Nigerians living in Nigeria are not as scared of the environment as foreigners and Nigerians living outside its shores. Insecurity remains one of our major constraints on economic growth and development, just as corruption is. The effects of insecurity on the economy with respect to locals can be seen in the low production in the agricultural sector, where farmers have been prevented from farming. This is in addition to its effects on social life and travel across the country.The insecurity has major implications when it comes to foreign direct investments from foreigners and Nigerians abroad. Although businessmen do weigh risks against profits when considering investment, both at the local and international levels. In Africa, foreign investors are part of the causes of insecurity, particularly when it comes to the extraction of minerals. In Nigeria, for instance, despite insecurity in the Niger Delta during the time of militants’ disruptive activities in the Niger Delta, multinational oil companies continued to invest in the area. There is no doubt that the MNCs are the root causes of insecurity in large parts of the North. They are indirectly and deeply involved in the illegal mining that is rampant in the solid-mineral-laden parts of northern Nigeria.The insecure activities in the south are largely for personal economic survival and less of tribal dominance, as often insinuated. Insecurity has caused restrictions in movements for social and economic activities, with attendant low productivity. Unfortunately, Nigerians who have families abroad often exaggerate the situation that affects, negatively, the investment decisions of Nigerians abroad. Albeit remittances into Nigeria continue to rise from money sent in for portfolio investments in the capital market and to individual families for consumption.The portfolio investments have made the Nigerian stock market quite active, profitable, and globally significant and relevant. There is a need for the Nigerian government to initiate policies that should further promote depth and contributions of the capital market for growth and development of the industrial sector, primarily, and the economy generally. This advice becomes more plausible if it is hinged on a national development plan, which the country does not explicitly showcase. A national development plan should be long-term and all-inclusive. That is, developed by the government with the involvement of the people so that they own it and executed with the people so that they feel belonged.At the international level, we have the global socio-economic plan as Sustainable Development Goals, an outcome of contributions from researchers in the developed, emerging, and developing countries. And, continentally, we have Agenda 2063 adopted by the African Union after being presented by the African Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa because of contributions by African researchers. These documents are instructive to each country, particularly developing economies, to have such economic plans for guided development.Many African countries have, following global and continental practice, developed country-specific economic development plans as instruments of development with appropriate policies that are reviewed periodically. Many governments could not develop such plans because of a lack of capacity to do so. That is why I often suggest that those countries should seek assistance from others through the respective continental body. Other countries fail to develop plans because the government does not want its hands tied to a protocol that can be used to gauge its success and/or failure.Related NewsNaira weakens 0.85% to close at N1,381.70/$FG borrows N5tn from bond market in six monthsUniversal Insurance urges stronger oil-insurance synergyIn Nigeria, we can say that we have a planless economy, though there were medium-term plans like the National Development Plan 2021-2025 and an upcoming draft framework tagged the Medium-Term National Development Plan 2026-2030, which is said to align with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. They did not go through the whole log of planning processes, as explained below.The NDP was designed as a follow-up to the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan that lasted till 2020. The NDP blueprint focused on economic diversification, infrastructural development, poverty alleviation, and inclusive growth. How many of the programmes were achieved remains to be seen, but certainly, not all can be achieved in a short span of four to five years.The MTND is recorded as a focus on Nigeria’s children’s development and transition of Nigeria into an upper-middle-income country within the goal of achieving a $1tn economy by 2030. There is, however, a Nigerian Agenda 2050 as the long-term or overarching national development plan. It is supposed to ensure holistic, sustainable socio-economic transformation. The question is: how many Nigerians are aware of these plans or involved in creating or developing them? The euphemism or code word “Plan-with-the-People” has been in the market since the 1990s, and it implies that people should be involved in the preparation and execution of national development plans.Of course, it is impossible to gather all the people in plan formulation. In that case, the plans are formulated by representatives: the educated, who include non-governmental agencies like professional bodies, labour employers, and labour unions, etc., and finally voted on by representatives of the people in the Senate and House of Representatives, as in the case of Nigeria’s two legislative chambers. At the international or global level, to carry people along in the plan’s execution, the United Nations creates slogans such as “UN Decade of Action on Nutrition”, “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”, “Decade for Afforestation and Reforestation”, and so on. Such declarations create awareness of a programme globally and for global execution.Nigeria needs to learn from the continent and global best practices in creating awareness in development plans, programmes, and project execution. In this context, we have an economic development plan drawn by experts, discussed initially by children, workers, employers, and other stakeholders, and finally discussed or debated by the National Assembly and executed through yearly sloganeering, where everyone is involved, as that makes the execution inclusive. The outcome of this process will bring tremendous development, which is measurable, to the nation. The insecurity has major implications when it comes to foreign direct investments from foreigners and Nigerians abroad. Although businessmen do weigh risks against profits when considering investment, both at the local and international levels. In Africa, foreign investors are part of the causes of insecurity, particularly when it comes to the extraction of minerals. In Nigeria, for instance, despite insecurity in the Niger Delta during the time of militants’ disruptive activities in the Niger Delta, multinational oil companies continued to invest in the area. There is no doubt that the MNCs are the root causes of insecurity in large parts of the North. They are indirectly and deeply involved in the illegal mining that is rampant in the solid-mineral-laden parts of northern Nigeria.The insecure activities in the south are largely for personal economic survival and less of tribal dominance, as often insinuated. Insecurity has caused restrictions in movements for social and economic activities, with attendant low productivity. Unfortunately, Nigerians who have families abroad often exaggerate the situation that affects, negatively, the investment decisions of Nigerians abroad. Albeit remittances into Nigeria continue to rise from money sent in for portfolio investments in the capital market and to individual families for consumption.The portfolio investments have made the Nigerian stock market quite active, profitable, and globally significant and relevant. There is a need for the Nigerian government to initiate policies that should further promote depth and contributions of the capital market for growth and development of the industrial sector, primarily, and the economy generally. This advice becomes more plausible if it is hinged on a national development plan, which the country does not explicitly showcase. A national development plan should be long-term and all-inclusive. That is, developed by the government with the involvement of the people so that they own it and executed with the people so that they feel belonged.At the international level, we have the global socio-economic plan as Sustainable Development Goals, an outcome of contributions from researchers in the developed, emerging, and developing countries. And, continentally, we have Agenda 2063 adopted by the African Union after being presented by the African Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa because of contributions by African researchers. These documents are instructive to each country, particularly developing economies, to have such economic plans for guided development.Many African countries have, following global and continental practice, developed country-specific economic development plans as instruments of development with appropriate policies that are reviewed periodically. Many governments could not develop such plans because of a lack of capacity to do so. That is why I often suggest that those countries should seek assistance from others through the respective continental body. Other countries fail to develop plans because the government does not want its hands tied to a protocol that can be used to gauge its success and/or failure.Related NewsNaira weakens 0.85% to close at N1,381.70/$FG borrows N5tn from bond market in six monthsUniversal Insurance urges stronger oil-insurance synergyIn Nigeria, we can say that we have a planless economy, though there were medium-term plans like the National Development Plan 2021-2025 and an upcoming draft framework tagged the Medium-Term National Development Plan 2026-2030, which is said to align with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. They did not go through the whole log of planning processes, as explained below.The NDP was designed as a follow-up to the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan that lasted till 2020. The NDP blueprint focused on economic diversification, infrastructural development, poverty alleviation, and inclusive growth. How many of the programmes were achieved remains to be seen, but certainly, not all can be achieved in a short span of four to five years.The MTND is recorded as a focus on Nigeria’s children’s development and transition of Nigeria into an upper-middle-income country within the goal of achieving a $1tn economy by 2030. There is, however, a Nigerian Agenda 2050 as the long-term or overarching national development plan. It is supposed to ensure holistic, sustainable socio-economic transformation. The question is: how many Nigerians are aware of these plans or involved in creating or developing them? The euphemism or code word “Plan-with-the-People” has been in the market since the 1990s, and it implies that people should be involved in the preparation and execution of national development plans.Of course, it is impossible to gather all the people in plan formulation. In that case, the plans are formulated by representatives: the educated, who include non-governmental agencies like professional bodies, labour employers, and labour unions, etc., and finally voted on by representatives of the people in the Senate and House of Representatives, as in the case of Nigeria’s two legislative chambers. At the international or global level, to carry people along in the plan’s execution, the United Nations creates slogans such as “UN Decade of Action on Nutrition”, “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”, “Decade for Afforestation and Reforestation”, and so on. Such declarations create awareness of a programme globally and for global execution.Nigeria needs to learn from the continent and global best practices in creating awareness in development plans, programmes, and project execution. In this context, we have an economic development plan drawn by experts, discussed initially by children, workers, employers, and other stakeholders, and finally discussed or debated by the National Assembly and executed through yearly sloganeering, where everyone is involved, as that makes the execution inclusive. The outcome of this process will bring tremendous development, which is measurable, to the nation. The insecure activities in the south are largely for personal economic survival and less of tribal dominance, as often insinuated. Insecurity has caused restrictions in movements for social and economic activities, with attendant low productivity. Unfortunately, Nigerians who have families abroad often exaggerate the situation that affects, negatively, the investment decisions of Nigerians abroad. Albeit remittances into Nigeria continue to rise from money sent in for portfolio investments in the capital market and to individual families for consumption.The portfolio investments have made the Nigerian stock market quite active, profitable, and globally significant and relevant. There is a need for the Nigerian government to initiate policies that should further promote depth and contributions of the capital market for growth and development of the industrial sector, primarily, and the economy generally. This advice becomes more plausible if it is hinged on a national development plan, which the country does not explicitly showcase. A national development plan should be long-term and all-inclusive. That is, developed by the government with the involvement of the people so that they own it and executed with the people so that they feel belonged.At the international level, we have the global socio-economic plan as Sustainable Development Goals, an outcome of contributions from researchers in the developed, emerging, and developing countries. And, continentally, we have Agenda 2063 adopted by the African Union after being presented by the African Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa because of contributions by African researchers. These documents are instructive to each country, particularly developing economies, to have such economic plans for guided development.Many African countries have, following global and continental practice, developed country-specific economic development plans as instruments of development with appropriate policies that are reviewed periodically. Many governments could not develop such plans because of a lack of capacity to do so. That is why I often suggest that those countries should seek assistance from others through the respective continental body. Other countries fail to develop plans because the government does not want its hands tied to a protocol that can be used to gauge its success and/or failure.Related NewsNaira weakens 0.85% to close at N1,381.70/$FG borrows N5tn from bond market in six monthsUniversal Insurance urges stronger oil-insurance synergyIn Nigeria, we can say that we have a planless economy, though there were medium-term plans like the National Development Plan 2021-2025 and an upcoming draft framework tagged the Medium-Term National Development Plan 2026-2030, which is said to align with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. They did not go through the whole log of planning processes, as explained below.The NDP was designed as a follow-up to the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan that lasted till 2020. The NDP blueprint focused on economic diversification, infrastructural development, poverty alleviation, and inclusive growth. How many of the programmes were achieved remains to be seen, but certainly, not all can be achieved in a short span of four to five years.The MTND is recorded as a focus on Nigeria’s children’s development and transition of Nigeria into an upper-middle-income country within the goal of achieving a $1tn economy by 2030. There is, however, a Nigerian Agenda 2050 as the long-term or overarching national development plan. It is supposed to ensure holistic, sustainable socio-economic transformation. The question is: how many Nigerians are aware of these plans or involved in creating or developing them? The euphemism or code word “Plan-with-the-People” has been in the market since the 1990s, and it implies that people should be involved in the preparation and execution of national development plans.Of course, it is impossible to gather all the people in plan formulation. In that case, the plans are formulated by representatives: the educated, who include non-governmental agencies like professional bodies, labour employers, and labour unions, etc., and finally voted on by representatives of the people in the Senate and House of Representatives, as in the case of Nigeria’s two legislative chambers. At the international or global level, to carry people along in the plan’s execution, the United Nations creates slogans such as “UN Decade of Action on Nutrition”, “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”, “Decade for Afforestation and Reforestation”, and so on. Such declarations create awareness of a programme globally and for global execution.Nigeria needs to learn from the continent and global best practices in creating awareness in development plans, programmes, and project execution. In this context, we have an economic development plan drawn by experts, discussed initially by children, workers, employers, and other stakeholders, and finally discussed or debated by the National Assembly and executed through yearly sloganeering, where everyone is involved, as that makes the execution inclusive. The outcome of this process will bring tremendous development, which is measurable, to the nation. The portfolio investments have made the Nigerian stock market quite active, profitable, and globally significant and relevant. There is a need for the Nigerian government to initiate policies that should further promote depth and contributions of the capital market for growth and development of the industrial sector, primarily, and the economy generally. This advice becomes more plausible if it is hinged on a national development plan, which the country does not explicitly showcase. A national development plan should be long-term and all-inclusive. That is, developed by the government with the involvement of the people so that they own it and executed with the people so that they feel belonged.At the international level, we have the global socio-economic plan as Sustainable Development Goals, an outcome of contributions from researchers in the developed, emerging, and developing countries. And, continentally, we have Agenda 2063 adopted by the African Union after being presented by the African Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa because of contributions by African researchers. These documents are instructive to each country, particularly developing economies, to have such economic plans for guided development.Many African countries have, following global and continental practice, developed country-specific economic development plans as instruments of development with appropriate policies that are reviewed periodically. Many governments could not develop such plans because of a lack of capacity to do so. That is why I often suggest that those countries should seek assistance from others through the respective continental body. Other countries fail to develop plans because the government does not want its hands tied to a protocol that can be used to gauge its success and/or failure.Related NewsNaira weakens 0.85% to close at N1,381.70/$FG borrows N5tn from bond market in six monthsUniversal Insurance urges stronger oil-insurance synergyIn Nigeria, we can say that we have a planless economy, though there were medium-term plans like the National Development Plan 2021-2025 and an upcoming draft framework tagged the Medium-Term National Development Plan 2026-2030, which is said to align with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. They did not go through the whole log of planning processes, as explained below.The NDP was designed as a follow-up to the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan that lasted till 2020. The NDP blueprint focused on economic diversification, infrastructural development, poverty alleviation, and inclusive growth. How many of the programmes were achieved remains to be seen, but certainly, not all can be achieved in a short span of four to five years.The MTND is recorded as a focus on Nigeria’s children’s development and transition of Nigeria into an upper-middle-income country within the goal of achieving a $1tn economy by 2030. There is, however, a Nigerian Agenda 2050 as the long-term or overarching national development plan. It is supposed to ensure holistic, sustainable socio-economic transformation. The question is: how many Nigerians are aware of these plans or involved in creating or developing them? The euphemism or code word “Plan-with-the-People” has been in the market since the 1990s, and it implies that people should be involved in the preparation and execution of national development plans.Of course, it is impossible to gather all the people in plan formulation. In that case, the plans are formulated by representatives: the educated, who include non-governmental agencies like professional bodies, labour employers, and labour unions, etc., and finally voted on by representatives of the people in the Senate and House of Representatives, as in the case of Nigeria’s two legislative chambers. At the international or global level, to carry people along in the plan’s execution, the United Nations creates slogans such as “UN Decade of Action on Nutrition”, “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”, “Decade for Afforestation and Reforestation”, and so on. Such declarations create awareness of a programme globally and for global execution.Nigeria needs to learn from the continent and global best practices in creating awareness in development plans, programmes, and project execution. In this context, we have an economic development plan drawn by experts, discussed initially by children, workers, employers, and other stakeholders, and finally discussed or debated by the National Assembly and executed through yearly sloganeering, where everyone is involved, as that makes the execution inclusive. The outcome of this process will bring tremendous development, which is measurable, to the nation. At the international level, we have the global socio-economic plan as Sustainable Development Goals, an outcome of contributions from researchers in the developed, emerging, and developing countries. And, continentally, we have Agenda 2063 adopted by the African Union after being presented by the African Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa because of contributions by African researchers. These documents are instructive to each country, particularly developing economies, to have such economic plans for guided development.Many African countries have, following global and continental practice, developed country-specific economic development plans as instruments of development with appropriate policies that are reviewed periodically. Many governments could not develop such plans because of a lack of capacity to do so. That is why I often suggest that those countries should seek assistance from others through the respective continental body. Other countries fail to develop plans because the government does not want its hands tied to a protocol that can be used to gauge its success and/or failure.Related NewsNaira weakens 0.85% to close at N1,381.70/$FG borrows N5tn from bond market in six monthsUniversal Insurance urges stronger oil-insurance synergyIn Nigeria, we can say that we have a planless economy, though there were medium-term plans like the National Development Plan 2021-2025 and an upcoming draft framework tagged the Medium-Term National Development Plan 2026-2030, which is said to align with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. They did not go through the whole log of planning processes, as explained below.The NDP was designed as a follow-up to the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan that lasted till 2020. The NDP blueprint focused on economic diversification, infrastructural development, poverty alleviation, and inclusive growth. How many of the programmes were achieved remains to be seen, but certainly, not all can be achieved in a short span of four to five years.The MTND is recorded as a focus on Nigeria’s children’s development and transition of Nigeria into an upper-middle-income country within the goal of achieving a $1tn economy by 2030. There is, however, a Nigerian Agenda 2050 as the long-term or overarching national development plan. It is supposed to ensure holistic, sustainable socio-economic transformation. The question is: how many Nigerians are aware of these plans or involved in creating or developing them? The euphemism or code word “Plan-with-the-People” has been in the market since the 1990s, and it implies that people should be involved in the preparation and execution of national development plans.Of course, it is impossible to gather all the people in plan formulation. In that case, the plans are formulated by representatives: the educated, who include non-governmental agencies like professional bodies, labour employers, and labour unions, etc., and finally voted on by representatives of the people in the Senate and House of Representatives, as in the case of Nigeria’s two legislative chambers. At the international or global level, to carry people along in the plan’s execution, the United Nations creates slogans such as “UN Decade of Action on Nutrition”, “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”, “Decade for Afforestation and Reforestation”, and so on. Such declarations create awareness of a programme globally and for global execution.Nigeria needs to learn from the continent and global best practices in creating awareness in development plans, programmes, and project execution. In this context, we have an economic development plan drawn by experts, discussed initially by children, workers, employers, and other stakeholders, and finally discussed or debated by the National Assembly and executed through yearly sloganeering, where everyone is involved, as that makes the execution inclusive. The outcome of this process will bring tremendous development, which is measurable, to the nation. Many African countries have, following global and continental practice, developed country-specific economic development plans as instruments of development with appropriate policies that are reviewed periodically. Many governments could not develop such plans because of a lack of capacity to do so. That is why I often suggest that those countries should seek assistance from others through the respective continental body. Other countries fail to develop plans because the government does not want its hands tied to a protocol that can be used to gauge its success and/or failure.Related NewsNaira weakens 0.85% to close at N1,381.70/$FG borrows N5tn from bond market in six monthsUniversal Insurance urges stronger oil-insurance synergyIn Nigeria, we can say that we have a planless economy, though there were medium-term plans like the National Development Plan 2021-2025 and an upcoming draft framework tagged the Medium-Term National Development Plan 2026-2030, which is said to align with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. They did not go through the whole log of planning processes, as explained below.The NDP was designed as a follow-up to the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan that lasted till 2020. The NDP blueprint focused on economic diversification, infrastructural development, poverty alleviation, and inclusive growth. How many of the programmes were achieved remains to be seen, but certainly, not all can be achieved in a short span of four to five years.The MTND is recorded as a focus on Nigeria’s children’s development and transition of Nigeria into an upper-middle-income country within the goal of achieving a $1tn economy by 2030. There is, however, a Nigerian Agenda 2050 as the long-term or overarching national development plan. It is supposed to ensure holistic, sustainable socio-economic transformation. The question is: how many Nigerians are aware of these plans or involved in creating or developing them? The euphemism or code word “Plan-with-the-People” has been in the market since the 1990s, and it implies that people should be involved in the preparation and execution of national development plans.Of course, it is impossible to gather all the people in plan formulation. In that case, the plans are formulated by representatives: the educated, who include non-governmental agencies like professional bodies, labour employers, and labour unions, etc., and finally voted on by representatives of the people in the Senate and House of Representatives, as in the case of Nigeria’s two legislative chambers. At the international or global level, to carry people along in the plan’s execution, the United Nations creates slogans such as “UN Decade of Action on Nutrition”, “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”, “Decade for Afforestation and Reforestation”, and so on. Such declarations create awareness of a programme globally and for global execution.Nigeria needs to learn from the continent and global best practices in creating awareness in development plans, programmes, and project execution. In this context, we have an economic development plan drawn by experts, discussed initially by children, workers, employers, and other stakeholders, and finally discussed or debated by the National Assembly and executed through yearly sloganeering, where everyone is involved, as that makes the execution inclusive. The outcome of this process will bring tremendous development, which is measurable, to the nation. In Nigeria, we can say that we have a planless economy, though there were medium-term plans like the National Development Plan 2021-2025 and an upcoming draft framework tagged the Medium-Term National Development Plan 2026-2030, which is said to align with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. They did not go through the whole log of planning processes, as explained below.The NDP was designed as a follow-up to the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan that lasted till 2020. The NDP blueprint focused on economic diversification, infrastructural development, poverty alleviation, and inclusive growth. How many of the programmes were achieved remains to be seen, but certainly, not all can be achieved in a short span of four to five years.The MTND is recorded as a focus on Nigeria’s children’s development and transition of Nigeria into an upper-middle-income country within the goal of achieving a $1tn economy by 2030. There is, however, a Nigerian Agenda 2050 as the long-term or overarching national development plan. It is supposed to ensure holistic, sustainable socio-economic transformation. The question is: how many Nigerians are aware of these plans or involved in creating or developing them? The euphemism or code word “Plan-with-the-People” has been in the market since the 1990s, and it implies that people should be involved in the preparation and execution of national development plans.Of course, it is impossible to gather all the people in plan formulation. In that case, the plans are formulated by representatives: the educated, who include non-governmental agencies like professional bodies, labour employers, and labour unions, etc., and finally voted on by representatives of the people in the Senate and House of Representatives, as in the case of Nigeria’s two legislative chambers. At the international or global level, to carry people along in the plan’s execution, the United Nations creates slogans such as “UN Decade of Action on Nutrition”, “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”, “Decade for Afforestation and Reforestation”, and so on. Such declarations create awareness of a programme globally and for global execution.Nigeria needs to learn from the continent and global best practices in creating awareness in development plans, programmes, and project execution. In this context, we have an economic development plan drawn by experts, discussed initially by children, workers, employers, and other stakeholders, and finally discussed or debated by the National Assembly and executed through yearly sloganeering, where everyone is involved, as that makes the execution inclusive. The outcome of this process will bring tremendous development, which is measurable, to the nation. The NDP was designed as a follow-up to the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan that lasted till 2020. The NDP blueprint focused on economic diversification, infrastructural development, poverty alleviation, and inclusive growth. How many of the programmes were achieved remains to be seen, but certainly, not all can be achieved in a short span of four to five years.The MTND is recorded as a focus on Nigeria’s children’s development and transition of Nigeria into an upper-middle-income country within the goal of achieving a $1tn economy by 2030. There is, however, a Nigerian Agenda 2050 as the long-term or overarching national development plan. It is supposed to ensure holistic, sustainable socio-economic transformation. The question is: how many Nigerians are aware of these plans or involved in creating or developing them? The euphemism or code word “Plan-with-the-People” has been in the market since the 1990s, and it implies that people should be involved in the preparation and execution of national development plans.Of course, it is impossible to gather all the people in plan formulation. In that case, the plans are formulated by representatives: the educated, who include non-governmental agencies like professional bodies, labour employers, and labour unions, etc., and finally voted on by representatives of the people in the Senate and House of Representatives, as in the case of Nigeria’s two legislative chambers. At the international or global level, to carry people along in the plan’s execution, the United Nations creates slogans such as “UN Decade of Action on Nutrition”, “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”, “Decade for Afforestation and Reforestation”, and so on. Such declarations create awareness of a programme globally and for global execution.Nigeria needs to learn from the continent and global best practices in creating awareness in development plans, programmes, and project execution. In this context, we have an economic development plan drawn by experts, discussed initially by children, workers, employers, and other stakeholders, and finally discussed or debated by the National Assembly and executed through yearly sloganeering, where everyone is involved, as that makes the execution inclusive. The outcome of this process will bring tremendous development, which is measurable, to the nation. The MTND is recorded as a focus on Nigeria’s children’s development and transition of Nigeria into an upper-middle-income country within the goal of achieving a $1tn economy by 2030. There is, however, a Nigerian Agenda 2050 as the long-term or overarching national development plan. It is supposed to ensure holistic, sustainable socio-economic transformation. The question is: how many Nigerians are aware of these plans or involved in creating or developing them? The euphemism or code word “Plan-with-the-People” has been in the market since the 1990s, and it implies that people should be involved in the preparation and execution of national development plans.Of course, it is impossible to gather all the people in plan formulation. In that case, the plans are formulated by representatives: the educated, who include non-governmental agencies like professional bodies, labour employers, and labour unions, etc., and finally voted on by representatives of the people in the Senate and House of Representatives, as in the case of Nigeria’s two legislative chambers. At the international or global level, to carry people along in the plan’s execution, the United Nations creates slogans such as “UN Decade of Action on Nutrition”, “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”, “Decade for Afforestation and Reforestation”, and so on. Such declarations create awareness of a programme globally and for global execution.Nigeria needs to learn from the continent and global best practices in creating awareness in development plans, programmes, and project execution. In this context, we have an economic development plan drawn by experts, discussed initially by children, workers, employers, and other stakeholders, and finally discussed or debated by the National Assembly and executed through yearly sloganeering, where everyone is involved, as that makes the execution inclusive. The outcome of this process will bring tremendous development, which is measurable, to the nation. Of course, it is impossible to gather all the people in plan formulation. In that case, the plans are formulated by representatives: the educated, who include non-governmental agencies like professional bodies, labour employers, and labour unions, etc., and finally voted on by representatives of the people in the Senate and House of Representatives, as in the case of Nigeria’s two legislative chambers. At the international or global level, to carry people along in the plan’s execution, the United Nations creates slogans such as “UN Decade of Action on Nutrition”, “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”, “Decade for Afforestation and Reforestation”, and so on. Such declarations create awareness of a programme globally and for global execution.Nigeria needs to learn from the continent and global best practices in creating awareness in development plans, programmes, and project execution. In this context, we have an economic development plan drawn by experts, discussed initially by children, workers, employers, and other stakeholders, and finally discussed or debated by the National Assembly and executed through yearly sloganeering, where everyone is involved, as that makes the execution inclusive. The outcome of this process will bring tremendous development, which is measurable, to the nation. Nigeria needs to learn from the continent and global best practices in creating awareness in development plans, programmes, and project execution. In this context, we have an economic development plan drawn by experts, discussed initially by children, workers, employers, and other stakeholders, and finally discussed or debated by the National Assembly and executed through yearly sloganeering, where everyone is involved, as that makes the execution inclusive. The outcome of this process will bring tremendous development, which is measurable, to the nation.