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Mr. Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday listed the 17 achievements of his boss.

He also noted that the coming year (2018) will be Nigeria’s “Year of Infrastructure” as the government has lined up a number of important infrastructure projects which cut across the various sectors.

Here are the 2017 major achievements of Buhari in 2017 as listed by Adesina



1. Nigeria exited its worst recession in decades. After five quarters of negative growth, the economy bounced back into positive territory. Agriculture was one of the stars of 2017, posting consistent growth levels even throughout the recession. Also, Inflation fell for ten consecutive months during 2017 (February to November).



2. The Naira stabilised against the dollar, after the Central Bank introduced a new forex window for Investors and Exporters. The stability has attracted billions of dollars in portfolio investments since April 2017.



3. On the back of a stable Naira and increased investment inflows, Nigeria’s stock market emerged one of the best-performing in the world, delivering returns in excess of 40 percent.



4. Nigeria saw bumper food harvests, especially in rice, whose local production continues to rise significantly (States like Ebonyi, Kebbi, Kano leading the pack, with Ogun joining at the end of 2017). The price of a 50kg bag of rice – a staple in the country – has fallen by about 30 percent since the beginning of 2017, as local production has gone up.



5. The Federal Government launched a 701 billion Naira Intervention Fund (‘Payment Assurance Programme’) aimed at supporting power generation companies to meet their payment obligations to gas and equipment suppliers, banks and other partners. The impact is being felt, the amount of power being distributed is now currently steady at around 4,000MW – higher than previously recorded.

6. The Federal Government began paying pensions to police officers who were granted Presidential pardon in 2000 after serving in the former Biafran Police during the Nigerian Civil War. These officers, and their next of kin, have waited for their pensions for 17 years since the Presidential pardon.



7. Nigeria rose 24 places on the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings, and earned a place on the List of Top 10 Reformers in the world.



8. Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves grew by $12 billion, reaching the highest level since 2014. Nigeria also added, this year, an additional $250m to its Sovereign Wealth Fund. Also, Nigeria’s trade balance crossed over into surplus territory, from a deficit in 2016.



9. Nigeria successfully issued two Eurobonds (US$4.5bn), a Sukuk Bond (100 billion Naira), a Diaspora Bond (US$300m), and the first Sovereign Climate Bond in Africa, raising billions of dollars for infrastructure spending.



10. The Federal Government launched a Tax Amnesty scheme expected to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenues when it closes in March 2018.



11. The Federal Government successfully commenced implementation of a Whistleblowing Programme that has so far seen recoveries of tens of millions of dollars.

12. The Social Investment Programme – Nigeria’s most ambitious social welfare programme ever – rolled out across dozens of states. (Currently, 5.2 million primary school children in 28,249 schools in 19 states are being fed daily; 200,000 unemployed graduated enlisted into the Npower Job Scheme, and a quarter of a million loans already distributed to artisans, traders, and farmers).



13. The number of Nigerians facing food insecurity in the northeast dropped by half, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).



14. The Nigeria Customs Service recorded its highest-ever revenue collection, crossing the One Trillion Naira (N1,000,000,000) mark. [The target for 2017 was 770 billion Naira (N770,573,730,490); 2016 Collection was just under 900 billion (N898,673,857,431.07)]



15. The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB), under the new management appointed by President Buhari in 2016, remitted 7.8 billion Naira to the coffers of the Federal Government. The total amount remitted by JAMB between 2010 and 2016 was 51 million Naira.



16. 2017 was also the Year of Nigeria’s Agriculture Revolution, embodied by the successes of the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative (PFI) and the Anchor Borrowers Programme. More than a dozen moribund fertilizer blending plants were revived under the PFI this year.



17. Finally, 2017 will be the Year that laid the foundation for a 2018 that will be Nigeria’s Year of Infrastructure. A number of important infrastructure projects, in power, rail and road, are scheduled to come on-stream or inch close to completion next year.

http://www.metronaija.ng/presidency-lists-17-major-achievements-buhari-2017/

Oye0404:


Did u read or heard his campaign promises, he was so sure he would turn Nigeria to heaven in less Dan a year.

PapaBrowne:
Let me respond to all the 17 points listed.

1) This government brought us into the only recession we have ever experienced since 1985.
We the people of Nigerians brought ourselves out of the recession Buhari put us into with our usual dexterity and capacity to survive extreme conditions.

2)The Central Bank Governor new what to do all along but Buhari was preventing him from doing the right thing by devaluation. As soon as Buhari got sick and went to London, the Governor presented his intervention program and passed it on to Osibanjo for approval. And that’s exactly what saved Nigeria. Buhari’s archaism is responsible for all the problems witnessed in the last 2 years.

3) Best stock market performance indeed. We were the worst performing last year.
Let me put it in perspective. Imagine in a class of 30 students, you carried 29th position last year with 10 over 100 as your score on the test. This year you now take 26th position with a score of 30 over hundred. Well, that’s an improvement when you are an olodo. But if you have been top ten in the class with scores above 70 over 100 for the last 10 years, you would definitely be hiding your face in shame.
Nigeria’s stock market cap grew this year but it was $80 billion in 2013 and has crashed down to $36 billion as at November 2017. There is nothing to celebrate. The stock market is 3 Times smaller than just 4 years ago.

4)When the price of Rice gets back to the N8500 it was in 2014, I will start to take them seriously. A rice revolution that jacked up the price by 100%. Hmmm. Something isn’t adding up.
Two questions: if we have increased local production, shouldn’t the price drop radically abi dollar affect the sand used for planting? Secondly, all I saw in the market this Christmas is imported rice. Where is all the local rice. I usually see them on newspapers but never in the market.

5) The Government is still talking about 4000 mw after lying to us that they achieved 6000 mw the other day. We haven’t moved an inch. There’s barely any improvement in supply. No new strategies to improve supply. 700 billion would go down the drain. Whereas Dangote alone is going to put up 12000Mw in Lagos within the next 2 years.

itsandi:
I did not see 1 Naira =1 Dollar o

STARGREEN:
18. President Buhari Appoints 3 Dead People As Board Members: Francis Okpozo,Christopher Utov, Donald Ugbaja - Says Tyro
@DoubleEph (https://www.nairaland.com/4260279/buhari-appoints-3-dead-men)

LionDeLeo:
I disagree with serial 2, all the rest are very true.

I know monkeys will disagree, but I don't give a damn as I don't talk with animals.

ahaika23:
And that is why we a borrowing more!

Ooops! I did not see any achievement on anti-corruption war in 2017, Wonderful! Please someone borrow me that Oshiom Ole's akimbo pose picture!

PHILipu1:

Yes,he was outside and not inside then and his campaign promise were based on the statistics and figures that PDP government was dishing out then which all later turned out to be wrong and fake.



The truth was that Nigeria was technically into recession under PDP but they were hiding it so that they could win 2015 elections

Richy4:



No it's not on the list yet.. it will be achieved come 2019 ...

hedonistical:
Add three zeros to 17, and you'll get the total number of failures this Daura animal 'achieved' this year. Anuofia.

LionDeLeo:

Mynd44z OAMv4J seeun

AmTruth:
You just got ur own achievement now. That is a perpetual and unfortunate hater.