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Muhammadu Buhari may have won re-election as Nigeria’s president but he faces a daunting list of present and long-term challenges over the next four years.“The hard work to build a better Nigeria continues,” he said in an acceptance speech on Wednesday. The tasks ahead remain broadly the ones he faced when he was first elected in 2015.Buhari was first elected on a promise to defeat Boko Haram and he immediately made significant gains in degrading the Islamist militants.
But NGOs have warned that many areas deemed safe for return remain insecure and that returning residents are still heavily reliant on humanitarian aid.Diversifying an oil-dependent economy was a stated priority in Buhari’s first term and saw attempts to boost agriculture and manufacturing. Buhari could do little about the global slump in oil prices that contributed to a 15-month recession in 2016, which saw millions of job losses and inflation soar to 18 per cent.
In 2050, the UN projects Nigeria will be the third most populous nation in the world with 410 million people. Social welfare programmes provide monthly cash transfers of 50,000 naira to the poorest 300,000 Nigerians and 30,000 naira to those on a government training scheme. But the ranking is low for a country of Nigeria’s size and reflects largely unaddressed government bureaucracy, as well as inadequate infrastructure and poor electricity provision.
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