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BUHARI ADMINISTRATION FIFTH ANNIVERSARY FACTSHEET (MAY 2020)

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ECONOMY AGRICULTURE • The Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP) of the Central Bank of Nigeria, launched by President Muhammadu Buhari on November 17, 2015, has made available more than 200 billion Naira in funding to more than 1.5 million smallholder farmers of 16 different commodities (Rice, Wheat, Maize, Cotton, Cassava, Poultry, Soy Beans, Groundnut, Fish), cultivating over 1.4 million hectares of farmland. • The ABP has substantially raised local production of rice, doubling the production of paddy as well as milled rice between 2015 and 2019. • Between 2016 and 2019, more than 10 new rice mills came on-stream in Nigeria. Many of the existing Mills have expanded their capacity; several new ones are under construction. • More than a billion dollars of private sector investments in the production of Rice, Wheat, Sugar, Poultry, Animal Feed, Fertilizers, etc, since 2015. • Federal Executive Council approval (2020) for a National Agriculture Mechanization Programme, “the Green Imperativ

CHANGE MUST COME FROM ALL NIGERIANS - Lauretta Onochie

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In 1999, Nigeria returned to democratic rule. It was very surreal. It was a very happy feeling being counted as one from a democratic nation. And so Nigerians embraced democracy having been under military rule for many years. We had high hopes that within the shortest possible time, Nigeria will join the League of Nations in terms of democratic, economic, electoral and infrastructural reforms. Sixteen years down the line, Nigerians awoke from a great slumber to see that the sort of reforms brought by those who assumed power from 1999 to 2015 were not reforms Nigerians needed. What Nigerians needed were far removed from what was on the table. The CULTURE OF SHARING was firmly entrenched with the resultant  consequence the if one was not "Connected", his family was left behind, in abject poverty. But one can only offer what they have and that was how PDP caged the nation in poverty, lawlessness and impunity. Everything was subject to manipulation. No processes wer