Vision 2020

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua yesterday inaugurated the National Council and the National Steering Committee on Vision 2020, saying that the event marks the beginning of a new dawn in Nigeria's development aspirations.

The development came as the Speaker of the House of Representatives warned that the on-going battle against corruption must be won for the vision to be achieved.

The Vision 2020 is aimed at making Nigeria one of the top 20 economies by the year 2020.

Lamenting Nigeria's unsuccessful attempts at long-term strategic planning and that long-term visioning process had not yielded substantial benefits over the years.

I hope this will not turn to another 'talk and no action'.