The Presidency has released a comprehensive list of President Muhammadu Buhari’s major achievements in various sectors of the economy.
The 119-page publication highlights the administration’s landmark achievements in security and justice, the economy, power, housing, and infrastructure, among others.
One of the administration’s most notable achievements, according to the list released on Monday, was in the area of security.
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Since taking office in 2015, the Buhari administration has procured 38 brand new aircraft for the Air Force, including 10 super Mushshak, five MI-35 helicopters, and two bell helicopters, the list stated.
Additionally, the Air Force now has in its possession 12 A-29 Tucano, four Agusta, and three JF-17 Thunder, with another 12 new attack helicopters and 24 M-346 fighter attack aircraft expected to arrive soon.
It said that these acquisitions have significantly boosted the Air Force’s capacity to combat terrorism and other security threats in the country.
The presidency said:
“For the first time in history, the NAF has under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration successfully conducted several in-country periodic depot maintenance and avionics upgrades of some of its platforms.”
For the Navy, it stated that more than 400 new platforms are now available, including 200 riverine patrol boats, 114 rigid hull inflatable boats, 22 fast attack boats, 14 unmanned aerial vehicles, four barges, and four helicopters, among others.
It said:
“In line with the president’s directive, the Nigerian navy has established a naval base at Lake Chad in Baga, Borno state, and has received presidential approval for new naval bases in Lekki, Oguta, and Kano.”
Furthermore, the presidency disclosed that the outgoing administration procured hundreds of battle tanks, mine sweepers, armoured fighting vehicles, mountain climber bikes, infantry fighting vehicles, MRAPS, light tanks, and several others for the military.
The presidency said:
“Most recently in 2023, the Nigerian military acquired 700 brand new troop carrying vehicles all assembled in Nigeria.”
According to it, about 20,000 new police officers were recruited in two tranches of 10,000, while processes for the third batch are ongoing to hit 40,000 in no distant future.
In 2021 and 2022 alone, Buhari Government stated the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested 24,000 drug traffickers, including 29 barons, while 3,400 offenders were convicted.
It also seized drugs and cash of more than four hundred and fifty billion naira, and destroyed 772 hectares of cannabis farms.
Buhari Government said:
“The Infrastructure Corporation of Nigeria (InfraCorp) was established by President Buhari in February 2021, with an initial seed Capital of N1 trillion, provided by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) and the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC).
“InfraCorp’s goal is to catalyse and accelerate investment into Nigeria’s infrastructure sector by originating, structuring, executing, and managing end-to-end bankable projects in that space.
“In addition to the N1 trillion equity seed capital, InfraCorp is expected to mobilise up to an additional N14 trillion of debt capital. Establishment in 2020 of the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF), with more than $1 billion in funding so far.”
Additionally, the presidency mentioned that Buhari’s achievements in infrastructure included the 156 kilometre Lagos-Ibadan rail line, the purchase of 64 coaches and 21 locomotives, 186-kilometre Abuja-Kaduna rail, and the completion of the 327km Itakpe-Warri standard gauge rail.
Buhari Government completef an incremental 4,000mw of power-generating assets, including the Zungeru hydro, Kashimbila, Adam 111, Kudenda, Okpai phase 11, Dangote power plant, among others.
In Oil and Gas, the presidency said it signed the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), Nigeria’s Decade of Gas, the ongoing 614-kilometer Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas project, the $1.4 billion Nigeria-Morocco ammonia facility, among several others.
The Buhari administration also listed the take-off of the Nigerian Maritime University in Okerenkoko, Delta State, which was approved in January 2018 by the National Universities Commission (NUC) to commence undergraduate degree programmes as one its gains.
It said:
“President Buhari approved N5 billion in take-off grant for the Maritime University.”
It listed the resumption of work on the 337km East-West Road project, originally awarded in 2006. It promised to complete it in 2022/23.
It stated that the Ogoni clean-up for which one hundred and seventy million dollars in funding was set aside.
Approvals for the establishment of private-sector-led modular refineries across the nine states of the Niger Delta were also part of what Buhari administration achieved.
The publication further highlighted the payments to states amounting to two trillion naira in bailouts in the heat of the economic recession.
It said:
“The Buhari administration had extended more than N2 trillion in bailout packages to states to enable them to meet their salary and pension obligations, especially in the face of dwindling oil revenues in the first three years of the administration.”
The Presidency stated that in March 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, it set up an Economic Sustainability Committee chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
The committee it said developed a comprehensive economic plan to respond to the disruptions and dislocations caused by the pandemic which effectively handled the challenges occasioned by the pandemic.
It revealed that the plan developed by the Committee focused on key areas such as job creation, infrastructure development, and support for small businesses.
