2026 Is Nigeria’s Acceleration Year, Says President Tinubu
Opening: Reform Leaves Traces, Growth Builds Tracks
DEAR compatriots, 2026 begins with national gratitude and strategic clarity. In 2025, reform left its traces—fiscal realignment, improving GDP cadence, moderated FX volatility, and falling inflation. But 2026 will build the tracks: faster growth, broader inclusion, deeper investment and community-level economic activation.
Economic Forensics: Surplus, Stocks, Reserves
Quarterly GDP expanded robustly, on course to exceed 4 per cent annualised growth. Nigeria protected its trade surplus status, stabilised exchange liquidity and delivered a market-leading 48.12 per cent annual stock gain. External buffers rose to $45.4 billion by December 29, giving the Naira structural defence against external shocks. FDI’s surge to $720 million in Q3 marked a renewed confidence cycle backed by positive sovereign credit signals.
Fiscal Rewiring: Harmonised Taxes, Expanded Investment
Our 2026 budget proposal prioritises productive investment space as inflation and interest rates cool. We are removing distortive, overlapping taxes while building a fair, competitive fiscal grid to sustainably raise revenue for infrastructure and social investment. Tax reform is capacity-building—not household invasion, but national economic rewiring.
Security Grid: Precision, Intelligence, Accountability
Economic progress without peace is incomplete. On December 24, 2025, Nigeria deployed precision security actions against terror networks in the North-West with international collaboration. Our Armed Forces continue coordinated offensives in the North-West and North-East. In 2026, we will intensify intelligence partnerships, deepen regional cooperation, and advance decentralised policing frameworks supported by regulated forest-guard models, all rooted in accountability.
Grassroots Expansion: 10 Million Economic Participants
This year, we scale the Renewed Hope Ward Development Programme to empower 10 million Nigerians into productive economic participation, lifting 1,000 citizens per ward across 8,809 wards. Agriculture, processing, trade and mining will drive community-level expansion. Infrastructure modernisation—roads, power, ports, rail, airports, healthcare and education—continues without interruption.
Closing: A Compact for Acceleration
Fellow Nigerians, 2026 is our acceleration year. Unity is our engine. Accountability is our guardrail. Inclusion is our mandate. I wish you peace and prosperity. God bless Nigeria.
