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  • Updated: November 25, 2022

How Africa Can Achieve Complete Industrialisation By 2030 — Buhari

How Africa Can Achieve Complete Industrialisation By 2030 �

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President Muhammadu Buhari has told African leaders how to achieve full Industrialisation by 2030.

Buhari who spoke on Friday in Niamey, the Niger Republic, at the AU Summit on Industrialisation and Economic Diversification in Africa said the educational system and academic curriculum must lean more towards Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) for this to happen.

According to him, STEM is the ”short way to produce the next generation of managers of an industrialized Africa not dependent on expatriates.”

The President urged leaders on the continent to solve the problem of generating cheap and clean energy, saying ”it is no secret that we cannot industrialise the continent if we do not solve the problem of generating cheap and clean energy.”

”Your Excellencies, energy generation and distribution is an enabler for industrialisation. Africa is richly endowed with multiple sources of energy generation. We are richly endowed with Hydro-Carbons, Coal, Natural Gas, Solar Energy, and Hydro- Energy.

”Yet we are lacking in the capacity to produce clean and cheap electricity to power our production and manufacturing sectors.

He expressed hope that the Summit will open ways to explore the possibilities of collaboration in pooling resources on a continental level to address the vexing problem of energy generation and distribution.

”Your Excellencies, the African Continent is blessed with a large Youth population that can address our labour shortages.

"Therefore, we should tap this human resource potential that abounds in the continent by providing our youths with qualitative and fit-for-purpose education that recognises the labour market demands.”

Buhari also told the AU summit that the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement would give impetus to the continent’s quest for an industrial revolution.

He expressed the belief that the outcome of the summit would launch the African continent on the path to poverty eradication, food security, and technological advancement, issues not far from the goals set out in the AU Agenda 2063 and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

According to President Buhari, through his media aide, Malm Garba Shehu, Nigeria has continued to diversify its economy, shifting from the traditional oil-based economy to a multi-sectoral economy.

He said the country is investing heavily in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises supporting small businesses and start-ups in innovation and Hi-Tech as well as IT.

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