me Koboko to flog the Daura Clueless to start Work!
It's 90 days already and he still dreaming of work even when he already entered the Villa of leadership.
This is serious o!

Let's see result not "I Wills"

My president iam solidly behind you.that is what we need now

The only way to diversify the economy in the long run is to devolve powers and place more responsibility for driving economic growth on state governors. Development can only be driven from the states and local governments, not Abuja.