Presidency Lists Buhari’s Milestone Achievements

• On the list were the Petroleum Industry Bill signed into law in 2021, after almost two decades in the works, and the “first National Social Investment Programme in the country’s history…

The Presidency has released a list of what it describes as jinxes broken and milestone achievements by President Muhammadu Buhari since he assumed office six years ago.

Special Adviser, Media, and Publicity, to the President, Femi Adesina, in an article on Sunday, reeled out the milestones achieved by his principal.

He listed the completion of the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Niger Delta Development Commission complexes, which his administration completed in 2018 and 2021, respectively among the milestones.

Adesina added that the Zik mausoleum started in 1996, was completed, and inaugurated in 2018 by Buhari’s regime as another feat.

Adesina also noted that under Buhari, the NNPC announced a “first-ever profit” of ₦287 billion.

He said, “A giant-sized jinx was broken recently when the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) announced a first net profit in the 44-year history of the organisation.”

He, however, emphasised that this is not the only major jinx broken in the lifetime of the Buhari administration.

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The media aide went on to reel out a list, which he says, is by no means exhaustive.

On the list were the Petroleum Industry Bill signed into law in 2021, after almost two decades in the works, and the “first National Social Investment Programme in the country’s history”. “Today it is the largest Social Investment Programme in Africa and one of the largest in the world,” Adesina said.

Others are; restoration of the federal budget to a January-to-December cycle, enabling the NCDC Act and the Nigeria Police Act, 2020.

He also mentioned the Nigeria Correctional Service Act, 2019, Finance Acts, 2019, and 2020.

In addition, Adesina listed the Piracy and Other Maritime Offences Bill (SPOMO), 2019.

The media aide noted that the Discrimination Against Persons With Disabilities (Prohibition) Act, 2018 was “another unprecedented piece of legislation in Nigeria” along with the Treasury Single Account (TSA), which started in 2012.

He added the completion of projects like the Maritime University, Delta, dams (in Taraba, Delta, Enugu, Katsina, Kaduna, Imo, Benue, etc.), inherited from the previous government to the list of the “jinxes” broken.

Furthermore, he named Gashua Water Supply Scheme in Yobe; Kwami Gadam and Bojude Water Supply Project in Gombe; the Saki Town Water Supply Project; and the Zobe and Kazaure Water Supply Projects in Katsina and Jigawa, respectively as part of the president’s masterstrokes.

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