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Key deliverables Nigerians are yearning for from their leaders...


1. The completion of Ajaokuta Steel Rolling Mill. This is critical to jump-start the manufacturing sector in Nigeria.
2. The completion of the dredging of the Rivers Niger and Benue. Logistics is key in the industrialization of any country... Road transportation is not reliable for shipping heavy goods. We need to use our waterways better.
3. The restoration of the textile industry across the length and breadth of Nigeria.
4. The creation of durable economic zones across every state in Nigeria with strong foreign and private sector investment
5. Tackle the perennial power generation and distribution problem
6. Funding of education - competitive scholarship, living wages for university staff, infrastructural development... Free education up to high school level, more vocational training schools, among others.
7. True privatization of the downstream petroleum (refining) sector... More actors that can build refineries will be licensed and provided credits... Sale of all government-owned refineries, with some stakes left for long-term gains.
8. Funding of the Tech sector to make Nigeria the Tech hub in Africa.
9. Fight corruption head-on...
10. Decimate terrorism and stamp out banditry... empower our military by removing corruption and increasing morale for our troops fighting these evil... work with foreign partners for modern equipment to follow these bad elements to wherever they might and make a scapegoat out of a few... There cannot be a prosperous Nigeria when our people are not safe and secure....
11. Make Nigeria the tourist center of choice on the continent of Africa... we are losing a lot of money every year to other countries because of so many factors... visa issue, insecurity, underdeveloped tourism sector, among others... Tourism will bring in so much foreign exchange and help grow supporting businesses...
12. Rebrand our country through strategic campaigns.

If we can get a crop of leaders that will deliver half of the above, we will lift tens of millions of Nigerians out of poverty. We have the people capable of leading and delivering these and more..., we just need to give them the chance... Are we not tired of being the laughing stock of the rest of the world....

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