Nigerians have been urged to continue to support the policies and programmes of President Bola Tinubu’s administration to fast-track sustainable social and economic development in the country.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, made the call in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state, during a town hall meeting organised by the Ministry to sensitise the public on the significant milestones recorded by the present administration in the past two years.
Alhaji Idris, who was represented by the Head of centre, Federal Information centre and Zonal coordinator South South, Mr Francis Umoekut, stated that within the past two years, the federal government had made visible landmark achievements, specifically in the areas of infrastructural development and other dividends of democracy in the South-South zone and across the nation.
He stressed the need for citizens to exercise patience and support the government’s policies to enable it to achieve the set objectives.
In their separate speeches, Bayelsa state Commissioner for Information, represented by the Director of Information, Prince Sheriff Hussain and the representative of the Chairman of Yenagoa local government area, Mr Ebiwari Tari, noted that the state has benefited from the federal government’s numerous programmes, citing the major intervention by the federal government on the Nembe-Brass road project.
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In a presentation, a resource person, the General Manager of NTA Yenagoa, Madam Dauju Whyte, who enumerated the achievements of President Tinubu within the past two years, said a lot of progress had been achieved in the areas of Agriculture, Health, Human capital and infrastructural Development, oil and gas, amongst others.
Madam Whyte also urged students in tertiary institutions in the state to avail themselves of the opportunity of the federal government’s intervention programmes in the education sector to improve their well-being.
Some of the participants stressed the need for constant sensitisation and information dissemination to people at the grassroots for them to be carried along in the scheme of things by the federal government.
The event was attended by youth groups, market men and women and representatives of professional bodies in the state.
