At the 19th annual public lecture, organised by the Lagos chapter of the Obafemi Awolowo University Muslim Graduates Association, human development, energy and enabling infrastructure were identified as key for sustainable growth and inclusive national development in Nigeria. Sunday Ehigiator reports
Development is a process that creates growth, progress, positive change or the addition of physical, economic, environmental, social and demographic components. The purpose of development is a rise in the level and quality of life of the population and the creation or expansion of local regional income and employment opportunities, without damaging the resources of the environment. Development is visible and useful, not necessarily immediately, and includes an aspect of quality change and the creation of conditions for a continuation of that change. For an economy that would drive nation development and sustain it, certain things must be put in place.
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