The National Economic Council has endorsed the Nigeria Agenda 2050, a plan aimed at increasing real Gross Domestic Product growth by seven per cent, creating 165 million new jobs and reducing the number of people living in poverty to 2.1 million in 2050, from the 83 million people estimated in 2020.
This comes more than two years after the President,
Muhammadu Buhari launched the National Steering Committee for the preparation of the Medium-Term National Development Plan 2021 – 2025 and Nigeria Agenda 2050.
Its overarching goal is to take Nigeria through to an Upper Middle-Income Country and subsequently to the status of a High-Income country.
The council approved the agenda after its emergency session and first meeting in 2023 presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, in Abuja on Thursday , after it was presented by the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning to State Governors and other members of the NEC.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, revealed this in a statement signed on Tuesday titled ‘National Economic Council endorses Nigeria Agenda 2050’.
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