If we stick to our agenda in the next two years we will see the most significant improvements, in our power sector in history. Industrial Infrastructure is a major component of our economic transformation plan. Project MINE Made in Nigeria for Export is the major plank of our industrial policy. The idea is to build Special Economic Zones which accommodate industries for local manufacture of goods for which Nigeria has a comparative advantage. These include cotton, garments, leatherware etc.
The curriculum will cover primary to secondary education. The Arts component of that vision is extremely important to us. Visual arts, dance, music, film and theatre, comedy, literature – these and many more are fields in which Nigeria is has proved to the world that it is full of talent and originality and ambition. At the highest levels of the government in Abuja, we are creating opportunities to engage with artists to better understand how we can, as a government, support you to succeed.
Primarily, the Service Centre will offer a technological package consisting of machinery and equipment services , quality inputs , technical assistance and training for small holder farmers in order to ensure consistent results of productivity and quality of agriculture produce. The value chain will cover Grains & Cereal, Livestock, Poultry, Fruits, Roots & Tubers, Horticulture and other areas.
The third is the Social investment Programme . The SIP is the largest and most ambitious social protection programme in the history of Nigeria. We provided N500b for it in both 2016 and 2017. But total spend on the programme is closer to 250 billion from both budgets. The programme has four components. The Npower programme our graduate employment scheme is the largest post-tertiary jobs project in Africa.