A New horizon
Date
1986-08
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Publisher
Ikoyi, Lagos state (Ikoyi road): Federal Ministry Of Information and Culture,
Abstract
Fundamental Human Rights; Social Services; Rural Development; Foreign Policy; Economic Strategy; Politics of the Future — Towards 1990;
Description
August 27, 1985 marked another landmark in the chequered history of Nigeria as an independent nation. A new military administration with Major-General Ibrahim
Babangida as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces was born on that day after a successful putsch which was heralded with jubilation by an overwhelming majority of Nigerians. The new administration knew very well that it has an uphill task but accepted the challenge of revamping and restructuring the economy that was so badly battered by unpatriotic Nigerian politicians of the second republic. From the inception of the Babangida Administration, it was clear to all and sundry from his pronouncements and early actions that the objectives of the administration were ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION, SOCIAL JUSTICE, SELF RELIANCE and an ardent belief in the fundamental rights of the individual. The general assessment is that the Administration has performed reasonably well in its one year in office. It is to the efforts of the administration towards its set goals in its first year in office that this book is dedicated.