Kehinde Akinpelu
Ilorin
Ambassadorial nominee, Professor Abayomi Sunday Fasina, has expressed appreciation to President Bola Tinubu for nominating him as an Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Fasina expressed the appreciation on Thursday while speaking with journalists on his new status.
When asked how he feels about his nomination, Fasina said, he was excited.
He said: “I want to thank Mr President very much for nominating me. He has the confidence in me that I can deliver.
“I want to thank him for this nomination and the confidence that he has in me.
“He has also made many fantastic appointments of competent people in the past.
“He believes in merit and that has shown in his appointments.”
Fasina, who is a former Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti,; Ekiti State, said he will use his new position to facilitate bilateral dialogues with skills development institutions in his country of assignment.
He stated that President Tinubu’s administration has initiated and implementing policies, programmes and projects that will eventually catapult Nigeria to greater heights and make the country to become a cynosure of all eyes in the comity of nations.
He was of the opinion that Private-Public-Partnership (PPP) will play a greater role in the country’s development if further explored.
He, therefore, called on the private and corporate sectors as well as individuals to collaborate with the present administration for the upliftment of the nation.
According to him, Nigeria has enormous potential and youths need to key into favourable policies, opportunities and good operating environment currently being provided by the Tinubu administration.
He stated that the Nigerian youths are vibrant, resourceful, energetic, adventurous, resilient, productive, technologically savvy, and determined to achieve growth,saying that they must be encouraged to maximise their potentials .
Professor Fasina, however, stated that Nigerian youths in diaspora should come back home to contribute their quota towards nation building and development.
He said : “For me, I tell people, if you must travel abroad, you must go with the aim of knowledge and skills acquisition and bring it back to your country. We need to develop our country.
‘In tourism, we have many exciting sites that when properly developed and harnessed, people from other countries will be trooping in there for tourism.
“Some of the best tourism centers in Africa are Nigeria.
“There are many of such places in this country.
“And once we develop them and put our own people there, train them, they would make a lot of money for the establishments and the nation as well as earn huge income for themselves.
“I tell the youth to sit down, think outside the box,; generate good ideas and create the wealth for themselves and the nation.
“People of other countries are using their resources to develop their countries and making things easier for their people.
“So, we need to build Nigeria as a nation, develop it in a way that we produce what we use and use what we produce.
“And in a way, that people from other countries will come here to promote our economy.”
(vitalnewsngr.com)
