Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has charged participants at the Nasarawa State University Keffi (NSUK) 1st International Real Sector Conference to proffer practical solutions to rejuvenate the economy.
He gave the charge on the first day of the two days conference on real sector productivity held at the University in Keffi Local Government Area of the state.
The theme of the conference is “Rejuvenating the sector productivity in Nigeria”.
Sule challenged participants to get real and proffer workable and practical solutions that would rejuvenate the real sector in Nigeria for optimal productivity which in turn would impact on the economy of the country positively.
“The question we should be asking ourselves here is that why are we not getting it right in the real sector in Nigeria?
“So let us proffer practical solutions so that we don’t just end up having an event and having all the communique and all that and then they end up in our offices. Let us ask ourselves what is that is possible and how do we contribute,” he said.
He said their recommendations should also be useful in shaping a better future for the real sector in Nigeria so that future Nigerians could build on that.
“So we must sit down and deliberate on what exactly is our problems in this sector. Are we ready to make sacrifices? And we must make sacrifices because that is the only way we can move forward.
“I want to assure you that in Nigeria we can change the narratives but it will take all of you here to convince the rest,” he said.
Prof. Suleiman Bala-Mohammed, Vice Chancellor, NSUK, commended the university’s Department of Business Administration for organizing the conference and urged the department to sustain it as it would be a platform for cross fertilizations of ideas and wider conversations on local and international issues.
He also urged participants to brainstorm and come up with policy recommendations on how to rejuvenate the real sector in Nigeria.
Mr John Mamman, Nasarawa State Commissioner for Education, however, told NAN that he expected the outcome of the conference would change the narratives because the real sector, according to him, is the driver of the economy.
“The manufacturing, construction, engineering and others are the real movers of the economy. Once we get it right from the drivers of the economy, other sectors will also be impacted positively,” he said.
