President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday inaugurated the sixty-nine standing committees of the upper legislative chamber and charged them to carry out their duties towards addressing development challenges facing the nation.
He said the challenge of security and youth development remains key to national development and urged that the committees should work towards improving the lots of Nigerians.
Lawan pointed out that the agricultural opportunity for Nigeria is vast and should be tapped into to address the issue of youth unemployment in the country.
The President of the Senate who pointed out that Nigeria is endowed with great resources said the committees as instruments of carrying out legislative duties should look into how the nation can fully benefit from these endowments.
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According to him: “Our country is facing the challenges of insecurity, while our largely youthful population is affected by unemployment, among other problems. Fortunately, we are also blessed with abundant agricultural land.
“We are similarly endowed with abundant solid minerals in all parts of our country. The oil and gas resources have remained our major source of revenue.
“Our challenges can be appropriately addressed with our rich endowments. What we require therefore is the strategic deployment of those resources.
“We can plan and use our agricultural potentials to achieve not only national food security but also the process for exports. Again, our solid minerals sector is largely untapped and we can exploit those resources through the right policies and supportive legislations,” Lawan stated.
