Adedipe, also a management and financial consultant, said this at the annual forum of The Platform on Wednesday in Lagos.
“As a Nigerian, economist and someone who deals with data, I challenge them because none of those who made such claims has been able to prove it.“If you say you conducted a survey, then I want to know where it was conducted, how you drew your sample from the population, your response rate and the usual measures of confidence in statistical analysis.“I haven’t seen any of such and unfortunately, they reel out these data and we begin to amplify it.
Adedipe described Nigerians as incredibly hardworking people who think out opportunities in every situation and excel. “Even the foreigners seems to see more opportunities in Nigeria than we Nigerians do, and also have more confidence in us than we have in ourselves,” Adedipe said. “The finest moment for any nation is when entrepreneurs rise by creating the enabling environment and funds.In her remarks, Mrs Ibukun Awosika, Chairman, First Bank of Nigeria, called for a national conversation to restrategise interventions that could address the economic challenges of the country.
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