President
Muhammadu Buhari, while addressing a delegation of Federal Capital Territory
Residents who paid him Christmas homage in the Presidential Villa has lamented
that 2017 has been a very tough year for Nigerians. The Nation Newspaper on
December 26 reports that the president expressed optimism that 2018 will be a
more prosperous year.
We
can recall that around September 2017, the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics
declared that Nigeria’s economy is officially out of recession, having recorded
0.55% growth in Gross Domestic Product for the second quarter of 2017. When the
‘out of recession’ news was released, some Nigerians claimed it by faith and
reacted positively to it, while many Nigerians dismissed the news; not because they
do not want Nigeria to be out of recession but because they have not seen the
reality of the fact that Nigeria is out of recession. As long as Nigeria is
concerned, the standard of living of many Nigerians is nothing to write home
about, so to them, the news of been out of recession is nothing but a theory.
President
Buhari has come up with another word of hope, saying that 2018 will be a more
prosperous year. We are not faithless people but please Nigerians are tired of
living in the world of hope created by selfish leaders and selfish self
acclaimed men of God. Let there be workable programmes to realize those words
of hope!
Written by Olive Chinyere Amajuoyi
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