James Sowole in Abeokuta Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said the best way to get Nigerians out of abject poverty is by turning the country’s growing population into an asset.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said the best way to get Nigerians out of abject poverty is by turning the country’s growing population into an asset.
Obasanjo said: “We lay emphasis on our natural resources and when we talk of our natural resources, we are talking of mine, oil and gas, gold, whatever we can find in the bush or under the ground. But for me, our most important natural resource is human beings. “I like the goals that you have set for yourself in BNI in Nigeria, to support 25,000 businesses, to support one million families and if you take an average of one family being five – father, mother and three children, we are talking of five million people.
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