By Prince Osuagwu & Providence Obuh

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, sued for peace among all the ethnic groups in Nigeria. Jonathan, who made thee call at the fifth annual Conference of the Academy for Entrepreneurial Studies (AES) in Lagos, said that without peace Nigeria would not achieve any meaningful development.

This was as a former Head of State; General Abudusalami Abubakar who was chairman of the occasion also agreed that the issues of good governance and peaceful coexistence were central to any effort to improve the lot of Nigerian people.

Jonathan, who was represented by the Minster of Works, Arch. Mike Onolememen said: “The task of national transformation is a collective responsibility. We may not achieve any meaningful development without peace. I, therefore, call on all Nigerians and those living in Nigeria to embrace peace and support this administration in her transformational agenda.”

He added: “The present administration lays emphasis on entrepreneurship and human capital development as it is our determination to reduce drastically the level of unemployment in our country.”

Abubakar in his remarks identified three other key challenges, which he said has slowed Nigeria’s march to proper nationhood. He listed them as the absence of stable state institutions, a lingering constitutional problem and a related questions of inequity and inequality.