*President Bola Ahmed Tinubu reiterates his administration’s commitment to ensuring that Nigeria maximises the country鈥檚 human, material, and intellectual potential for enhanced industrialisation, peace, and prosperity

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Thursday, November 13, 2025, restated his administration’s resolve to ensure that Nigeria maximises its human, material, and intellectual potential for enhanced industrialisation, peace, and prosperity.

Tinubu said this while speaking in the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, in Abuja, FCT, when he received in audience members of Course 33 of the National Defence College (NDC).

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The President charged the participants to view themselves as agents of positive national development and commended them for their patriotic duty and commitment throughout the programme.

The Nigerian leader also restated that the Federal Government would always provide a platform for proffering inclusive solutions to emerging socio鈥揺conomic national challenges.

The President equally noted that his administration was committed to empowering the nation’s defence and military institutions to develop a crop of sufficiently trained officers, thereby enhancing national power in the defence and security environment.

Mr. Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Thursday in a statement noted President Tinubu said: “I congratulate all of you, the leadership of the college, the participants and resource persons.

鈥淲e are building a political, economic and security future here. We must develop Nigeria.

鈥淭he strategic path to industrialisation, as enumerated in your presentation, gives credence to that.鈥�

In the research paper titled, 鈥淗arnessing Indigenous Manufacturing for Enhanced National Security by Year 2040鈥�, the statement disclosed the President assured that his administration would carefully study the recommendations for implementation and challenged the participants to be committed towards intellectual analysis of the nation’s emerging challenges.

Tinubu also stated: “I have listened attentively to your presentation. We must develop future strategic leaders sufficiently equipped with the requisite knowledge and analytical skills necessary to enhance the instrument of national power in a dynamic defence and security environment.

“It is our joint responsibility to ensure that this nation, Nigeria, is productive, it is governed inclusively, and takes care of the future of our generation yet unborn.鈥�

The Nigerian leader asserted: “It is our patriotic duty to look further into the horizon, to be determined and be resilient, to invoke our spirit that can achieve greatness, to train our people, develop our economy, promote industrial development, and ensure that sovereignty is assured, protected, and will remain resilient.

“We challenge our intellectual curiosity by being highly inquisitive and looking at what other nations are doing, where we are today, how we got here, and where we are headed tomorrow.鈥�

President Tinubu also told the Management of the College to be ‘patient’ on the request for the full development of the college’s permanent site, which started way back 2010.

Speaking during the visit, Rear Admiral A. Ahmed, Commandant of the College, said the College, established in 1992, is the highest professional military educational institution in Nigeria.

Ahmed told President Tinubu that the theme of Course 33 was “Strengthening Institutions for National Security and Development in Nigeria.”

According to the Commandant, Course 33 had 99 participants made up of 25 from the Army, 16 from the Nigerian Navy, 12 from the Nigerian Air Force, five from the Police and 18 from different MDAs, as well as 23 international participants from Africa, Asia and South America.

Ahmed further noted that the College has so far graduated 3,097 participants, comprising military officers from the Nigerian Armed Forces, the Police, as well as friendly African countries.

The leader of the team, Captain M.A. Ahmed, informed President Tinubu that the course’s research topic aligns with the Renewed Hope Agenda, particularly in terms of economic diversification through industrialisation, digitalisation, creativity, and manufacturing.

According to him, the National Defence College sent study teams to over 23 countries worldwide, including eight in Africa, nine in Europe, and six in Asia, to study the indigenous manufacturing sector.

This is due to the sector’s significant role in generating wealth, creating jobs, driving economic development, and contributing to the country’s overall growth.

He explained that nations actively pursue industrialisation, economic diversification, national security and national development.

He said that the case of Qatar particularly struck a chord with the team because it shares similar characteristics with Nigeria as part of its economy’s makeup.

The Commandant stated: “Notably, Qatar had a mono-economy in which oil and gas accounted for about 90% of exports and about 51% of the GDP, which was similar to the situation in Nigeria as of 2007.

鈥淭he Qatari government enacted several strategic interventions, and our team drew lessons from the infrastructure.

鈥淭he government of Qatar invested over $300 billion between 2011 and 2022.鈥�

The Research Team, while commending the economic strides of the Tinubu administration, noted that only two countries had better GDP growth projections in 2026 than Nigeria.

The study recommended massive investment in infrastructure, product standardisation, and patronage of the nation’s military industry complex, the Defence Industrial Corporation of Nigeria (DICON), for industrial and backward integration, as well as a quantum leap in employment.

The presentation concluded with a call for presidential directives to implement Project Native 2040, emphasising that visionary leadership and strategic execution will enable Nigeria to harness indigenous manufacturing for national security and development by 2040.

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