Anglican Primate sets 2025 agenda for FG, predicts slow, steady economic recovery
02 January 2025 |
2:38 am
Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Archbishop Henry Ndukuba, has urged the Federal Government to prioritise security, social welfare, education, health, agriculture and other sectors that will touch the lives of Nigerians directly in 2025.
Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Archbishop Henry Ndukuba, has urged the Federal Government to prioritise security, social welfare, education, health, agriculture and other sectors that will touch the lives of Nigerians directly in 2025.
Predicting that this year will be better than 2024, he said the country will record positive changes in some sectors this year. Speaking, yesterday, at the New Year service and the feast of the naming of Jesus at the Cathedral Church of Advent Life Camp, Gwarimpa, Abuja, Ndukubaemphasised that the economic policies of government must turn Nigeria towards industrialisation and urged the government to channel its palliatives to agro-industries to provide employment opportunities for Nigerians.
He said, “Industrialisation will engage our people whether in agriculture or agro-industries or whatever because of the ripple effect and the chain impact it will have both for the farmer, industrialists, businessmen and women. That is what will put food on the tables of our people. Palliatives are good but channel the palliatives to agro-industries and our people will be engaged. Our people are not lazy.”
The archbishop said the country’s economy would witness a slow but steady recovery in 2025 but lamented endemic corruption in the country. He stated, “Nigeria will see better and greater days, and 2025 will bring in some advances, changes and increased positive change in some sectors. We trust God to bring us individually as families, as a people and as a nation into our higher ground, and we will walk in the glory that God has given us. Yes, things will change if we are ready to obey God and work to have a moral value that will be so transforming.
“The Lord is telling us as Nigerians that He is ever ready to roll away our reproaches, so long as we are ready to allow God to circumcise us, to deal with our iniquities.”
The Primate noted Nigeria as a project in progress in God’s hand, adding that God would take the country to the next level, to take its place in the comity of nations and be the envy of the nations.
According to him, 2025 can be another year in which our politicians may attempt to do something for the citizens because 2026 will be a strategic time in the political arena, as there will be much political realignment for 2027.
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