President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has formally welcomed Nigerians to the New Yr, with a promise of higher days forward.

Naija Information experiences that the President made the promise in a New Yr message to Nigerians launched on Wednesday morning, January 1st, 2025.

In his message, Tinubu mentioned financial indicators level to a constructive and inspiring outlook for the nation.

He mentioned gas costs have steadily decreased, and the nation recorded international commerce surpluses in three consecutive quarters.

In accordance with him, international reserves have risen, and the Naira has strengthened in opposition to the US greenback, bringing better stability.

Learn Tinubu’s full speech beneath:

Fellow Nigerians,

As we enter 2025, I want everybody a contented and affluent New Yr. Might you be wealthy in pleasure, success, and good well being.

As the brand new 12 months dawns, it brings many hopes, aspirations, and prospects for higher days. By the grace of God, 2025 will probably be a 12 months of nice promise wherein we’ll fulfill our collective needs.

Although 2024 posed quite a few challenges to our residents and households, I’m assured that the New Yr will convey brighter days.

Financial indicators level to a constructive and inspiring outlook for our nation. Gas costs have steadily decreased, and we recorded international commerce surpluses in three consecutive quarters. International reserves have risen, and the Naira has strengthened in opposition to the US greenback, bringing better stability.

The inventory market’s report progress has generated trillions of naira in wealth, and the surge in international funding displays renewed confidence in our economic system. Nonetheless, the price of meals and important medication remained a major concern for a lot of Nigerian households in 2024.

In 2025, our authorities is dedicated to intensifying efforts to decrease these prices by boosting meals manufacturing and selling native manufacturing of important medication and different medical provides. We’re resolute in our ambition to cut back inflation from its present excessive of 34.6% to fifteen%. With diligent work and God’s assist, we’ll obtain this objective and supply aid to all our folks.

On this new 12 months, my administration will additional consolidate and enhance entry to credit score for people and important sectors of the economic system to spice up nationwide financial output.

To realize this, the federal authorities will set up the Nationwide Credit score Assure Firm to broaden risk-sharing devices for monetary establishments and enterprises.

The Firm—anticipated to begin operations earlier than the tip of the second quarter—is a partnership of presidency establishments, such because the Financial institution of Business, Nigerian Shopper Credit score Company, the Nigerian Sovereign Funding Company, and Ministry of Finance Integrated, the non-public sector, and multilateral establishments.

This initiative will strengthen the boldness of the monetary system, broaden credit score entry, and help under-served teams similar to girls and youth. It would drive progress, re-industrialisation, and higher residing requirements for our folks.

On a private notice, thanks for putting your confidence in me as your president. Your belief humbles me, and I promise to proceed serving you diligently and wholeheartedly.

We’ll proceed to embark on mandatory reforms to foster sustainable progress and prosperity for our nation.

I search your cooperation and collaboration always as we pursue our objective of a one trillion-dollar economic system. Allow us to keep centered and united.

We’re on the fitting path to constructing an excellent Nigeria that can work for everybody. Allow us to not get distracted by a tiny section of our inhabitants that also sees issues via the prisms of politics, ethnicity, area, and faith.

CITIZENSHIP

To realize our nationwide objectives and aims, we should turn out to be higher residents and uncompromising in our devotion and allegiance to Nigeria.

Residents’ ethical rectitude and religion in our nation are elementary to the success of the Renewed Hope Agenda. In 2025, we’ll decide to selling adherence to moral rules, shared values, and beliefs underneath the Nationwide Id Venture.

I’ll unveil the Nationwide Values Constitution, already authorized by the Federal Govt Council, within the first quarter of 2025. I’ll launch an formidable nationwide orientation marketing campaign that fosters patriotism and love for our nation and evokes residents to rally collectively. The Constitution will promote mutual commitments between the federal government and residents and foster belief and cooperation amongst our numerous inhabitants and between the federal government and the residents.

As far-reaching and foundational as our reforms are, they will produce the specified outcomes solely via shared widespread values and identities and unconditional love for our nation.

The Youth Confab will start within the first quarter of 2025, a testomony to our dedication to youth inclusiveness and funding as nation-builders. The Ministry of Youth will quickly announce the modalities for choosing the convention’s representatives from our numerous, youthful inhabitants.

Pricey Compatriots, I urge you to proceed believing in yourselves and retaining religion in our blessed nation.

Let me use this New Yr’s message to induce our governors and native council chairpersons to work carefully with the central authorities to grab rising alternatives in agriculture, livestock, and tax reforms and transfer our nation ahead. I commend governors who’ve embraced our Compressed Pure Fuel initiative by launching CNG-propelled public transport. I additionally congratulate those that have adopted electrical automobiles as a part of our nationwide vitality combine and transition. The Federal Authorities will at all times supply mandatory help to the states.

To all residents, your sacrifices haven’t been in useless over the previous 19 months. I guarantee you they won’t be in useless even within the months forward. Collectively, allow us to keep the course of nation-building.

The New Yr will convey us nearer to the brilliant future all of us want and the Nigeria of our desires.

God bless you all, and should God bless our beloved nation, Nigeria.

Joyful New Yr and a affluent 2025 to you all!

Bola Ahmed Tinubu,

President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
January 1, 2025.