President Muhammadu Buhari has formally launched Nigeria’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan.
This is even as the state governors pledge to take ownership of the plan and implement it at the sub-national level.
Launching the plan the President said the government will pursue the implementation with the same vigour that they have used to pursue
corruption and other challenges of government.
The minister of budget and national planning, Udoma Udoma, who supervised the birthing of the plan in his remarks said the broad
objectives of the plan is to restore growth, invest in the people and build a globally competitive economy.
He said many of the initiatives in the plan are contained in the 2017 budget proposals which were submitted to the National Assembly in
December last year.
