The need to urgently make sure that Nigeria's potentials are harnessed and utilised for the good of the country has been buttressed by President Muhammad Buhari.

Speaking when he received the President of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Dr Bernard Aliyu, at the State House, Abuja, Buhari added, ‘Nigeria needs to work on her potentials so that we don’t remain permanently at the level of potentials.

‘If Ethiopia is sustained largely by her airline industry, we have greater potentials here. But we must move out, engage with the rest of the world, as we need to re-establish the integrity of this country.

‘We need to rebuild this country again. For the greater part of the last 16 years, oil sold above 100 dollars per barrel, but the nation did not have much to show for it.

In the First Republic, more enduring infrastructure was built with meagre resources. But in the past 16 years, we made a lot of money without planning for the rainy day.

‘We showed a lot of indiscipline in managing our economy and that is why we are where we are today. But this time around, we’ll do our best.’

Responding, Aliyu praised President Buhari for what he termed strides in anti-corruption and asked the country to pay more attention to the development of civil aviation.

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