BY Taiwo George
President Muhammadu Buhari says the situation in the country makes it appear as though Nigeria is starting all over again.
According to Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, Buhari said this while receiving Nasser Bourita, a special envoy of King Mohammed VI of Morocco, at the presidential villa, Abuja.
“For us in Nigeria, it is like starting all over again. There was a time we had so much money and took things for granted. But with the fall in the international price of oil, we are now managing,” he said.
Buhari said there was a time in the history of the country that there was so much money that successive governments took things for granted.
The president added that he was in a hurry to see projects take off in the agricultural sector to enhance food security and create jobs for teeming unemployed youths.
He welcomed the plan by Morocco to establish a fertilizer plant in Nigeria, which would not only serve the country, but the entire West African sub-region.
The envoy, who is also minister delegate for foreign affairs and cooperation, said his country had developed strategy to deal with religious extremism, and had largely been successful in fighting terrorism.
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