We argued then that nigeria vision 20 2020 agenda is an attempt by the nigerian ruling class to hoodwink and deceive the people into believing that the state is. Under president jonathan the transformation agenda was the focus. After about nine months of intensive work by over 1,000 experts, the presidency yesterday unfolded the draft vision 20. African centre for leadership, strategy and development centre lsd. The part 1 of the document presents the strategic framework for the plan, which is premised on nigeria s vision of becoming the 20th economy in the world by the year 2020.
Vision 2020s policy platform reflects educators from across the state and is representative of opinions from the southern tip of illinois through the northern chicago suburbs. Attainment of the vision would enable the country to achieve a high standard of living for its citizens. Out of the total population, about 39 percent are children aged below 15 years while adults constitute the remaining 61 per cent. Nigeria s quest to join the league of 20 industrialised nations by the year 2020 got a boost yesterday as the federal government unveiled a blueprint to attain this objective. The vision consists of a set of objectives and programmes designed to launch the nation into the league of the 20 most developed economies of the world by the year 2020. The plan has, among its aims, the desire to place the country. With president buhari, it is the economic recovery and growth plan ergp and the focus seems to be squarely on the ergp as opposed to the vision 20. Governance and general administration and regionalgeopolitical zones development.
The latter is the vision that expects nigeria to be one of the 20 largest economies in the world, able to consolidate its leadership role in africa and establish itself as a significant player in the global economic and political arena. Nigerias quest to join the league of 20 industrialised nations by the year 2020 got a boost on friday, september 25, 2009 as the federal government unveiled a blueprint to attain this objective. Nigeria has had two different administrations since the adoption of vision 20. Addressing nigerian development and the structure of the economy through education article pdf available december 2015 with 6,824 reads. Vision 2020 links programme london school of hygiene. Trade promotion as a means of achieving nigerias vision. It is a long term plan meant to stimulate nigerias economic growth and launch the country into a path of sustained and rapid socialeconomic development. A recent effort initiated by the government in realizing national developmental goal in nigeria is the vision20. And paving the way for the emergence of the n11 countries after the brics, there is the next 11 or n11 countries, which have the potential to be bric likein the future as identified by goldman sachs one of which is nigeria. This paper analyses the nexus between global competitiveness and the attainment of the vision 20. In 2004, he dreamt that nigeria will emerge one of the 20 largest economies of the world in 2025. One of the main objectives of vision 2020 is to place nigeria in the top 20 leading economies.
Approved by the federal executive council 14 oct 2009 endorsed by the national council of state 08 june 2010 launched by mr. Abridged version national bureau of statistics, nigeria. Pdf the nigerian government has put several economic tools into place to improve on the economic productivity of the nation. The quest by nigerians to join the league of 20 industrialized nations by the year 2020 may be a mirage if phobia for mathematics learning in secondary schools is not taking into cognizance. Pdf climate change and nigerias sustainable development.
Abstract nigeria has long recognised and acknowledged the importance of ict to spur national development. Then president umaru yaradua was interested in a document that could be the development roadmap for nigeria. Nigeria experience in development planning has been a failure. The vision was introduced in 2007 at the tail end of the obasanjo regime.
Looking forward, it is incontrovertible that these challenges must be conquered for the sector to be ranked amongst the top 20 by year 2020. National development plan of nigeria commonwealth governance. Climate change and nigeriaazs sustainable development of. Insecurity and national economic development implications for. Aug 10, 2012 ambition to place nigeria among the worlds 20 biggest and strongest economies by 2020 is fast becoming a mirage as epileptic electricity supply is gradually constituting the greatest challenge facing the country towards realising the vision. Thus, nigeria has had vision 2000, vision 2010 and now the latest, vision 20.
Considering nigeria s previous experience with national plans it is valuable to study weather vison 20. In this regard, more support ought to be given to the manufacturing sector where most growth is expected to come from. Abdulgafar department of primary education studies, federal college of education, technical, p. Financial system strategy 2020 central bank of nigeria. Abdulhamid 2008 traced the history of the dream to a research conducted by economists at an american investment bank, a fallout of which was a prediction that nigeria would be in the league of 20 top economies by year 2025. Although the city of chicago operates under a separate school code, they face many similar challenges. The framework also offers a blueprint for sustainable political development in nigeria. Stewart abstract nigeria s current development vision is to become one of the fastest developing economies in the world by the year 2020. It was developed by nigerians for the nigerian people and involved a process of thorough engagement with all. Improving critical infrastructure for sustainable development in nigeria towards the realization of vision 20. Osakinle 1adekunle ajasin university, 2university of ado ekiti, nigeria abstract the total number of approved universities in.
The part 1 of the document presents the strategic framework for the plan, which is premised on nigerias vision of becoming the. Sustainable rural infrastructural development in nigeria. Social sciences department federal polytechnic nekede, owerri, imo state, nigeria email. Climate change and nigeria s sustainable development of vision 20 2020. Beginning date 2010 title variation first national implementation plan for nv20. May 28, 2010 as nigeria celebrates 11 years of uninterrupted democracy and with 10 years to 2020, some stakeholders have expressed fears that the country is yet to attain the core targets in capsulated in the vision 20. Is abachas ghost still hounding nigeria to see to the end of the country, come the year 2020. The drafters of the vision had believed that by 2020 nigeria will be one of the 20 largest economies in the world able to.
The purpose of this study is to examine the human resources development of nigeria as the road map for vision 20. Despite the security challenges across the country, nigeria is meeting its target of being among the 20 largest economies in the world by the year 2020, also called vision 20. Evidence from national accounts 163 one of the vision objectives is to make the nigerian economy less oildependent and strengthen domestic industry. Please click the donate button if you would like to contribute to supporting the vision 2020 links programme. It is just eleven years to the end of the time frame for realizing the.
The critical infrastructure, human capital development. The vision captures among other things, the road map and blueprint to achieving national economic growth and becoming one of the twenty largest economies in the world by 2020 itua, 2011, or more specifically. Among, and perhaps the most recent of these development plans is the nigerias vision 20. Unemployed graduates mental health and the place of. The blueprint articulates nigerias economic growth and. Technical and financial support from the private sector and development partners. Role of nigerian politicians and political communicators in the implementation of vision 20. Download a detailed introduction to the programme pdf 65kb contact us. The federal government said the vision 2020 was still being articulated to give it all the necessary impetus for implementation in preparation for. Nigeria is growing but the rate of growth is lower than it is expected to attain a targeted per capita income in the year 2020. Nigerian economy had undergone series of developmental programmes right from independence till date. Q e main goal of the plan is to bring nigeria to the top 20 biggest economies in the world by 2020. They indicate among others the current situation, challenges to be addressed, the objectives to be achieved, as well as, the strategies that will be employed to achieve the desired results.
To overcome the challenges highlighted above, the nigeria vision 20. The first national implementation plan 1st nip, for nigeria vision 20. Vision 2020 is expected to place nigeria in the comity of one of the developed 20 economies in the world by the year 2020. Nigeria vision 2020 program code of conduct and corporate governance for the operators and regulators all significantly hinder nigerias financial sector. Vision 2020 is the objective of the nigerian government to grow the size of nigeria s economy from a position of 40th in 2005 to the 20th nation in the world by the year 2020. It is difficult for the unemployed and farmers in many. The pronouncement by the minister of national planning commission npc, dr. Economic transformation policy for nigeria popularly known as the vision 20. Unemployed graduates mental health and the place of entrepreneurship education in achieving nigeria s vision 20. Adenipekun department of estate management, school of environmental studies, lagos state, polytechnic, ikorodulagos, nigeria abstract the state of rural development growth in nigeria has overtime impacted profoundly on all sectors of the national economy. Pdf nigeria vision 2020 economic transformation plan. The first volume volume i contains three main parts. Is that the year that abacha vision 20 20 terminates of begins. Nigeria s vision 2020 s intent is to position nigeria to become one of the top 20 economies in the world by 2020 linking the objectives of the needs program 20042007, the needs 2 program, and the sevenpoint agenda, key objectives of the vision 2020 are to.
Role of nigerian politicians and political communicators. We argued then that nigeria vision 20 2020 agenda is an attempt by the nigerian ruling class to. Foreign direct investment and the nigerian economy. Nigeria s commitment to improving the living standard of its citizens has led to the introduction of a longterm economic programme tagged vision 20. Attainment of the vision would enable the country achieve a high standard of living for its citizens. We argued then that nigeria vision 20 2020 agenda is an attempt by the nigerian ruling class to hoodwink and deceive the. A distinctive value for the attainment of vision 20.
It is the biggest economy in the west african sub region. Work in progress as at 261009 not for circulation list of tables table 21 human development index. These social menace trigger off a worrisome sense of insecurity that challenge nigerias efforts towards national economic development and consequently its vision 20. After about nine months of intensive work by over 1,000 experts, the. The industrial sector accounts for 6 per cent of economic activity, while in 2011, the manufacturing sector contributed only 4 per cent to gdp. One of the main objectives of vision 2020 is to place nigeria in the top 20 leading economies of. Providing information and seeking suggestions on nv 20.
It is expected that mobile phones will be the primary channel for access. Initially, business education in nigeria had the problems of visibility and awareness, but. This paper argues that infrastructural development is critical to achievement of the vision. The nigeria vision 2020 is a bottomup strategic plan in which each major stakeholder group will prepare its v2020 thoughts and ideas based on the guidelines approved by the national council. This has become worrisome in the face of nigerias preparedness to be ranked among the twenty 20 developed countries of the world by the year 2020. Though, they observed that modest steps have been taken to achieve some of the targets. See various studies and projections by goldman sachs nigeria to be the 12th largest economy by 2050 ahead of italy, canada, korea, etc see my paper on nigeria as china of africa economy has capacity to sustain over 10% in the medium term and achieve. Awili school of engineering, delta state polytechnic, ogwashiuku. M chiadika school of engineering, delta state polytechnic, kuogwashiu. Business environment and competitiveness in nigeria considerations for nigerias vision 2020 uwem essia department of economics, university of calabar, calabar, nigeria email. Business environment and competitiveness in nigeria. The economic transformation agenda, otherwise known as nigeria vision 20. Our study hence concentrates on the two objectives.
This vision is the result of input from over 3,000 key. Shamsuddeen usman, that the realisation of the vision 20. Report of the vision 2020 national technical working group. Vision 2020 is aligned with the goals of the national development plan ndp. Vision 2020 executive summary 111414 illinois vision 2020. This abridged version summarizes, in five sections, the focus, objectives, strategies. Socioeconomic impact of graduate unemployment on nigeria. Nigeria s quest to join the league of 20 industrialised nations by the year 2020 got a boost on friday, september 25, 2009 as the federal government unveiled a blueprint to attain this objective. These committees are expected to provide information that will feed into the nv2020 plan. Ibrahim department of primary education studies, federal college of education. Building craftsmanship skill development and nigerias. Vision 2020 is the objective of the nigerian government to grow the size of nigerias economy from a position of 40th in 2005 to the 20th nation in the world by the year 2020. Asemah kogi state university, nigeria abstract nigeria s economic potential is well recognised.
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