• Hausa Edition
  • Podcast
  • Conferences
  • LeVogue Magazine
  • Business News
  • Print Advert Rates
  • Online Advert Rates
  • Contact Us
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Leadership Newspapers
Read in Hausa
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
Leadership Newspapers
No Result
View All Result

 How Africa Can Achieve Full Industrialisation By 2030 – Buhari 

by Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
3 years ago
in News
Buhari
Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on XTelegram

President Muhammadu Buhari has set out priorities on how Africa can achieve full industrialisation by the year 2030.

Advertisement

 

They include a recommendation to African leaders to tailor their educational system and academic curricular towards Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

 

In his National Statement on Friday in Niamey, the capital of Niger Republic, at the African Union (AU) Summit on Industrialisation and Economic Diversification in Africa, the President in a statement by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, emphasised that STEM is the ”short way” to produce the next generation of managers of an industrialised Africa not dependent on expatriates.

RELATED

Isese Day: Sanwo-Olu Declares Tuesday Public Holiday

Sanwo-Olu Urges Capacity Building For Robust Procurement System

5 minutes ago
Senate Rejects NEITI’s N960m Personnel Cost

MRA Faults NEITI’s Move To Amend FoI Act

7 minutes ago

 

The President urged leaders in the continent to solve the problem of generating cheap and clean energy, saying ”it is no secret that we cannot industrialize the continent, if we do not solve the problem of generating cheap and clean energy.”

 

”Your Excellencies, energy generation and distribution is an enabler for industrialization. Africa is richly endowed with multiple sources of energy generation. We are richly endowed with Hydro-Carbons, Coal, Natural Gas, Solar Energy, and Hydro- Energy.

 

”Yet we are lacking in the capacity to produce clean and cheap electricity to power our production, manufacturing sectors.

 

”I hope this Summit will afford us the opportunity to explore the possibilities of collaboration in pooling resources on a continental level to address the vexing problem of Energy generation and distribution on the continent.

 

”I say this because, it is no secret that we cannot industrialize the continent, if we do not solve the problem of generating cheap and clean energy.

 

”Your Excellencies, the African Continent is blessed with a large Youth population that can address our labour shortages. Therefore, we should tap this human resource potential that abound in the continent by providing our youths with qualitative and fit for purpose education that recognizes the labour market demands.

 

”In this regard, we must rejig our educational system and academic curricula to gravitate towards Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. This is the short way we can produce the next generation of managers for the industrial complex we envisage, one that will not be dependent on expatriates,” Buhari said.

 

President Buhari also told the AU Summit that the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement will give impetus to the continent’s quest for an industrial revolution.

 

He expressed the belief that the outcome of the Summit would launch the African continent on the path to poverty eradication, food security and technological advancement, issues not far from the goals set out in the AU Agenda 2063 and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

 

He commended the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), for the mileage they have achieved through inclusive and sustainable industrial development plans for developing countries, providing the framework for implementing decisions of the UN and supporting the AU in several initiatives for growth and sustainable development.

 

He noted that these collaborative efforts have the capacity to ensure an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa.

 

The Nigerian leader told African leaders that industrialisation and diversification of economies remain the keys and engine to unlock economic growth and build a prosperous continent.

 

”They are the solution to the socio- economic challenges that have bedevilled Africa, particularly those worsened by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Russia- Ukraine war, as well as the effects of Climate Change, Terrorism and Banditry.

 

”Chairperson, let me call on all African leaders, our Development Partners and the Organized Private Sector to team up and fashion a collaboration that will ultimately lead Africa to achieve full industrialisation by the year 2030.

 

”We can do this by simply taking advantage of our rich endowments in natural resources. Nigeria is committed to advancing the accelerated implementation of the African Union Programme for Infrastructure Development, as a vehicle to deliver industrialization,” he added.

 

According to President Buhari, Nigeria has continued to diversify its economy, shifting from the traditional oil-based economy to a multi-sectoral economy.

 

He said the country was investing heavily in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), supporting small business and start-ups in innovation and Hi-Tech as well as IT.

 

On health issues, the President acknowledged that one of the lessons learnt from the outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa as well as Nigeria was the lack of preparedness to respond to such outbreaks and shocks.

 

He, however, expressed delight that in the wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic, Nigeria along with five other African Countries were selected as vaccine hubs for the local production of mRNA Vaccines by the World Health Organisation, and to receive the technology needed to produce Vaccines.

 

He said Nigeria was exploring bilateral, multilateral and other opportunities to acquire the necessary technology needed to create a centre of excellence for Vaccine manufacturing and distribution in the country.

 

”As the mRNA technology permits science to shift attention to yet unknown disease threats, we see this as an opportunity to address diseases that have plagued our continent, especially sub-Saharan Africa and the third world countries.

 

”We see this as an opportunity to find lasting solutions to diseases such as Ebola, Malaria, Lassa Fever and other endemic tropical diseases through the manufacture of affordable Vaccines and therapeutics,” Buhari stated.

 

President Buhari, therefore, restated his call on partners to consider working with Nigeria on the entire value chain of vaccine technology development in the continent.

 

The Nigerian leader used the occasion to welcome the G20 Debt Treatment and the Implementation of IMF Special Drawing Rights in favour of African Countries, calling for the effective implementation of all agreed measures and proposed initiatives to address Africa’s financial needs.

 

”Africa needs more Foreign Direct Investments in Science, Technology and Innovation to drive Industrialization on the Continent not forgetting our long-standing need for better Tenors of Trade with developing countries,” he said.


We’ve got the edge. Get real-time reports, breaking scoops, and exclusive angles delivered straight to your phone. Don’t settle for stale news. Join LEADERSHIP NEWS on WhatsApp for 24/7 updates →

Join Our WhatsApp Channel

START EARNING US DOLLARS as a Nigerian ($35,000) monthly. Companies are sacking their workers due to AI (artificial intelligence), business owners are in panic mode. Only the smart will make it. Click here


SendShareTweetShare
Previous Post

Ignore Mischief Makers, Senior Lawyer Tells CJN Over Alleged Partisanship

Next Post

Kanu Drags Federal Govt To Supreme Court

Jonathan Nda-Isaiah

Jonathan Nda-Isaiah

You May Like

Isese Day: Sanwo-Olu Declares Tuesday Public Holiday
News

Sanwo-Olu Urges Capacity Building For Robust Procurement System

2025/06/08
Senate Rejects NEITI’s N960m Personnel Cost
News

MRA Faults NEITI’s Move To Amend FoI Act

2025/06/08
At LEADERSHIP Twitter Spaces, CSOs Ask Federal Govt To Implement Uwais Report
News

Agbakoba, Adegboruwa, Others Pay Tribute To Justice Uwais

2025/06/08
Tinubu’s Eid Reflections: Beyond The Prayers
News

Youth Group Condemns Afenifere Faction’s Call For Tinubu’s Impeachment

2025/06/08
Auto Draft
News

VC Harps On Strategic Research To Achieve SDGs

2025/06/08
COAS Celebrates Christmas With Sick, Wounded Soldiers In Kaduna
News

Insecurity: Army Chief Boosts Morale Of Frontline Troops In Akwa Ibom

2025/06/08
Leadership Conference advertisement

LATEST

Sanwo-Olu Urges Capacity Building For Robust Procurement System

MRA Faults NEITI’s Move To Amend FoI Act

Agbakoba, Adegboruwa, Others Pay Tribute To Justice Uwais

2027: Lagos Group Pushes For Tinubu, Ambode Mandate

Youth Group Condemns Afenifere Faction’s Call For Tinubu’s Impeachment

VC Harps On Strategic Research To Achieve SDGs

The Bold Victory Of The Justified Believer In Christ

Insecurity: Army Chief Boosts Morale Of Frontline Troops In Akwa Ibom

FCT, Neighbouring States To Experience Thunderstorms, Heavy Rainfalls

Romanian Cuisine: Fresh, Healthy, Full Of Flavour

© 2025 Leadership Media Group - All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
  • Columns
  • Football
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us

© 2025 Leadership Media Group - All Rights Reserved.