Rebuilding Nigeria will hinge largely on the renewal of its social and economic infrastructure, Tony Elumelu, the chairman of United Bank for Africa, said Sunday.
This effort, which entails a contract between the country and its citizenry centring on dedication and sacrifice, requires empowering and rallying together the private sector, civil society, and philanthropies “as real, valued and executing partners,” the top banker remarked in Abuja at the opening of the Nigerian Bar Association annual general conference.
Among the key highlights of his speech was a perennial exodus of young, homegrown talents to the West on account of disillusionment with the state of the nation.