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HIGHLIGHTS
THE CONSTITUTION
Initiate action to amend our Constitution with a view to devolving powers, duties and responsibilities to states and local governments in order to entrench true Federalism and the Federal spirit;
Strengthen INEC to reduce/ eliminate electoral malpractices;
Attract the best and brightest into our politics and public service by aggressive recruitment of private sector people, academics and professionals within Nigeria and in the Diaspora through internships, fellowships, executive appointments and special nomination to contest elective offices;
Prevent abuse of executive, legislative and public offices through greater accountability, transparency and strict enforcement of anti-corruption laws whilst strengthening the EFCC and ICPC;
Amend the Constitution to remove immunity from prosecution for elected officers in criminal cases;
Restructure government for a leaner, more efficient and adequately compensated public service;
Require full disclosure in all media outlets of all government contracts over N100m prior to award and during implementation at regular intervals;
Reform and Strengthen the Justice System for efficient administration and dispensation of justice along with the creation of special courts for accelerated hearing of corruption, drug trafficking, terrorism and similar cases of national importance;
Ensure full implementation of the Freedom of Information Act so that government held data sets can be requested and used by the media and the public at large, and then published on regular basis;
Seek to amend the Constitution to require local governments to publish their meeting minutes, service performance data and items of spending over N10M.
NATIONAL SECURITY – APC Will:
Urgently address capacity building of law enforcement agents in terms of quantity and quality as this is critical in safeguarding the sanctity of lives and property;
Establish a well-trained, adequately equipped and goals driven Serious Crime Squad to combat terrorism, kidnapping, armed robbery, militants, ethno-religious and communal clashes nationwide;
Begin widespread consultations to amend the Constitution to enable States and Local Governments to employ State and Community Police to address the peculiar needs of each community. This would mean setting boundaries for Federal, State and Community Police through new Criminal Justice legislation to replace the Criminal Code, the Penal Code and the Police Act.
Push for more support in the security and economic stability of the sub-region [ECOWAS] and AU as a whole and maintain a strong, close and frank relationship with West Africa, South Africa, UK, USA, Canada, and other African countries.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION, NATIONAL UNITY, SOCIAL HARMONY – APC WILL
Establish a Conflict Resolution Commission to help prevent, mitigate and resolve civil conflicts within the polity;
Bring permanent peace and solution to the Niger Delta and other conflict prone areas such as Plateau, Taraba, Bauchi, Borno and Abia in order to engender national unity and social harmony;
Initiate policies to ensure that Nigerians are free to live and work in any part of the country by removing state of origin, tribe, ethnic and religious affiliations and replace those with state of residence.
JOB CREATION AND THE ECONOMY APC Will:
Maintain sound macro-economic policy environment, run an efficient government and preserve the independence of the Central Bank;
Restore and strengthen financial confidence by putting in place a more robust monitoring, supervising and regulating of all financial institutions;
Make our economy one of the fastest growing emerging economies in the world with a real GDP growth averaging 10% annually;
Embark on vocational training, entrepreneurial and skills acquisition scheme for graduates along with the creation of Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme to create at least 1 million new jobs every year, for the foreseeable future;
Integrate the informal economy into the mainstream and prioritize the full implementation of the National Identification Scheme to generate the relevant data;
Expand domestic demand and consider undertaking associated public works programmes;
Embark on export and production diversification including investment in infrastructure; promote manufacturing through agro based industries and expand sub-regional trade through ECOWAS and AU;
Make Information Technology, Manufacturing, Agriculture and Entertainment key drivers of our economy;
Balance the economy across regions by the creation of 6 new Regional Economic Development Agencies (REDAs) to act as champions of sub-regional competitiveness;
Put in place a N300bn regional growth fund (average of N50bn in each geo-political region) to be managed by the REDAs, encourage private sector enterprise and support to help places currently reliant on the public sector;
Amend the Constitution and the Land Use Act to create freehold/leasehold interests in land along with matching grants for states to create a nationwide electronic land title register on a state by state basis;
Create additional middle-class of at least 2 million new home owners in our first year in government and 1 million annually thereafter; by enacting a national mortgage system that will lend at single digit interest rates for purchase of owner occupier houses.
AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY APC Will:
Modernize the sector and change Nigeria from being a country of self-subsistence farmers to that of a medium/commercial scale farming nation/producer;
Create a nationwide food inspectorate division with a view to improving nutrition and eliminating food-borne hazards;
Inject extra N30bn to the Agricultural sector to create more agro-allied jobs by way of loans at nominal interest rates for capital investment on medium and commercial scale cash crops;
Guarantee a minimum price for selected crops and facilitate storage of agricultural products as and when necessary.
INDUSTRIALIZATION : APC WILL:
Formulate a robust industrialization policy and provide a conducive environment for a private sector led industrial base for the economy, promote entrepreneurship that would help usher in new industries, new jobs, new knowledge and utilization of information and communication technologies;
Create growth centers through the promotion of industrialization in all regions by encouraging the use of local resources.
Promote innovation by investing heavily in research, development, science and technology.
Support diversification of our economy from export of primary materials to value added goods through supporting the establishment of a solid industrial base.
Ensure that key agricultural products such as cocoa and rubber go through value addition as opposed to exporting raw materials for industries in other countries.
INFRASTRUCTURE: APC Will
Undertake an urgent review of the Public Private Partnership(PPP) enabling environment with a view to addressing the legal, regulatory and operational challenges including introducing enabling legislation where necessary. In addition, we shall create a National Infrastructural Development Bank to provide loans at nominal interest rates exclusively for this sector to help rebuild our infrastructure and provide gainful employment;
Generate, transmit and distribute from current 5,000 – 6,000 MW to at least 20,000 MW of electricity within four years and increasing to 50,000 MW with a view to achieving 24/7 uninterrupted power supply within ten years, whilst simultaneously ensuring development of sustainable/renewable energy;
Embark on a National Infrastructural Development Programme as a PPP that will ensure the (a) construction of 3,000km of Superhighway including service trunks and (b) building of up to 4,800km of modern railway lines – one third to be completed by 2019;
Enact new legal and regulatory frameworks to establish independent regulation and incentives to accelerate public and private sector investment in seaports, railways and inland waterways;
Embark on PPP schemes with a view to ensuring that at least one functioning airport is available in each of the 36 states.
OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY APC WILL:
Make the industry and Nigeria one of the world leading/cutting edge centers for clean oil and gas technologists, scientists, mega structure installation, drilling, processing, production engineers supported with best services and research facilities;
Fully develop the sector’s capacity to absorb more of the nation’s new graduates in the labour market. The sector will produce more home-grown world class engineers and scientists;
Modernize the NNPC and make it the national energy champion. Consider breaking it up into more efficient, commercially driven units and strip it of its regulatory powers and enable it tap into international capital market;
Enforce the government master plan for oil companies to end flaring that pollutes the air and damages people’s health and ensure that they sell at least half of their gas production within Nigeria;
Speedily pass the much-delayed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) and ensure that local content issues are fully addressed;
Make Nigeria the world’s leading exporter of LNG through the creation of strategic partnerships.
EDUCATION: APC Will
Fully implement and enforce the provisions of the Universal Basic Education Act with emphasis on gender equity in primary and secondary school enrollment whilst improving the quality and substance of our schools;
Targeting up to 15% of our annual budget for this critical sector whilst making substantial investments in training quality teachers at all levels of the educational system;
Implement performance based education as against the current certificate based qualification;
Enhance teacher training and improve the competence of teachers along with vigorous national inspection;
Make learning experiences more meaningful for children and make education more cost-effective;
Develop and promote effective use of innovative teaching methods/materials in schools;
Ensure a greater proportion of expenditure on university education is devoted to Science and Technology with more spaces allocated to science and technology oriented courses;
Establish at least six new universities of science and technology with satellite campuses in various states;
Establish technical colleges and vocational centers in each state of the federation;
Provide more conducive environment for private sector participation in all levels of education;
Establish six centers of excellence to address the needs of special education;
HEALTHCARE – APC WILL:
Prioritize the reduction of the infant mortality rate by 2019 to 3%; reduce maternal mortality by more than 70%; reduce HIV/AIDs infection rate by 50% and other infectious diseases by 75%; improve life expectancy by additional 10 years on average through our national healthy living program;
Increase the number of physicians from 19 per 1000 population to 50 per 1000; increase national health expenditure per person per annum to about N50,000 (from less than N10,000 currently);
Increase the quality of all federal government owned hospitals to world class standard within five years;
Invest in cutting edge technology such as telemedicine in all major health centers in the country through active investment and partnership programs with the private sector;
Provide free ante-natal care for pregnant women, free health care for babies and children up to school going age and for the aged and free treatment for those afflicted with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS;
Boost the local manufacture of pharmaceuticals and make non adulterated drugs readily available.
SENIOR CITIZENS, YOUTH SPORTS AND CULTURE APC Will
Ensure timely payment of retirement benefits for all pensioned senior citizens and create a poverty safety net for all aged citizens above the age of 65;
Provide the opportunities for youths to realize, harness, and develop their full potentials and to facilitate the emergence of a new generation of citizens committed to the sustenance of good governance and service to the people and the country;
Establish world class sports academy and training institutes and ensure that Nigeria occupies a place of pride in global sports and athletics;
Revive the Nigerian football league and put incentives in place to make it as competitive as other national leagues;
Put in place measures to identify talents early and ensure their participation in local and international games to enable them become professionals;
Mandate schools and communities to create playgrounds/sports centers with needed equipment to develop skills;
Assist Nollywood to fully develop into world class movie industry that can compete effectively with Hollywood and Bollywood in due course.
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT APC Will
Ensure the rights of women are protected as enshrined in our Constitution;
Guarantee that women are adequately represented in government appointments and provide greater opportunities in education, job creation and economic empowerment;
Recognize and protect women empowerment and gender equality with special emphasis on economic activities in development and in rural areas;
Promote the concept of reserving a minimum number of seats in the National Assembly for women.
ENVIRONMENT – APC Will
Ensure compliance with policies and measures to halt the pollution of rivers and waterways in the Niger Delta and other parts of the country;
Create shelter belts in states bordering the Sahara Desert to mitigate and reverse the effects of the expanding desert;
Support and accelerate the implementation of regional water transfer initiatives across the country;
Adopt a holistic approach to erosion and shoreline protection across the country;
Create teams of volunteers to plant and nurture economically viable trees in arid regions;
Restructure the Ecological Fund Office to enable it meet today’s environmental challenges;
Regulate the timber industry to ensure that double the number of trees felled are planted by the loggers;
Ensure full compliance with town-planning and environmental laws and edicts.
FOREIGN POLICY – APC Will
Make regional integration a priority within ECOWAS including free trade with a view to ensuring that a common tariff and currency are achieved by 2020 under Nigeria’s guidance and leadership;
Maintain strong, close and frank relationships within the Gulf of Guinea, the Commonwealth, South Africa and the rest of the world;
Establish a new special relationship with the leading emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) and other strategic partners around the world

Nigeria has begun a process to exit 90 of 310 international organizations memberships.

The decision is coming after accumulating backlog of $120 million in membership dues and other financial commitments which costs the nation an average of $70 million annually.

Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun disclosed this to State House Correspondents at the end of Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) in Abuja, chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari, the first since he returned from the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Adeosun, who briefed alongside the Minister of Foreign Affairs, moderated by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the cabinet considered the report of an inter-ministerial committee which made the recommendations.

The minister did not name the particular organisations Nigeria will be withdrawing from but disclosed that the committee was given two weeks within which to review the recommendations after which a final decision will be taken by FEC.

Adeosun explained that the decision was taken because of the huge debts Nigeria was accumulating by her membership of some many of them with little or no benefits.

She said, “Basically Nigeria is a member of 310 international organizations and a committee was set up to review the rationale of our continued membership of such a large number of our organizations, particularly in the light of the fact that in many cases we are not actually paying our financial obligations and subscriptions which is causing some embarrassment to Nigeria and our image abroad. In particular, it was discussed that there are some commitments made to international organizations made by former presidents which were not cash backed. So when our delegations turn up at those organizations we become very embarrassed. So that was what drove the committee.

“The committee made some recommendations: That out of the 310 organizations, 220 organizations should be retained and the rest we should withdraw membership from.

“But council directed that more work needed to be done, particularly there was a dispute as to the figure of how much is owed. The committee had a figure of about $ 120 million but we are clear from Ministry of Finance and other ministries that is far more than that. Our subscriptions are in arrears in a number of major organizations.

“So the directive of the council was that we should go and reconcile those figures and come back to council and have a payment plan for those figures to avoid Nigeria being embarrassed internationally. And also circulars needed to be issued on who can commit Nigeria because it was discovered it would be a director or an ambassador who attended the meeting who committed subscription on behalf of Nigeria. Of course then the international organization then begins to chase us for its money,”, she said.

Adeosun added that “We need to tighten up the procedures of committing Nigeria to any form of subscription or donations to international organizations.

“The committee are due to come back in the next two weeks with the final figures. And then ministers were then asked to look at the recommendations of those international organizations which we want to withdraw from and ensure that they are in support of those decisions before we will finalize the work on this issue. So basically, this is just prudence and value for money. Nigeria doesn’t need to be a member of every single organizations but those we are members of, we have made a decision as FEC that we must prioritize and pay our obligations because that is part of the nation’s image. That is what gives Nigeria as a country the right to sit up very straight at international meetings, when you haven’t paid up your subscriptions you can’t necessary do so.

“The subscriptions is $70 million per annum and there are lots and lots of arrears.”

According to Wikipedia some of the international organizations Nigeria is a member are which include: African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, African Development Bank(ADB), African Union (AU), Commonwealth of Nations, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Group of 15, G-19, Group of 24 and Group of 77.

Others are International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), International Chamber of Commerce, (ICC), International Civil Aviation Organization, (ICAO), International Criminal Court (ICC), International Development Association (IDA), International Finance Corporation (IFC), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), International Labor Organization (ILO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and International Maritime Organization (IMO).

Others are International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO), International Olympic Committee, (IOC), International Organization for Standardization (IOS), International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (IRCRCM), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Interpol, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Permanent Court of Arbitration, United Nations Organization (HNO), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTD), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM), United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITR) and United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNIAMK).

Others are United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (UNMRWS), United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMBH$, United Nations Mission of Observers in Prevlaka (UNMOP), United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan (UNMOT), United Nations University (UNU), Universal Postal Union (UPU), World Confederation of Labour (WCL), World Customs Organization (WCO), World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), World Health Organization (WHO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), World Tourism Organization (WTO) and World Trade Organization (WTO).

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe did not mince words at the United Nations Thursday about Donald Trump, mocking the US president as the “Giant Gold Goliath.”

“Some of us were,” Mugabe said, pausing for emphasis, “embarrassed, if not frightened, by what appeared to be the return of the biblical Giant Gold Goliath.

“Are we having a return of Goliath to our midst, who threatens the extinction of other countries?” he asked, triggering applause in the hall as two junior US diplomats listened expressionless.

Addressing the UN General Assembly, where reproaches of other leaders are generally less personal in tone, the 93-year-old veteran leader took Trump to task both on policy and appearance.

“And may I say to the United States president, Mr. Trump, please blow your trumpet – blow your trumpet in a musical way towards the values of unity, peace, cooperation, togetherness, dialogue, which we have always stood for and which are well-writ in our very sacred document, the Charter of the United Nations.”

Mugabe has tense relations with Western nations which have imposed sanctions to press for more democracy in Zimbabwe, where he has ruled for 37 years.

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe did not mince words at the United Nations Thursday about Donald Trump, mocking the US president as the “Giant Gold Goliath.”

“Some of us were,” Mugabe said, pausing for emphasis, “embarrassed, if not frightened, by what appeared to be the return of the biblical Giant Gold Goliath.

“Are we having a return of Goliath to our midst, who threatens the extinction of other countries?” he asked, triggering applause in the hall as two junior US diplomats listened expressionless.

Addressing the UN General Assembly, where reproaches of other leaders are generally less personal in tone, the 93-year-old veteran leader took Trump to task both on policy and appearance.

“And may I say to the United States president, Mr. Trump, please blow your trumpet – blow your trumpet in a musical way towards the values of unity, peace, cooperation, togetherness, dialogue, which we have always stood for and which are well-writ in our very sacred document, the Charter of the United Nations.”

Mugabe has tense relations with Western nations which have imposed sanctions to press for more democracy in Zimbabwe, where he has ruled for 37 years.

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