• Home
  • News
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Jobs
  • Food
  • Health
  • Classified
  • Faith
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Everyday.NG
ADVERTISEMENT
  • Home
  • News
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Jobs
  • Food
  • Health
  • Classified
  • Faith
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Jobs
  • Food
  • Health
  • Classified
  • Faith
No Result
View All Result
Everyday.NG
No Result
View All Result
Home News

World Bank revelation on development of northern Nigeria; presidency reacts

Admin by Admin
13 October 2017
in News
0
World Bank revelation on development of northern Nigeria; presidency reacts
0
SHARES
10
VIEWS
Share on WhatsappShare on FacebookShare on Twitter

Following a cacophony of bristling lash-outs at President Muhammadu Buhari for allegedly asking the World Bank to concentrate its work in northern Nigeria, the presidency has reacted to the controversy, insisting that the President had the devastated north-east in mind when he spoke with the World Bank President.

President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, said Thursday at a press conference in Washington D.C. that the bank had concentrated on the northern region of Nigeria because President Buhari asked the bank to do so.

Kim’s words: “You know, in my very first meeting with President Buhari he said specifically that he would like us to shift our focus to the northern region of Nigeria and we’ve done that. Now, it has been very difficult. The work there has been very difficult.

“I think Nigeria, of course, has suffered from the dropping oil prices. I think things are just now getting better. But the conversation we need to have with Nigeria, I think, is in many ways related to the theme that I brought to the table just this past week, which is investment in human capital. The percentage of the Gross Domestic Product that Nigeria spends on healthcare is less than one percent.”

“Despite that, there is so much turbulence in the northern part of the country, and there is the hit that was taken from the drop in the oil prices. Nigeria has to think ahead and invest in its people. Investing in the things that will allow Nigeria to be a thriving, rapidly growing economy in the future is what the country has to focus on right now.”

“Focusing on the northern part of Nigeria, we hope that as commodity prices stabilise and oil prices come back up, the economy will grow a bit more. But very, very much important is the need to focus on what the drivers of growth in the future will be.”

But presidential spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, offered explanations for his principal’s position, while taking his own pot shots, in a statement titled, NORTH-EAST: DELIBERATE TWISTING OF PRESIDENT BUHARI’S COMMENDABLE INTERFACE WITH WORLD BANK PRESIDENT.

Said Adesina: “Those who specialize in a deliberate twisting of information have wailed and raged endlessly on the news item credited to the World Bank Group President, Jim Yong Kim, who disclosed in Washington DC, United States of America, that President Muhammadu Buhari had requested a concentration of the Bank’s intervention efforts in the northern part of Nigeria, particularly in the North-east.

“The ignorant and mischievous people, who twist everything for their vile purposes, are making it seem that it was a calculated attempt to give the North an unfair advantage over other parts of Nigeria.

“The truth of the matter is that President Buhari, right from his first week in office in June, 2015, had reached out to the G-7 in Germany that Nigeria needed help to rebuild the North-east, which had been terribly devastated by insurgency. He said the country would prefer help in terms of rebuilding of infrastructure, rather than cash donation, which may end up being misappropriated. In concert with Governors of the region, a comprehensive list of needed repairs was sent to the G-7 leaders.

“Also, during a trip to Washington in 2015, and many other engagements that followed, President Buhari sought the help of the World Bank in rebuilding the beleaguered North-east, which was then being wrested from the stranglehold of a pernicious insurgency. It was something always done in the open, and which reflected the President’s concern for the region.

“Those ululating over the disclosure by the President of the World Bank should be a bit reflective, and consider the ravages that the North-east has suffered since 2009, when the Boko Haram insurgency started. Schools, hospitals, homes, entire villages, towns, cities, bridges, and other public utilities have been blown up, laid waste, and lives terminated in excess of 20,000, while widows and orphans littered the landscape. The humanitarian crisis was in monumental proportions.

“President Buhari simply did what a caring leader should do. He took the battle to the insurgents, broke their backs, and then sought for help to rebuild, so that the people could have their lives back. Should that then elicit the negative commentary that has trailed the disclosure from the World Bank? Not at all, except from insidious minds.

“President Buhari has a pan-Nigerian mandate, and he will discharge his duties and responsibilities in like manner. Any part of the country that requires special attention would receive it, irrespective of primordial affinities, which narrow minded people have not been able to live above. This President will always work in the best interest of all parts of the country at all times. Let ethnic warriors sheathe their swords.”

The presidency’s position, notwithstanding, there has been peppery criticisms of the disclosure from the World Bank,  fanning the prevailing narrative that the President has not been even-handed in his dealings along regional and religious lines.

He has been roundly condemned in appointments seen to be skewed in favour of northern Muslims.

 

ADVERTISEMENT
Previous Post

45 Boko Haram members convicted, jailed 3 to 31 years

Next Post

Igbo leaders meet Buhari, take home promises of projects

Admin

Admin

Next Post
Ohaneze Ndigbo’s position on restructuring

Igbo leaders meet Buhari, take home promises of projects

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
UN says US bigger killer of Afghan civilians than Taliban

(Viral video) Is this frightening message for the whole world or America?

7 July 2020

Woman raped by herdsmen In Anambra dies; as viral video, incessant rape builds tension

1 July 2020

(Interview) Gideon Para-Mallam insists Presidency got it wrong on CAN, praises Kukah

11 January 2020

Scandalous video on Success school; govt sacks head-teacher as girl gets help

20 March 2019
“Devaan says,” debuts….I was deceived, what do I do?

“Devaan says,” debuts….I was deceived, what do I do?

6
Restructuring: why it won’t work here

Restructuring: why it won’t work here

3
Diary of an angry and frustrated graduate

Diary of an angry and frustrated graduate

3
Govt, Christian bodies meet over controversial school curriculum

Govt, Christian bodies meet over controversial school curriculum

2

Detention of 14 years old boy after court order; family petitions NASS, PSC, IGP

2 March 2021

Another bad news from Kagara: King dies

2 March 2021

Wicked bandits! Freed Zamfara girls say they walked on them, put sand in rice, pray but bar them

2 March 2021

Sheikh Gumi: Abducting School Students Is Lesser Evil Than Attacking and Killing

1 March 2021

Recent News

Detention of 14 years old boy after court order; family petitions NASS, PSC, IGP

2 March 2021

Another bad news from Kagara: King dies

2 March 2021

Wicked bandits! Freed Zamfara girls say they walked on them, put sand in rice, pray but bar them

2 March 2021

Sheikh Gumi: Abducting School Students Is Lesser Evil Than Attacking and Killing

1 March 2021

Contact us

Everyday.NG

Do you have information, advertisement, event, report, video, or article to share? Please reach Nigeria Everyday (www.everyday.ng) through:
Tel. +234 8022198060
WhatsApp +234 8022198060
Email: info@everyday.ng; matsilas@gmail.com.

Please note that all articles tagged ‘Opinion’ do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Nigeria Everyday (www.everyday.ng), they are the views and position of the writer

Follow Us

Browse by Category

  • Agriculture
  • Business
  • Classified
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Faith
  • Features
  • Food
  • Health
  • Jobs
  • News
  • Obituary
  • Opinion
  • Politics
  • Social Media
  • Sports
  • Uncategorized

Recent News

Detention of 14 years old boy after court order; family petitions NASS, PSC, IGP

2 March 2021

Another bad news from Kagara: King dies

2 March 2021
  • Privacy Policy

© 2019 Nigeria Everyday - Truth Begets Freedom

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Jobs
  • Food
  • Health
  • Classified
  • Faith

© 2019 Nigeria Everyday - Truth Begets Freedom