President Bola Tinubu has said that all hands must be on deck to reposition the country among its peers globally.
The President made this call during nationwide broadcast to mark the country’s 65th independence anniversary on Wednesday.
Tinubu stated that Nigeria must be a nation of producers, not just consumers.
“Now, we must all turn on the taps of productivity, innovation, and enterprise, just as the Ministry of Interior has done with our travel passports, by quickening the processing. In this regard, I urge the sub-national entities to join us in nation-building.
“Let us farm our land and build factories to process our produce. Let us patronise ‘Made-in-Nigeria’ goods. I say Nigeria first. Let us pay our taxes,” Tinubu said.
The President explained that though the economic reforms introduced by his administration, including the removal of the fuel subsidy, came with “temporary pains,” allowing Nigeria to descend into economic chaos or bankruptcy was not an option.
Independence day: Let’s farm our land, build our factories -Tinubu tells Nigerians