May 29, the long-awaited day for the exit of the Muhammadu Buhari administration and the inauguration of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu tenure, is here. The debate as
In a newly released report tagged ‘KPMG Global Economy Outlook report, H1 2023,’ it said that unemployment will continue to be a challenge due to the slower-than-required economic growth and the inability of the economy to absorb the 4-5 million new entrants into the Nigerian job market every year.
While 65 per cent of the poor live in the North, 35 per cent live in the South. Poverty levels across states vary significantly, with the incidence of multidimensional poverty ranging from a low of 27 per cent in Ondo to a high of 91 per cent in Sokoto. The education and health sectors are near skeletal, crippled by incessant strikes. The Academic Staff Union of University had gone on strike for over 610 days since the inception of this administration, the longest period of strike in the country’s democratic era. Similarly, strikes by doctors and other health workers in federal government-run hospitals in Nigeria resulted in the loss of more than 153 working days between 2015 and 2023.
As Tinubu receives the baton as Nigeria’s 16th head of state and government since 1960 and 5th elected president since 1999, the enormity of the job he is inheriting, we hope, is not lost on him. Although the burden of the election dispute will hover over his head pending the Supreme Court’s verdict, there will be little or no room for excuses. He will be expected to hit the ground running, considering the socio-economic situation on ground.
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