Community of nations, it’s a great honor to stand before you to talk about the most populous black nation on earth. At this junction of our statehood, I’m proud to be the Chief Presiding Officer of Nigeria.
Welcome to the new Nigeria, where election to our various offices is by the universally accepted norm of one-man-one-vote. Our electoral process now breeds sound minds of selfless servants. We’re happy that corruption has been reduced to a bearable minimum. And few among us who dare to put ill knives in our cake are summarily judged and adequately punished by an upright justice system.
Fuel scarcity has now been put to eternal sleep of no glory by the grace of our locally engineered refinery, to the degree that we’re now able to produce our need for gas, and sell well over 70% of refined fuel to the international market. Thereby ensuring double gain from than 50million barrels of national high of 150million barrels of crude oil produced per day.
The best news of the growth of the oil and gas sector is that the gas that we have consistently wasted through gas flaring for over five decades is now yielding to the nation's foreign reserve in millions of hard dollars.
Our masses right as we speak have zero need for imported schooling nor private institutions of learning, as our public schools are adjudged to be among the fifty best in the world-UNESCO. And the schooling costs are completely borne by the government to the high school level and are compulsory for all of school age.
At the tertiary level, excellence in academic works, research, and development is the cornerstone of all institutions. To the extent that our corporation and industry do not have any need to consult outside expertise to get their formulas to produce globally competitive goods and services.
A feast made possible by resources provided by the government that made available up-to-date libraries and scientific research centers in all of our over 500 higher institutions of learning.
The workforce smiles home with a minimum wage of 300,000 naira per month. Like eternity were the days of fighting for 18,000 naira per month.
Our road networks speak for themselves. There is no corner of Nigeria without good roads and commensurate drainage systems of a life span of more than 100 years.
Air Nigeria, after the misadventure with Virgin Nigeria, can now boast of over 2000 aircraft of all sizes and shapes, with services and safety record comparable to any carrier in the world.
Modern track rail routes now move goods and persons to the nooks and crannies of our vast borders.
Marine transportation has also taken its pride place in our hitherto non-existent transportation systems.
Gone were the days when our big men, in and out of government, traveled over the seas for their health needs, because our hospital facilities are current and adjudged, according to WHO data, as some of the best in the world.
All this unparalleled advancement has given birth to a new Nigeria where the cry of marginalization, ethnic strife, and disunity are things of distant memory.
We’re the investor’s heaven here on earth. No corporation of note in the world is without a foothold in Nigeria, the land where green is evergreen. A real brand that doesn’t require Prof. Dora’s lip service rebranding to sell itself.
All I can say is join us if profit and growth are your mission in business.
Now we’ve proved to the likes of Fela Anikulapo Kuti wrong, when he said, “my people self dem fear too much, dem fear to fight for freedom”. We’re free at last through one of the fiercest fights of civil rights ever fought on earth.
We fought tooth and nail to become the third-best economy (IMF’s voice) in the world, and the second least corrupt nation (Transparency International’s verdict) in the world.
Once again, of distant memory, I’m proud to tell that we have removed epileptic power supply from the remotest hamlet in our land. In fact, six sister countries are today paying heavily for our supply of power to their national grid.
In conclusion, our magical transformation now makes millions of citizens of dozens of close to one hundred countries across the globe queue day and night for a choice visa to either visit or stay in Nigeria.
The skeptics of gone by years now sing a different soul song, “me, I love Nigeria, I love the land and people, everything is in Nigeria, let’s join hands to make Nigeria the greatest. Thank you.
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