Nigeria Vision 2020

The history of economic stagnation, declining welfare and social instability, has undermined development for most of the past 30 years.

These are the countries identified by Goldman Sachs to have the potential for attaining global competitiveness based on their economic and demographic settings and the foundation for reforms already laid.

[1] In order to ensure that all stakeholders across the sectors participate in the Nigeria Vision 2020 processes, thereby guaranteeing peoples' ownership, which is a precondition for any successful development planning, ten Special Interest Groups were formed and tasked with the responsibility of developing Vision documents which cater to and focus on each group.

The NSC2020 should undertake an immediate review of all current strategy and related documents including the President's Seven Point Agenda, the NEEDS 2 and other relevant documents and prepare a Statement of National Priorities that will form the core elements of the country's development plans and budgets during the period 2008 to 2010 and constitute the foundation for V2020.

In stage III, the National Steering Committee will develop detailed key goals and targets that must be met in order to achieve convergence with the projected positions of the top 20 economies.