The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Policy Development and Analysis in the office of the Secretary to the Federal Government, Hon. Ibrahim Bapetel has announced that the second edition of the National Policy Summit will hold on Thursday 5th March 2020.
The 2020 NPOD Summit with the theme Actualizing the Change Agenda: Prospects and anticipated Challenges seeks to deliberate on the targets and implications of President Muhammadu Buhari’s thematic focal point of governance tagged The Next Level Agenda.
The 2nd National Policy Development Summit will assist in proffering solutions that will enable Government to deliver the Next Level agenda through impactful policies; especially President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive to life 100 million Nigerians out of poverty within the next ten years.
In a Press Released signed by the Summit’s spokesman Alkasim Abdulkadir, Hon Bapetel said “The summit will continue in the tradition that interrogates strategies and prospects of our development as a nation, in the context of the Change Agenda. At this Summit we will rely on the strength of your ideas to identify the challenges that may likely affect the actualization of the Next Level Agenda; and also generate inputs that will assist Government to stay focused in the next four years”.
The Summit which is themed “Actualizing The Next Level Agenda”, will witness the presence of his Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, the participation and attendance of key stakeholders and institutions in identifying failure factors that may likely impede the actualization of the Next Level Agenda and tackle them appropriately to ensure fruition and efficient impacts. The occasion is expected to record critical deliberations and discourses on the strategies, prospects, and challenges encountered in achieving success in the afore-envisioned Next Level Agenda.
The N-POD Summit will focus on interrogating strategies and prospects thereby facilitating interactions among stakeholders, with a view to generate new ideas that will help strengthen Government’s polices. Discusses and deliberations at the NPOD Summit will highlight the issues surrounding socioeconomic development, infrastructural advancements, challenges of funding and lending to the real sector of the economy, as well as the absorptive capacity of the economy.
Some of the distinguished Speakers are the Hon. Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir S. Magashi, the Hon. Minister of Transport, Rt. Honourable Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and The Executive Chairman of FIRS, Alh. Abdullahi Jami. The notable and professional authorities participating in the discussion may also include Group Captain Sadeeq Shehu Rtd, an Adjunct Professor at the National Defense College, Abuja, Professor Olajide Oladipo, Professor of Economics, National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, Prof. Nazifi Abdullahi Dama, Professor of Economics University of Abuja and Dr. Mrs. Harriet Nkechi Akubuiro, President of the Chattered Institute of Loan and Risk Management of Nigeria and Mr Ekerete Gam-Ikon an Insurance expert.
