Nigeria, April 28 -- When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assumed office on 29 May, 2023, he inherited an economy in shambles and on life-support, while haemorrhaging seriously from criminalised state subsidies, all manners of financial arbitrages, a widening fiscal deficit, crumbling infrastructure, and a financial system that excluded roughly 28 million adults. Hence, there was the immediate need to activate the policy platform he had campaigned on, while seeking office to stem the negative tide - the Renewed Hope Agenda.

This is a strategic framework of five interconnected pillars - fiscal discipline, economic reform, infrastructure expansion, local industry support, and financial inclusion. This sets out on a swift re-engineering of the ...