Buhari optimistic about recession subsiding in 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday expressed optimism that the current economic recession in Nigeria would come to an end in 2017.

He gave the assurance on Monday in Abuja, the nation’s capital, while declaring open an induction course organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Nigerian Career Ambassadors-designate.

Buhari expressed the hope that external factors that partly contributed to the recession would ebb in 2017.

According to him, the prevailing economic circumstances have led to a restructuring of Nigerian missions abroad.

He urged the ambassadors-designate to change the narrative of Nigeria outside the country by playing up the positive values and outstanding contributions of Nigerians in the global arena.

He urged them to mobilize, sensitize and motivate all their staff so that together they could engage with their host governments, the private sector and other segments of the society to explain that “Nigeria is much more than the negative image portrayed to them”.