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The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, has expressed his confidence in President Bola Tinubu’s capacity to transform Nigeria just like he did in Lagos State.

In a statement by his media assistant, Segun Tomori, Alake expressed the optimism that Nigeria would soon overcome its current economic hardship.

Alake said the hardship was because Nigeria is still going through what he described as a “gestation period” of economic restructuring and reforms.

Alake noted that President Bola Tinubu remains determined to revamp Nigeria’s economy and put it on a pedestal for sustainable growth through his Renewed Hope agenda.

According to him, the president has a track record of changing the economic tides of a region, just as he did when he was the governor of Lagos State.

“Going down memory lane to the experience in Lagos state, the then governor Tinubu in 1999, met a state that was almost insolvent, with a monthly Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of N600 million,” Alake said.

“And a wage bill of over N1.1 billion monthly, with little or no resources to cater to infrastructure and other sectors of the economy.

“President Tinubu took similar measures in Lagos as he is taking in Nigeria, to turn the tide and financially re-engineer the state. Today, the state is the fifth largest economy in Africa, bigger than most African countries.

“What we are going through is the gestation period of reforms and policies for economic restructuring and like the President will say, it is like throes of pregnancy, that a pregnant woman goes through. After delivery, she heaves a sigh of relief.”

The minister urged Nigerians to be patient with the government as the current economic situation would soon stabilise with positive results from ongoing reforms.

“For the first time, Nigeria has a president well-versed in public finance. I am confident in this administration’s capacity to diversify the economy, plug leakages, and redirect the economy to a path of sustainable growth,” he said.

“The future of this country is extremely very bright. What we need to do is to exude confidence in our ability and capacity to weather the storm of restructuring, economic and societal restructuring.

“As we restructure our economy, putting in physical infrastructure, we must also restructure our minds and mental capacity to be at par with physical development.

“ So that we can efficiently and judiciously enjoy the benefits of physical development. With the cooperation of Nigerians, the tide will turn very soon, and we all will be proud,” he added

Simonjef:
That is everyone's wish

Armed robbers invaded a woman's house in Mosagar community in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta state and stole beverages, raw and cooked food including pots of stew and soup.

Nigerian activist, Comrade Israel Joe, who disclosed this in a Facebook post said the incident happened on Wednesday night, February 28, 2024.

According to Mr. Joe, the robbers didn't take any of her valuables including phones and laptop.

“There was robbery in Mosagar, Delta State yesterday at about 8:13pm. The robbers broke into the woman's house and ordered her to lie down. It wasn't clear of they were carrying guns but she clearly said three of the boys entered into her house,” he wrote.

They left her phones and her laptop. They dispossessed and emptied her kitchen, carting away with almost half bag of rice, her cooked food, including the soup and stew in her refrigerator.

They packed up a little beverage in her fridge and one of them drank one can coke in her present before they left.

This is where we have gotten to, at the moment, young men robbíng people of their food. As they narrated the ordeal to me, I felt deeply sad.

IgbosCriminals:
Omo,

Even the emergency lovers of the zoo know this so resist the urge to shalaye, baba.

We just hope things get better as soon as possible because some people have started killing their only sons for eating their last meal

On behalf of our billionaire friends we say EBI Ń PAWÁ.

meum:
Abeg o! Make him transform am make E be better country. We no want make E be like Lagos.

I don’t wish any state to be like Lagos state. I wish my state to be better than Lagos. #Fact

IgbosCriminals:
Omo,

Even the emergency lovers of the zoo know this so resist the urge to shalaye, baba.

We just hope things get better as soon as possible because some people have started killing their only sons for eating their last meal

On behalf of our billionaire friends we say EBI Ń PAWÁ.

SalamRushdie:
Lagos is rated the 2nd most unlivable city on earth, it has no sewage treatment, it has no pipe borne water , over 60 percent of it's inner streets are not paved , the roads are filled with beggars and touts ...why would anyone wa t Nigeria to be like Lagos ...Lagos shouldn't be a role model for any city