Here is a list of things President Muhammadu Buhari promised during his second term campaign.
- Promise to take Nigeria to the next level
- To engage 1 million N-Power graduates.
- To train 10 million Nigerians in various skills.
- Give 1 million farmers inputs and jobs via Anchor borrowers scheme.
- Create 1.5 million jobs through livestock, beef, crop programmes.
- Create 5 million jobs through mechanised agriculture.
- Provide $500m innovation fund for Tech and creative sector to create 500,000 jobs.
- Train 200,000 youths for outsourcing market in tech, services and entertainment.
- Create 6 regional industrial parks and economic zones.
- Increase children fed through the school feeding programme from 9.3 million to 15 million.
- Feeding programme to provide 300, 000 extra jobs for vendors and farmers.
- Complete coastal rail (Lagos-Calabar), 2nd Niger Bridge, East-West road, Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria to Kano road among others.
- Complete Ibadan-Kano rail, Port Harcourt-Maiduguri rail, etc.
- Move broadband coverage to 120,000 km of fibre network across the country.
- Increase power generation by 1000MW every year.
- Raise power distribution to 7000MW; 9 universities, 300 markets and clusters to have interrupted power.
- Implement $550m rural electrification programme.
- Provide N1million soft loans to artisans.
- TraderMoni beneficiaries to be increased from 2.3 million to 10 million.
- Establish 109 One Stop Shops of all regulatory agencies (CAC,NAFDAC, SON, etc).
- To retrain all teachers in public primary and secondary schools.
- To remodel 10,000 schools every year.
- Use co-payments to share the cost of health insurance between individuals, the private sector and government.
- Poorest 40% of Nigerians to be exempted from co-payments.
- Increase population covered by primary health care from 12.6% to 45 % in 2023.
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