PRESIDENT
Muhammadu Buhari has, again, bemoaned the effects of the fall in the
international price of oil, stressing that the country was managing.
Buhari,
who made the statement when he received a Special Envoy of King Mohammed VI of
Morocco, Ambassador Nasser Bourita, on Thursday, said managing the country this
time was like starting afresh.
He
acknowledged that Nigerians were in a hurry to see projects take off in the
nation’s agricultural sector, to enhance food security and create jobs for
teeming unemployed youths.
“For
us in Nigeria, it is like starting all over again. There was a time we had so
much money and took things for granted. But with the fall in the international
price of oil, we are now managing,” he said.
The
president welcomed the plan by Morocco to establish a fertiliser plant in
Nigeria, which would not only serve the country, but the entire West African
sub-region.
The envoy, who is also
Minister-delegate for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, said his country had
developed strategy to deal with religious extremism and had largely been
successful in fighting terrorism.
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