The Giant Strides and Footprints of Preseident Goodluck Jonathan

Footprints of
Goodluck
Jonathan
Transformation at a Glance
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Footprints
of Goodluck
Jonathan
Transformation
at a Glance

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Footprints
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Jonathan
Transformation
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Introduction
It’s been a very difficult task keeping pace with the various
plans, policies and programmes being executed by the
administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. For an
administration that came into being a couple of years
ago, any close observer will be amazed at the number of
tangible achievements that it has attained. This is in spite
of the instability caused by the unprecedented internal
security challenges which not only gulped enormous
resources but also impeded physical delivery of projects
in some areas.
Contained in this pocket-size book is a compilation
of highlights of the feats recorded so far under the
Transformation Agenda of President Jonathan. You
would agree with me that it is impossible to capture
every detail in a big book, much less in a little book.
The purpose of this booklet is to provide important
information, at a quick glance, to the reader. An
appreciation of the commitment of President Jonathan
to the transformation of Nigeria starts from looking
at the hard facts on what he has done so far. A lot of
these achievements need to be highlighted in case they
have escaped the attention of those who are genuinely
interested in the country’s development.
This is just the first in a series.
Oronto Douglas
Special Adviser to the President on Research,
Documentation and Strategy

Contents
Introduction�� v
Economic Management�� 10
Job Creation�� 13
Non-Oil Exports�� 14
Credit Rating�� 15
Financial Markets�� 18
Insurance�� 19
Oil and Gas�� 20
Ports�� 23
Rail�� 26
Waterways�� 28
Aviation�� 29
Power�� 36
Roads�� 41
Water Resources�� 48
Agriculture�� 52
Housing�� 57
Manufacturing�� 60
ICT�� 62
Health�� 68
Education�� 72
YouWiN�� 78
Armed Forces�� 79
Security�� 81
Political Institutional Reforms�� 87
Sports�� 89
Environment�� 90
Niger Delta�� 91
The Creative Industry�� 92

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• At 7% GDP Growth, Nigeria’s economy is
one of the fastest growing in the world
• The UN Conference on Trade and
Development has named Nigeria as the
No. 1 destination for investments in Africa,
attracting over $7bn in Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI)
• In 2013, 1.6 million jobs were created
directly and indirectly as a result of Federal
Government initiatives
• Exchange Rate has stabilised between N155
and N160 in the last three years
• Inflation Rate now 8% (December 2013),
down from 12.4% in 2011. It is projected
to be at single digit for another year
• External Reserves have reached
$42.9billion, one of Nigeria’s highest ever
• The Sovereign Wealth Fund has been
established with three components: Stability
ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT

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Fund, infrastructure Fund and Future
Generation Fund. This will help protect the
economy against future shocks and provide
for future generations of Nigerians
• Nigeria’s $1 billion Eurobond was
oversubscribed - a sign of confidence in the
country’s economy
• Nigeria’s budget deficit of 1.85% to GDP is
one of the lowest in the world
• Recurrent Expenditure, a major budgetary
headache for decades, is now on the
downward trend
• The introduction of the Government
Integrated Financial Management and
Information system (GIFMIS) has
improved the acquisition, allocation,
utilisation and conservation of public
financial resources, using automated and
integrated, effective, efficient and economic
information systems
ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT (cont’d)

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• Personnel costs are being reduced through
the integrated payroll and personnel
information system (IPPIS). Over N139.6
billion has been saved and 46,821 ghost
workers identified through IPPIS
• With the Treasury Single Account (TSA)
structure of government bank accounts,
there is now a consolidated view of the
cash position; 93 MDAs are currently on
TSA and over government has gone from
an overdraft of N102 billion in 2011 to
an average credit balance of N86 billion in
2013
ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT (cont’d)

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JOB CREATION
Key government programmes focused on direct
job creation include:
1) Community Service Scheme (SURE-P)
• To engage 320,000 youths in labour-
intensive work such as construction
and rehabilitation of social and economic
infrastructure
• About 120,000 employed so far
2) Graduate Internship Scheme (SURE-P)
• The Scheme aims to attach 50,000
graduates to competent firms to enhance
skills development towards employability
• 4,000 graduates have been matched so far
3) YOUWIN!
• The Business Plan Competition has
successfully run two of its three cycles
and is now in its third cycle
• 2400 winners have been selected and
26,000 jobs have been directly created
in different sectors of the economy. At
least 80,000 jobs are expected by 2015

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NON-OIL EXPORTS
• Imports of textiles, plastic rubber, paper
paper-making material have dropped
• Exports of plastic rubber, vegetable
products, prepared foodstuff and beverages
are on the increase
• Non-oil exports have increased to 31%, up
from 8% five years ago

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CREDIT RATING
• Nigeria’s Credit Ratings have improved
because of the strong economic indices,
thereby opening up international
opportunities for Nigerian financial
institutions and other companies

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FINANCIAL MARKETS
• The banking sector has been well managed
and cleaned up in the aftermath of the
financial markets crisis of 2008/2009
• All 24 Nigerian banks are now fully stable
and adequately capitalised
• Non-Performing Loans have fallen to
about 5%
• The capital market also recovered
significantly after a series of policy
interventions
• Stock market capitalisation (value of listed
companies) has increased to N13.23 trillion
• Non-interest banking has been introduced
to offer more options to Nigerians in
their quest for banking services as well
as accommodate cultural and religious
differences in the credit system

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INSURANCE
• Through the introduction of micro-insurance,
compliance with compulsory insurance,
more Nigerians are now aware of insurance
policies
• Number of policy holders has also increased
from 700,000 in 2010 to 1.5 million in 2012
• Claims paid increased from N37 billion in
2010 to N52 billion in 2012

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OIL AND GAS
• There has been stable supply of petroleum
products as well as efficient administration
of the subsidy programme at reduced costs
• Mobilisation has begun for a new free trade
zone in Ogidigben, Delta State, with world-
class petrochemical and fertilizer plants
to be built, creating over five million jobs
across the value chain
• Gas flaring has been reduced from 24% to
18% between 2011 and 2012 - as a result
of the encouragement of accelerated gas
development projects
• The diligent implementation of the amnesty
programme in the Niger Delta has helped
to increase oil production from pre-amnesty
level of 700,000 bpd to the current
2,500,000 bpd
• Nigeria will soon become a major player in
the international gas market through the
implementation of the Nigerian Gas
Master Plan

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OIL AND GAS (cont’d)
• Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)
programme is in full progress with 2000
cars already converted in Benin
• Domestic gas supply to support the power
sector has increased by 72% as part of the
emergency gas supply programme
• Government’s effort at encouraging
indigenous participation in the oil and gas
industry has produced an oil terminalling
facility (Ebok Terminal) established by an
indigenous company, with a current daily
crude oil production of 7,000 barrel per day
and a plateau production of 50,000 bpd at
full capacity
• Nigerians now own crude oil transportation
tankers, flying Nigerian flags. Nigerian-
owned marine vessels have increased from
54 to 388, creating employment for over
30,000 Nigerians
• Onne Oil Gas free trade zone has created
30,000 jobs directly and indirectly

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OIL AND GAS (cont’d)
• The 136km gas pipeline from Oben to
Geregu has been completed
• The 31km Itoki to Olorunsogo gas pipeline
has also been completed

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INFRASTRUCTURE: PORTS
• Ports operating 24 hours for the first time
since 1970
• Clearing time has reduced from 39 days to
7 days for trouble-free cargo
• The number of agencies at the ports has
been reduced from 13 to 7, streamlining
bureaucratic and financial requirements for
clearance and decongestion

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INFRASTRUCTURE: RAIL
• Rail lines that had been moribund
for 15 years have either undergone
or are still undergoing rehabilitation
and modernisation: Lagos-Kano, Port
Harcourt-Maiduguri, Abuja-Kaduna and
Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri
• Passengers carried by rail were 4.2 million
in 2012, compared to 1 million three years
earlier
• Rehabilitation of the Lagos-Ibadan-
Oshogbo-Ilorin-Minna-Kaduna-Zaria-
Kano Narrow Gauge Rail Line has been
completed
• Container cargo freight services from Apapa
Port Complex have commenced
• Rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt-Aba-
Umuahia-Enugu-Makurdi-Lafia-Kuru-
Bauchi-Gombe-Ashaka-Maiduguri with
branch lines at Kuru to Jos and Kafanchan-
Kaduna Narrow Gauge Rail Line is at
various stages of completion

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RAIL (cont’d)
• 25 new locomotives have been supplied by
General Electric, while over 200 coaches
and wagons have been refurbished
• General Electric has committed to
developing a locomotive assembly facility in
Nigeria to handle 200 locomotives in the
next 10 years

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INFRASTRUCTURE: WATERWAYS
• The Inland Waterways provide alternative
means of transporting goods, agricultural
produce and services at relatively low rates
• Dredging of Lower River Niger from Baro
(Niger State) to Warri (Delta State) has
allowed all-year navigation
• Onitsha Port has been completed, while
Baro Port, Lokoja Port and Oguta Port are
under construction
• Volume of cargo transported in the inland
waterways has doubled in the last two years
• Number of passengers travelling by water
was 1.3 million in 2012, compared to a
mere 250,000 the previous year
• Contracts are on course for the dredging of the
Lower River Benue and Makurdi River Ports
• To ease congestion at the ports,
government has approved the establishment
of six Inland Container Depots

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INFRASTRUCTURE: AVIATION
• For the first time ever, Nigeria has an
Aviation Master Plan and Road Map
• There has been a robust revision of the Civil
Aviation National Policy for the first time in
over 12 years.
• For the first time in over three decades,
all 22 federally-owned airports across the
country are being remodelled, resulting in
improved passenger experience
• For the first time also, five modern
international passenger terminals are being
constructed simultaneously in Lagos, Abuja,
Port Harcourt, Kano and Enugu
• Obsolete power infrastructure is being
replaced/upgraded across major airports in
the country
• Fire-fighting infrastructure now state-of-
the-art across the airports

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AVIATION (cont’d)
• Installation of cutting-edge navigational aids
and Instruments Landing Systems (ILS),
including runway lights and Total Radar
Coverage (TRACON), to enhance air safety
• Installation of modern, state-of-the-
art Communication and Surveillance
infrastructure, making communication
between Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) and
Pilots much more seamless
• State-of-the-art Meteorological
infrastructure (Doppler Weather Radars,
Low-Level Wind Shear Alerts Systems-
LLWSAS) to enhance accurate, timely
weather observation, forecasting and
reporting
• Security infrastructure is also being
replaced/upgraded to cope with emerging
security challenges

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AVIATION (cont’d)
• Installation of an Accident Investigation and
Analysis Laboratory in Nigeria. It is one of
the only four in Africa and the only one in
the West African sub-region
• Designation of six Hajj and six Christian
pilgrim Terminals
• Upgrade of NCAT’s training capabilities,
expanding beneficial relationships that
support training and human capital
development in the aviation sector
• Restructuring of Parastatals to deliver best
performance and services
• Restructuring of the Nigerian Civil Aviation
Authority (NCAA) to expand and promote
safety oversight, surveillance and human
capital development in the industry
• Development of comprehensive economic
and consumer protection regulations,
including a Statement of Passenger Rights

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AVIATION (cont’d)
• Streamlining of General Aviation (GA)
to eliminate unauthorised commercial
operations, promote scheduled airlines’
profitability and safety
• Elimination of unfavourable Concession
and Lease Agreements that were
inconsistent with the public interest,
industry growth and advancement
• Promotion of private sector and
international investors’ participation in
Nigerian Aviation sector
• Deployment of modern technology and
digitisation of records and processes
• Creation of cutting-edge revenue collection
solutions which eliminate corruption,
increase revenue and promotes transparency
and efficiency
• Stringent regime of enforcement, reward
for complete compliance and denial of
privileges for violations

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AVIATION (cont’d)
• More friendly operating environment for
domestic carriers
• New leasing company for Aircraft
• Six airports, namely Jos, Makurdi, Yola,
Jalingo, Lagos and Ilorin, which are
strategically located in proximity to food
baskets have been designated as perishable
cargo airports and international standards
perishable cargo facilities are being
developed at these airports. A new Cargo
Development Division has been established
in FAAN to give focus to this effort

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INFRASTRUCTURE: POWER
• President Jonathan launched the Nigerian
Power Sector Reform Roadmap in 2010 to
address the power supply deficit
• Unbundled PHCN companies (11
distribution and 6 generation companies)
have been successfully privatised and
handed over to new owners
• The Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trader
(NBET) has been established to drive
private sector investment into the industry
by executing bankable power purchase
agreements with power developers
• The transmission of power has been
concessioned to upgrade and expand the
national grid network
• Average hours of power availability in 10
major cities has increased from a low of
less than nine hours in 2011 to around 15
hours today

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POWER (cont’d)
• Licensing has been done to facilitate
privatisation of 34 IPPs
• Federal Government has entered into an
MOU with worldwide leaders in the power
sector, General Electric, to invest up to 15%
equity in power projects in the country
summing up to 10,000mw capacity by the
year 2020
• GE also proposes to establish local
packaging facility for small aero-derivative
turbines in Nigeria
• An MoU with similar commitment has
also been signed with Siemens, Germany.
Siemens proposes to increase thermal
generating capacity of up to 10,000mw by
investing equity of 15% per Independent
Power Project
• Siemens will also establish an in-country
service workshop as well as fund the study
of an integration of renewable energy
sources to conventional source

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POWER (cont’d)
• The Federal Government has signed an
MOU with Daewoo E C of Korea
to invest up to 20% equity per project
summing up to 10,000mw
• Eletrobras of Brazil also signed an MoU
with the Federal Government to invest in
both thermal and hydro generating sources
as well as in the transmission network of
Nigeria
• The Ex-Im Bank of the United States of
America signed an MoU with the Federal
Government to provide an investment
window of up to $1.5billion for investors
willing to invest in the Nigerian power
sector. This is the first time such an amount
will be made available by the US Exim Bank
for a specific sector in Africa
• The PoweWaterr Construction Corporation
(PCC) of China has signed an MOU with
the Federal Government to invest in the
construction of 20,000 mw gas power and
10,000km transmission line

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POWER (cont’d)
• New units at the thermal power stations
have been completed to increase existing
generation capacity. This was done in the
following locations: Olorunshogo in Ogun
State, 563MW; Sapele in Delta State,
225 MW; and Omotosho in Ondo State,
112.5MW
• Xian Electric Engineering Co. Ltd has
signed an MOU for the financing and
turnkey delivery of Nigerian Transmission
Upgrading Project to the tune of $1 billion
• Expansion of gas supply and infrastructure
• New procurement for power from IPPs
(Greenfield)
• Commencement of the development of 2 x
1000mw coal-fired power plants at Enugu,
Gombe, Kogi and Benue axis; and 27
small/medium hydropower projects
• Ground breaking ceremony for the 700MW
Zungeru Hydro Plant in Niger State

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POWER (cont’d)
• Kick-off of the Access to Power Initiative
(Operation Electrify Nigeria) of the Federal
Ministry of Power
• Lifeline tariff of N4/kwh for those
consuming below 50 kwh/month
• Ongoing negotiation on Mambila
Hydroelectric Power Project award to
produce 3050mw of electricity
• The Technical Monitoring Committee has
been constituted by Federal Ministry of
Finance to coordinate African Development
Bank’s support loan of $185.2 million to
the power sector
• Two private sector-led, federal government-
backed solar plants of 1000mw each under
construction in Yobe and Kano States

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INFRASTRUCTURE: ROADS
• A total of 2000 kilometres of road were
built or rehabilitated as at the end of
2013 - the highest in a single year by any
government
• Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, Benin-
Ore-Shagamu Highway and Enugu-
Port Harcourt dual carriage are being
reconstructed
• Kano-Maiduguri and Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja
are undergoing dualisation
• Oweto Bridge across River Benue is being
constructed
• Onitsha-Owerri and Vom-Manchok roads
have been completed
• Onitsha-Enugu road and Lokoja-Benin road
are being reconstructed and expanded
• Construction works have also commenced
on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
Reconstruction and Expansion

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ROADS (cont’d)
• Second Niger Bridge project has been
concessioned to Julius Berger/AIM
Consortium. Early works have commenced
• Work is progressing on the Reconstruction
of Mokwa-Bide Road, Akure-Ilesha Road,
Sokoto-Tambuwal-Jega Road, Enugu-
Abakaliki Road, Ogoja-Ikom Road and
Vandekiya-Obudu Road, among others
• Commencement of sustained Preventive
Road Maintenance programme along all
critical Federal Roads nationwide
• Recovery and sustained maintenance of
over 60% of Federal Roads total length
• Increased good and safe motorable
length of Federal Roads from about 52%
(17,742km) to over 83% (28,320km)

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ROADS (cont’d)
Condition 2011 (%KM) 2013 (%KM)
Good 52% (17,742KM) 83% (28,320KM)
Bad 48% (16,378KM) 17% (5,800KM)
• Procurement and distribution of 38 state-
of-the-art Bergkamp FP5 Mobile Pothole
patchers for all-year round road repairs
• Installation and commencement of
Asphaltic Concrete Production from two
Major 80TPH FERMA Asphalt plants in
2012
• Introduction of the FERMA-SURE P
Public works Programme, engaging and
training over 6,000 Nigerian youths on
road maintenance works thereby creating
a social safety net and Road ownership
attitude with abutting communities
• Quick intervention/communication call
lines for Public-Government interaction on
conditions of Federal Roads nationwide

Kano-Maiduguri road
Eastern Bypass

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ROADS (cont’d)
• Commencement of full-scale production
of Cold Asphaltic concrete mix for all year
round intervention on road failures all over
the country
• Systematic replacement of weak box culverts
with short bridges and reinstatement of
vandalised bridge handrails along critical
highways
• Provision of road support services to over
90 locations for accident victims (first aid)
and police intervention on flash points
nationwide
• Commencement of the National Joint
Programme of Action Against Road Abuses
and Routine Surveillance to prolong Road
pavement life span and protect Road assets
nationwide
• Effective routine use of over 40 mini
Asphalt plant for regular production
and utilization of hot rolled Asphalt for
proactive road maintenance works

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ROADS (cont’d)
• Ensuring sustained vegetation control along
major Federal highways thus improving
intervisibility, checking the heinous activities
of hoodlums along highways and reducing
the rate of accidents due to blind curves and
overgrown weed
• Provision of street lightings along usually
dark urban stretches of Federal highways
and major bridges across the country

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WATER RESOURCES
• Seven water supply projects have been
completed, providing about 4.3 million
Nigerians access to potable water
• Over 4,000 jobs were created in the process
• As at 2012, 65.29% of the population had
access to safe water, compared to 60% in
2011
• Nine dams have been completed in Akwa
Ibom, Katsina, Enugu and Ondo States to
increase volume of nation’s water reservoir
by 422mcm
• Size of irrigated area has more than doubled
from 90,000 hectares in 2010 to 175,000
hectares in 2012 and increased production
of over 400,000 metric tonnes of irrigated
food products
• 375,000 farmers had access to irrigated land
in 2012, up from 236,000 in 2011

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WATER RESOURCES (cont’d)
• Progress has been made on major projects
such as the South Chad Irrigation Project,
the Bakolori Irrigation Project and the
Galma Dam

Onitsha-Owerri dual carriageway

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AGRICULTURE
• Four decades of corruption in fertilizer and
seed distribution ended with direct access
by farmers, thereby saving the government
N25 billion in 2012 alone
• Over 250,000 farmers and youths in
Northern states now profitably engaged in
farming
• First ever database of farmers has been
developed with 6 million farmers registered
and now being updated/monitored
annually
• Nigeria is first African country to develop
e-wallet for input delivery to farmers,
eliminating sharp practices by middlemen
• Private sector seed and fertilizer companies
now sell directly to farmers. Over N15
billion of fertilizers and N1.5 billion of
seeds were sold directly via e-wallet system

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AGRICULTURE (cont’d)
• Dry season production through irrigation
kick-started in 10 Northern states - Kebbi,
Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina, Kano, Jigawa,
Gombe, Niger, Kogi and Bauchi - resulting
in an output of 1.07 million metric tonnes
• Combined production of Dry Season and
Main Season paddy now 1.76 million metric
tonnes - unprecedented in Nigeria’s history
• Government policies have led to the establish-
ment of 13 new rice mills by private investors
• Nigeria is on the road to being self-
sufficient in rice production
• Production has expanded for high quality
cassava flour to substitute imported wheat
in the baking industry
• There is further boost for non-oil export
as China has ordered 3.2 million metric
tonnes of dried cassava chips for ethanol
production

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• Nigeria’s food import bill reduced from
N1.1 trillion in 2011 to N648 billion in
2012, placing the country firmly on the
path to food self-sufficiency
• Over 8 million metric tonnes of food were
added to domestic supply in 2012, about
70% above projection
• The government recently launched a
self-employment initiative under the
Youth Employment in Agriculture
Programme (YEAP) called the
Nagropreneur programme. This scheme,
designed to encourage youth to go into
commercial agriculture as entrepreneurs,
plans to develop over 750,000 young
Nagropreneurs by 2015
• The Federal Government launched
Staple Crop Processing Zones to support
investments in the entire agricultural value
chain. At present, there are significant
private investment commitments from
agribusiness ventures such as: Flour Mills

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of Nigeria, the Dangote Group, Syngenta,
Indorama, AGCO, and Belstar Capital
• In 2012, 2.2 million metric tonnes of
cassava chips were exported, exceeding
the target by over 100% while the 40%
substitution of cassava for wheat has been
achieved through research and collaboration
with the IITA and Federal Institute for
Industrial Research
• There was a decline in wheat imports to
Nigeria from an all-time high of 4,051,000
MT in 2010 to 3,700,000 MT in 2012
• President Jonathan has launched the Dry
Season Farm Support Programme to
encourage dry season farming with N14bn,
representing an increase of 56% over
the 2013 season. Over 600,000 farmers
registered, representing an increase of 125%
over 2013
• A 65-year-old US-trained Nigerian
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the ‘Farmking’ , a locally made 4-in-1
multipurpose farm mechaniser
• The Bank of Industry has signed an
agreement with six tractor companies for
the local production of tractors and fittings
to boost the agricultural revolution
• Silo capacity has been increased over 300%
since the reforms in agriculture started

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HOUSING
• Over 61,000 housing units have been
built in six geopolitical zones to provide
affordable and quality houses
• The Nigerian Mortgage Refinancing
Company (NMRC), a PPP arrangement,
has been set up to enable up to 200,000
affordable mortgages within five years
• World Bank has agreed to support Federal
Government with investment of up to $300
million zero-interest, 40-year loan, 10 years
grace and 0.7% commitment charge - to
lower costs, particularly lending rates

Onitsha Head Bridge
with 3 additional lanes
up to Upper Iweka junction

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MANUFACTURING
• With the large domestic market, the
policy is geared towards encouraging
import substitution where Nigeria has a
comparative advantage, and exports, where
we can be competitive internationally
• Federal Government has developed the
National Industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP)
on the entire value chain of sub-sectors
such agro-processing (e.g. rice milling,
sugar procession, cassava for wheat flour
and other products, etc., consumer goods
manufacturing, cement, textiles, and
petrochemicals)
• It has also developed the Sugar Master Plan
(NSMS) to provide roadmap for 100% local
production of sugar
• Nigeria is now a net exporter of cement.
Nigeria has moved from producing 2
million metrictonnes of cement in 2002 to a
capacity of 28.5 million metric tonnes today

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MANUFACTURING (cont’d)
• With no permit issued in 2012 for cement
importation, savings of over N200 billion
were made
• The Onne Oil and Gas Free zone has been
transformed with $6 billion invested leading
to the attraction of 150 companies into the
zone with 30,000 jobs created to date
• Foreign investments in manufacturing
have been on the rise e.g. Indorama’s $1.2
billion fertilizer plant at Onne, Procter
Gamble’s $250 million consumer goods
plant in Ogun State, SAB Miller’s $100
million brewery at Onitsha
• Nigeria has negotiated a strong Common
External Tariff (CET) agreement with our
ECOWAS partners which would enable us
to protect our strategic industries where
necessary

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ICT
• Government policies have helped the
telecoms sector to grow exponentially
• The ICT sector is the fastest growing sector
in the country
• The telecommunications industry currently
contributes 8.53% to the GDP, compared
to 0.62% in 2001
• Mobile phone/voice penetration has
increased to 85.25% of the population,
compared to 0.73% in 2001
• There are over 50 million mobile internet
subscriptions in Nigeria
• Government currently delivers more than
50 services online, including passport
and driving licence application process
compared to 30 at the end of 2012

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ICT (cont’d)
• 250 websites hosted on “.gov.ng” platform
and 420 MDAs connected
• Nigerian e-commerce companies are some
of the fastest growing companies in the
world
• Two IT Development Entrepreneur
Accelerators (iDEA hubs) have been
launched in Yaba, Lagos and Tinapa, Cross
River State
• 27 Federal Universities connected via
10GBps meshed trunk circuits, to form the
Nigerian Research Education Network
(Ng REN) with connectivity to other
international research networks
• National Broadband Plan approved in May
2013
• NigComSat-1R satellite was launched to
provide more options for distributed access
and rural connectivity

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ICT (cont’d)
• The IT transformation has also led to online
shopping in Nigeria, previously unheard
of. Value of online shopping grew 25% to
N62.4 billion in 2011 from N49.9 billion
in 2010
• Nigeria has developed locally produced
tablets, equivalent to the iPad
• Construction of 500km of fibre-optic cable
to rural areas, with 3,000km more targeted
for deployment in 2013/2014
• A total of 266 Public Access Venues were
established in 2013: 156 Rural IT Centres,
110 Community Communication Centres
• Facilitation of the deployment of mobile
communications base stations in rural areas
of Nigeria. A total of 59 Base Stations have
been installed thus far, with an additional
1,000 planned for 2014
• Provision of wholesale internet bandwidth
to Internet Service Providers, Cybercafes,

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ICT (cont’d)
and ICT centres like Community
Communication Centres (CCC) in rural
communities – connectivity to 12 out of 18
pilot sites completed
• Provision of computing facilities to 74
tertiary institutions and 218 public schools
across the country
• Establishment of innovation centres to
support entrepreneurs in the ICT sector
and a Venture Capital fund of $15 million
for ICT businesses

African Champions,
Super Eagles of Nigeria
photo credit: reuters/thomas mukoya

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HEALTH
• There has been an improved access to
primary healthcare
• Under the “Saving One Million Lives”
initiative, over 433,650 lives were saved
from November 2012 to June 2013 by
scaling up six cost-effective interventions
including Maternal Child Health,
Nutrition, Prevention of Mother to Child
Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, Provision
of Essential Commodities, Malaria Control,
Routine Immunisation/Eradication of
Polio
• 1500 primary healthcare facilities have been
refurbished and supplied with essential
drugs
• Several teaching hospitals and medical
centres have been rehabilitated and
modernised e.g. OAU and UNIBEN
teaching hospitals
• Establishment of the Nigeria Centre for
Disease Control (NDCD)

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HEALTH (cont’d)
• Maternal mortality has dropped by more
than 50% in Midwives Service Scheme
(MSS) facilities from 2009 to 2012
• MOU has been signed with General Electric
(GE) for the establishment of private world
class specialist hospitals and diagnostic
centres under PPP arrangement
• Overseas component of the Residency
Training Programme to build the capacity
of health professionals with 60 doctors
benefiting
• Open heart surgeries have resumed at the
University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital,
Enugu since March, 2013 and over
25 patients have so far been operated
successfully. This was followed by the
resumption of open heart surgery at the
University College Hospital Ibadan in
October, 2013
• The country has reduced the prevalence of
malaria in children

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HEALTH (cont’d)
• Capacity for kidney transplant has been
strengthened within the last one year with
Lagos University Teaching Hospital and
University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital
joining the league
• Since the launch of the Community-Based
Health Insurance Scheme, the scheme
has been fully established in a number of
communities in 12 states, thereby granting
medical access to poor Nigerians
• Health insurance coverage increased from
6% in 2011 to 8% in 2013
• The National Immunisation Coverage
increased from 38% in 2012 to 82% in 2013
• Under-5 mortality is down to 94/1000 live
births from 157/1000 live births
• Maternal Mortality ratio has reduced from
545/100,000 in 2008 to 350/100,000 live
births in 2012

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HEALTH (cont’d)
• Total elimination of malaria is the next
target of the government
• Guinea worm disease, which previously
affected over 800,000 lives yearly, has been
eradicated from Nigeria
• Introduction, for the first time in the
history of Nigeria, a curriculum for the
training of paramedics
• In 2013, government recruited 11,300
frontline health workers who were deployed
to under-served communities across the
country
• Over 400,000 lives have been saved
through various interventions
• For the first time in the history of
the country, there has not been any
transmission of the Type-3 Wild Polio virus
for more than one year

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EDUCATION
• In order to reduce the 10.5 million out of
school children in the country, a number
of special intervention programmes such
as the Almajiri Education, the Girl-Child
Education and Back-to-School were
initiated
• In 13 states, special girl schools are being
constructed while in 27 states, 125 day and
boarding schools are being constructed
under the Almajiri education programme
• 12 new universities (9 in the North, 3 in
the South) have been established to
enhance access to a Federal University
across the country and absorb thousands of
students who are denied university admission
every year
• High Impact Fund to support higher
institutions of learning has been established
to become Centres of Excellence in specific
areas. Each selected University gets N3
billion; Polytechnics and Colleges of
Education N1 billion

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EDUCATION (cont’d)
• A total of 101 Presidential Special
Scholarships for Innovation and
Development (PRESSID) have been
awarded to beneficiaries for training in top
25 universities in the world
• As a result of these interventions, enrolment
in basic schools increased from 23 million
in 2010 to 29 Million in 2012. This will
further increase with the handing over of
Almajiri Schools to state governments
• Over 100 Innovation Enterprise Institutions
have been licensed to provide alternative
access to higher education through
technical and vocational education and
training
• The number of National Certificate of
Education (NCE) awarding institutions has
increased from 96 to 124 since 2011
• To improve the quality of instruction,
Federal Government has sponsored 7,000
lecturers of federal and state tertiary

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institutions for post-graduate studies home
and abroad
• Student enrolment in the Colleges of
Education has increased from 620,000 in
2011 to 750,000 in 2013 – a 20% increase
• The National Open University of Nigeria
(NOUN) is expanding its capacities to
increase enrolment to 250,000 annually
• Laboratories in the 51 Federal and State
Polytechnics have been rehabilitated with
state-of-the-art equipment
• In 2013, Federal Government rehabilitated
352 laboratories and constructed 72
newlibraries in the Federal Unity Schools
• Micro-teaching laboratories are being
constructed in 58 Federal and State
Colleges of Education across the Federation

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• Between 2007 and 2013, Federal
Government has almost tripled the
allocation for education from N224 billion
to N634 billion

Blessing Okagbare received
two medals - long jump Silver and 200m
bronze - at the 2013 World Athletics
Championships in Moscow, Russia
photo credit: nigeria2z.com

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YouWIN!
• Government has introduced the Female
Teacher Trainee Scholarship Scheme to give
opportunities to women from marginalised,
remote, rural areas to acquire skills and
knowledge and train as teachers
• The Youth Enterprise with Innovation
in Nigeria (YouWiN!) Programme has
trained 12,000 aspiring or existing young
entrepreneurs
• YouWiN! is presently funding 1,200
entrepreneurs identified in the first round of
the three round competition
• It has dentified 1,200 women in May 2013
across the six geopolitical zones to receive
funding in the second round
• As at March 2013, a total of 12,108 jobs
had been created across the country in
the early stages of the first round. At least
80,000 jobs are expected by the end of the
third round in 2015

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ARMED FORCES
• Development of a National Counter
Terrorism Strategy (NACTEST)
• Capacity, equipment and logistics have
been overhauled for counter-terrorism and
counter insurgency
• Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency
Centre has been set up
• Department of Civil Military Affairs, Army
Transformation and Innovation Centre and
the Directorate of Campaign Planning have
been established at the Army Headquarters
• New formations and units have been set up
to enhance operational capability
• Compo Ration Manufacturing Factory has
been established
• The Nigerian Army Language Institute,
conceived to make Army personnel
bi-lingual within two years, has been
established

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ARMED FORCES (cont’d)
• Dog Centre has been established

• Nigerian Army has built the first locally
made Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC)
• The first made-in-Nigeria warship has come
on board
• The first made-in-Nigeria unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV or “drone”) named GULMA
was built by the Nigerian Air Force
• There have been successful test flights
of other UAVs named AMEBO II and
AMEBO III and commencement of the
design of AMEBO IV
• Installation of ground stations for real-time
streaming of aerial surveillance pictures and
videos

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SECURITY
• Following unprecedented security
challenges, the National Security Strategy
has been marshalled to advance the nation’s
strategic approach and strengthen the
security and resilience at home
• Government has made very significant
progress in the fight against terrorism.
The influence of the Boko Haram group
has greatly been whittled down
• Government has passed into law “The
Prevention of Terrorism Act 2011”
which provides for measures for the
protection, prohibition and combating
of acts of terrorism, the financing of
terrorism in Nigeria and for the effective
implementation of the Convention on the
Prevention and Combating of Terrorism
and the Convention on the Suppression of
the Financing of Terrorism
• The need for better cohesion on the part of
security agencies has led to the streamlining
of their roles

Patique tem dem conderei igilla notatil icaudet iostem nunt fuius ium
AMEBO III drone
produced by the Nigerian Air Force
Institute of Technology
photo credit: beegeagle’s blog

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SECURITY (cont’d)
• The declaration of a State of Emergency in
Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States marked
a turnaround in the fight against the Boko
Haram sect
• Insurgents have moved away from urban
areas to remote and border areas which
made it easier for the security forces to
isolate the sect
• Many urban areas which hitherto were
under heavy influence of the sect became
liberated and ensured the resumption of
normal socio-economic activities
• The Office of the National Security Adviser
has evolved an effective crisis management
process which clearly defines the procedures
to adopt by security agencies and organs of
government in the event of a crisis
• Bilateral and multilateral partnerships with
USA, UK, Germany, Canada, Germany,
Israel, Lebanon, Algeria, Niger, Benin,
Chad and Cameroon

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SECURITY (cont’d)
• To ensure effective policing and a
turnaround in the fortunes of the
Nigeria Police, government embarked on
comprehensive Police Reforms. This reform
which has been ongoing is intended to
transform the Police into a more efficient
force in the next six years
• The reforms intend to overhaul the
equipment and logistic holding of the
Police, and upgrade its training, among
other benefits
• Installation of round-the-clock CCTV
around Abuja and Lagos to fight crime.
Other cities will come under coverage soon
• Enhancing Counter-Terrorism capabilities
through the emplacement of cyber-security
framework, National Crisis Management
Centre and National Computer Emergency
Response Team (N-CERT)
• Improved intelligence gathering and sharing
by all security agencies

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SECURITY (cont’d)
• Reform of criminal justice system with
the establishment of a Terrorism Offences
Prosecution Office in the Ministry of Justice
• Emplacement of a comprehensive
Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)
programme to re-orientate detained or
imprisoned combatants

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POLITICAL INSTITUTIONAL
REFORMS
• With commitment to non-interference
in the electoral process, and a complete
free hand to the security agencies and the
Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC), elections in Nigeria have been
universally acknowledged as credible. Recent
examples are the governorship polls in Edo,
Ondo and Kogi states
• President Jonathan has continued to
encourage gender empowerment in his
appointments. He has entrenched the 35%
Affirmative Action as regards women in
governance through the appointment of
13 female ministers (out of 42) and four
Special Advisers (out of 18) into his cabinet
• Institution-building through the
strengthening of anti-graft agencies without
interference from the president
• Convocation of a national conference for
Nigerians to dialogue on national issues as
part of the political evolution of Nigeria

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POLITICAL INSTITUTIONAL
REFORMS (cont’d)
• Liberalisation of political space, thereby
allowing actors their freedom of speech
and freedom of association without any
victimisation or persecution
• Non-interference in the National Assembly,
leading to stable leadership

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SPORTS
• After the failure at the 2012 London
Olympics, President Jonathan convened
a presidential retreat on sports and far-
reaching decisions were reached to improve
Nigeria’s performance in international
competitions
• Subsequently, Super Eagles won 2013
Africa Cup of Nations after 19 years
• The Golden Eaglets won the U-17 World
Cup in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
• The Flying Eagles finished 3rd at U-20
African Championship in Algeria
• Nigeria placed 1st at the 2012 Senior
African Athletics Championship in Port
Novo with 10 Gold, 6 Silver and 5 Bronze
medals

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ENVIRONMENT
• Launch of the multibillion naira Great
Green Wall project to fight desertification
all the way from Sokoto State in the North-
West to Borno State in the North-East
• Raising of 6,720,000 seedlings in seven
desertification front line states, Adamawa,
Bauchi, Jigawa, Yobe, Kebbi, Katsina, Kano,
Yobe, Sokoto and Borno States, under the
Great Green Wall Sahara Projects
• Launch of the North-East Development
Programme to accelerate development in
the region, tackle environmental challenges,
protect livelihoods, create jobs and fight
poverty
• Establishment of 13 web-based Flood Early
Warning Systems (FEWS) in Benue, Kebbi,
Ibadan, Abeokuta, Port Harcourt, Akure,
Minna, Sokoto, Ilorin, Benin City, Kebbi,
Benue and Kaduna
• Effective oil spill management in the Niger
Delta

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NIGER DELTA
• Stability in the Niger Delta region after
years of restiveness
• Successful implementation of the Amnesty
Programme for ex-militants
• Training and retraining of ex-militants and
community members
• Scholarships for thousands of Niger Delta
youths
• Constant and consistent peace-making and
peace-building in the oil-bearing region

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THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY
• President Jonathan approved special
support for the creative industry and
directed Nex-Im Bank to provide backing
to the industry. Many in the industry have
benefited from this initiative
• The Jonathan Administration, through
the Project Advancing Creativity and
Technology (PACT) in Nollywood, has
provided a N3 billion grant programme for
Nollywood
• In 2013, the Fund supported capacity
building and film production in the industry

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