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Nigeria at 59: Abiodun assures a better future

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Ogun State Governor&comma; Prince Dapo Abiodun has assured Ogun people and indeed&comma; Nigerians&comma; a&NewLine;better future&period; He &nbsp&semi;stated this at the 59th Independence Day&NewLine;celebration held &nbsp&semi;at the M&period;K&period;O&NewLine;Abiola Stadium&comma; Kuto&comma; Abeokuta&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He urged Nigerians not to lose hope in the&NewLine;country as her current travails would be a thing of the past&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He said despite the socio-economic and security&NewLine;challenges&comma; the &&num;8220&semi;Nigerian spirit&&num;8221&semi; was still keeping the nation going&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Prince Abiodun&comma; who paid glowing tributes to the nation&&num;8217&semi;s&NewLine;founding fathers for their untiring efforts in seeing to the development and unity of Nigeria&comma; said&NewLine;59 years of nationhood was fraught with civil war&comma; military rules and political&NewLine;&nbsp&semi;upheavals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&&num;8220&semi;For our country to overcome her challenges&comma;&NewLine;Nigerians must be patriotic&comma; put behind ethnic differences and realise that we&NewLine;are Nigerians before any other affiliations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&&num;8220&semi;We should &nbsp&semi;love our country and discharge with&NewLine;commitment whatsoever that is committed to our care&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He advised those seeking for greener pastures in other&NewLine;countries to stay back to salvage the&NewLine;nation&comma; just as it is imperative for both the leaders and followers to&NewLine;join hands in the task of nation-building&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Governor said as partners in the Nigeria project&comma; his&NewLine;administration would tap into&NewLine;the vast natural resources and the great potentials that abound in the State&NewLine;and maximise the benefits to make life more abundant to the people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&&num;8220&semi;No&NewLine;goverment has the monopoly of resources to engender a wholesome and&NewLine;sustainable development&period; There is need for collaboration with other&NewLine;stakeholders&comma; especially the private&NewLine;sector to build our State&comma;&&num;8221&semi;&NewLine;the Governor noted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He said to achieve collaborative goals&comma; his&NewLine;administration has launched a job portal to register the unemployed&comma;&NewLine;established Ogun TECHUB to launch the State into the digital world&comma; reposition&NewLine;the education sector&comma; while health institutions are receiving facelift with the&NewLine;rehabilitation and provision of modern equipment in hospitals across the State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Governor Abiodun noted&NewLine;that his administration is poised&NewLine;to turn around the State environment and improve the landscape by&NewLine;upgrading the State Master Plan&comma; renew designated industrial hubs with the&NewLine;provision of power and good infrastructure by leveraging on gas pipelines across the State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He disclosed that&NewLine;the State now has a Business Advisory Council&comma;&NewLine;while a Public Private &nbsp&semi;Partnership Office has also been established&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Governor&comma; while assuring the people of better days&NewLine;ahead&comma; promised &nbsp&semi;that his government&NewLine;would create the enabling environment&NewLine;for individuals to achieve their aspirations as no one would be unfairly&NewLine;treated as a result of political&comma; ethnic&comma; religious or social status&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He added &nbsp&semi;that with the unwavering commitment to&NewLine;national rebirth by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari&comma; Nigeria&NewLine;would regain its pride of place in the comity of nations and as the leading&NewLine;light of the Black race&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&&num;8220&semi;Nigeria is designed to be a global powerhouse and&NewLine;the government is doing everything possible to actualise the potential of the&NewLine;country&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Governor Abiodun said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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