The Presidency on Wednesday asked Nigerians to count the blessings brought to the economy by President Muhammadu Buhari's administration.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said in a statement that this was "irrespective of the other areas where the government is still working hard to ensure that every citizen can feel the change for which they massively voted in 2015."

Shehu stated: "We are only saying that we must learn to pause and count our blessings. The loud voices of critics with selfish ambitions and ulterior motives should not be a veil that keeps Nigerians blind to the many ways God has blessed us and improved our lot through the Buhari administration."

According to him, "Last year, the World Bank ranked Nigeria among the top 10 reforming economies in the world. This was clearly in recognition of the thorough and rigorous growth and development-oriented economic policies of the Buhari Administration.

"Today, investors and business men and women from around the world can arrive in Nigeria and get their visas right at the airport without any hassle. This is just one of the many reasons why Nigeria has advanced 24 steps in the global ‘Ease of Doing Business’ rankings of the World Bank."

He said his statement should not be misconstrued as denying that there was more that needed to be done as the current administration was relentless and determined to continue in its task of continuously improving the lot of Nigerians.

He said the government was spending more on infrastructure than previous administrations, despite earning barely half of what the country earned from oil between 2011 and 2014 when the product was selling for an average of $110 per barrel.

"The latest GDP figures show continued growth after the Buhari administration successfully brought the country out of recession, with virtually all sectors of the economy now on the rebound, and significant progress recorded in agriculture," he added.

Shehu said Buhari's administration had also recorded significant progress in agriculture where output had risen in local production, and Nigeria was now importing 80-90 percent less rice than in previous years.

"Fertilizer plants have been resuscitated, prices have dropped. More and more young people are going into agriculture, being able, for the first time, to see farming as a viable endeavour. Has anyone heard of the Graduates-in-Agriculture Scheme in several states of the federation, a self-driven, government-assisted programme by which our young men and women are stopping their endless wait for white-collar jobs and creating wealth for themselves and the nation?

"Power generation and distribution have more than doubled from 2015 when President Buhari took power to the present.

"In his address at the 10th Bola Tinubu Colloquium a week ago, the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo reported that the Buhari administration has put in place 'an audacious Social Investment Programme to the tune of N500 billion, the largest pro-poor programme in our nation’s history, and the largest social safety net, at least in Sub-Saharan Africa. This was despite the fact that by 2015, oil prices fell by over 50% and our production also fell from over 2 million barrels a day to less than 700,000 barrels a day, sometimes even 500,000 barrels in 2016.

'We have seen today the empirical evidence of the successes of this programme, and all of that is evident for us to see and listen to several testimonies and stories. 200,000 jobs for undergraduates employed under the N-Power programme, 300,000 more waiting to be employed; they have been pre-selected; over 7 million children being fed daily in 22 States so far; beneficiaries of micro-credit loans going to about 300,000; and almost 300,000 households benefiting from conditional cash transfers.

He said in line with campaign promises, Buhari's administration was spending trillions of naira to build railways, roads and ramp up power supplies.

"On this spending on infrastructure the Vice President’s words were: 'In n014, when oil was at between 100 dollars and 114 dollars a barrel, the actual releases for capital for three ministries – Power, Works and Housing – then they were three separate ministries, was in total N99 billion; while Transportation got 14 billion, and Agriculture got 15 billion. I am talking about actual releases, not budgeted, what they actually got. Let us compare that with capital releases to the same ministries in 2017, when oil price was between $50 and $60 a barrel, N415 Billion for Power, Works & Housing, N80 Billion for Transportation; N65 Billion for Agriculture; totalling N560 Billion, in a time when we were earning at least 50% less than we were earning in 2014."


https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/presidency-to-nigerians-count-your-blessings-under-buhari.html

Ogun kill you

Among TOP 10 REFORMING ECONOMIES in the world after 100+ years and you're happy?
Ti a ba fi ogun odun pile were, ojo wo lo fe wo oja?

If we spend 20 developing insanity, when is it going to run to the market square?


Nigeria as a nation itself is insane. And you want to count blessing when woes full everywhere...
Abeg...
Next thread please!

Why is Nigeria unfortunate with oponu useless oloshi leaders since independence and to crown it all this self deceived delusional set of old for nothing leaders

You mean counting dead bodies of loved ones is part of the blessings of this destructive govt? No wonder the Bible says, "When the wicked rule, the people lament."

What else does one expect...

"The first lesson i learned in my military training is never reinforce failure; what we have now is failure, never you reinforce failure"
Olusegun Obasanjo (April 2, 2018).

Fools would rather count their losses, and completely forget where they are coming from. The challenges of low revenue and lack of adequate savings by the prodigal Goodluck Jonathan administration mean nothing to them

We will count his return back to Daura as a blessing

Sirjamo:
Fools would rather count their losses, and completely forget where they are coming from. The challenges of low revenue and lack of adequate savings by the prodigal Goodluck Jonathan administration mean nothing to them

You are indeed the biggest fool for not being able to differentiate between progressive and regressive government.
Bible says woe to those who call white black and black white

We afonjas and yoruba muslims hereby submit ourselves to the wills of our fulani masters.
Fulani Herdsmen are a blessing to us and we thank you for using the tool to curb our population explosion.
We are loyal to you. We are counting our blessings.

We are your slaves.

I have never seen a President argue with the masses...

IF THEY ACTUALLY SAID THIS T GONE THEN THESE APSHIT PEOPLE ARE MORE FAR GONE THAN I EVER IMAGINED POSSIBLE

IF THEY ACTUALLY SAID THIS THEN THESE APSHIT PEOPLE ARE MORE FAR GONE THAN I EVER IMAGINED POSSIBLE

andivirus:

You are indeed the biggest fool for not being able to differentiate between progressive and regressive government.
Bible says woe to those who call white black and black white

Exactly What I am saying, a pig will always be a pig. You and your hate filled tribe can never use the small compressed brains you have, that's why you've remain where you are since 1966.

I will vote Buhari again at all costs. most of the noisemakers here dont have pvcs

This guy definitely has some blown fuses

Yes we are currently counting the blessings in Taraba and Benue. Idiots

The presidency and apc are indirectly mocking Nigerians for their failure to deliver their campaign promises.

abduljabbar4:
I will vote Buhari again at all costs. most of the noisemakers here dont have pvcs

Give me one reason how you can be a success in life when you are still this dark in your thinking faculty, who cares who you vote for Heaven knows your Buhari is history come 2019 and I pray you are caught rigging for him and see if your type will live to tell the story.

Ratello:


Give me one reason how you can be a success in life when you are still this dark in your thinking faculty, who cares who you vote for Heaven knows your Buhari is history come 2019 and I pray you are caught rigging for him and see if your type will live to tell the story.

Who is dark in his thinking faculty here if not you? the nonsense you just typed shows how backward, primitive and uncivilised you are. So i cannot decide who to vote for? is that not how thugs think? And when did voting become rigging? Your type dont belong to a civilised society.