How Nigeria can overtake Malaysia, Singapore, others! FROM her lower comparative status, Nigeria can overtake world economic powers like Malaysia, Singapore, China and United Arab Emirates, if the needful was done, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, founder of Leadership Newspapers Group and presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said. SAM Nda- Isaiah According to Nda-Isaiah, Nigeria will leap-frog these countries on the economic ladder by ensuring good leadership, rule of law and security; punishing corruption squarely; creating jobs; strengthening the local currency; changing the way government works and the elite reaching a consensus to move the country forward. The presidential aspirant spoke, yesterday, in Lagos while delivering the First City People Monthly lecture, entitled, ‘Moving Nigeria Forward: Lessons from Malaysia, Singapore, China and Dubai.’ Noting that in terms of development most of these countries looked up to Nigeria in the 1970′s, Nda-Isaiah lamented that “the reverse is the case today.” He said: “Nigeria’s First Republic leaders and General Yakubu Gowon did their best until things took a turn for downward slide after the toppling of Gowon’s military regime “General Yakubu Gowon, one of the former leaders of this country that I believe had not yet been given his rightful place in history, told me in a private discussion last year that what pained him most about the coup that removed him from office was not the loss of power, but the loss of opportunity to implement his Third National Development Plan, which started the year he was overthrown and which could have moved Nigeria to the level of the Asian Tigers.”
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:40:59 +0000
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