Lois Otse Adams
The Honourable Minister of State, Finance, Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, played host to Co-chairs of the Joint Planning Committee (JPC) at his office, today, in Abuja. The purpose of the visit was to brief the Honourable Minister on preparations for the upcoming 28th Nigerian Economic Summit, tagged, 2023 & Beyond: Priorities for Shared Prosperity.
Present at the meeting were the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Mr. Nebeolisa Anako, the Chief Operating Officer of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), Dr Tayo Adeloju and members of the team.
Annually, national and global leaders in government, business, politics, development, civil society, and academia convene to discuss issues of sustainable economic development and related matters.
The 28th Edition of the Submit, scheduled to hold on 14th – 15th November, 2022 at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, Nigeria is a hybrid Summit platform of in-persons and virtual dialogues to deliberate on priorities beyond 2023.
Furthermore, areas discussed during the visit is the urgent need for economic brainstorming, as Nigeria proceeds into a transition year and for stakeholders to galvanize and articulate the country’s development imperatives that satisfy the need for economic security, social justice, conscientious governance, political stability and environmental sustainability with the intentional prospect of drawing lessons and insights from the past and present to set the economic policy agenda for sustainable economic development.
Other areas of deliberation during the forthcoming summit, which are Economic Sustainability, Visionary Leadership, Execution, Political Economy, and Inclusive Growth and in addition, the four designed sub-themes on delivering macroeconomic stability, shared prosperity, investment in our future, unlocking the binding constraints to execution and reframing the agenda were discussed.
