KWARA HERO's NEW YEAR MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER -IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

Our Dearly Beloved President Muhammadu Buhari, permit us to greet you on this auspicious moment as we enter gloriously into the year 2017! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU SIR! 

YOUR EXCELLENCY, We wish you a fruitful year this year 2017; knowing fully well that you have a very enormous responsibility as the Father of Nigeria. We wish you good health and sound state of mind. You will need all the goodwill and best wishes in the face of the daunting challenges which 2017 presents. As part of our New Year greetings, we will be patriotic and fearless enough to bring some obvious issues to your notice. Sir, your past one year and 7 months reign as President of our Dear Nation has been a very difficult period for majority of Nigerians. 

Workers' May Day: Nigeria is not poor - President Jonathan tells World Bank

The Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has faulted the World Bank report which placed the Country among the five poorest countries in the world, saying “the nation is not poor’’.

Speaking at the workers' May Day rally held at the Eagle Square, Abuja, Jonathan said: “The challenge of the country is not poverty, but even redistribution of wealth among Nigerians.’’

President Jonathan, who vehemently said the realities on ground did not portray the country as a poor nation, but a nation whose abundant wealth needed to be evenly redistributed, adding that his administration was working assiduously and putting policies in place to ensure that Nigerians had access to financial resources to create wealth for themselves.

 “Nigeria is not a poor country. Nigerians are the most travelled people. There is no country you go that you will not see Nigerians. The GDP of Nigeria is over half a trillion dollars and the economy is growing at close to 7 per cent. He Said.