{
  "id": 6143703,
  "title": "Benue 2035 Summit: Alia charges participants with developing practical pathway to prosperity",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/benue-2035-summit-alia-charges-participants-with-developing-practical",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-07T15:28:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Post Nigeria",
    "slug": "daily-post-nigeria",
    "url": "https://dailypost.ng/2026/09/07/benue-2035-summit-alia-charges-participants-with-developing-practical-pathway-to-prosperity/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Benue State Governor Rev. Fr Hyacinth Alia addressed attendees at the Benue 2035 Economic Transformation, Capital Formation and Prosperity Summit, urging them to craft actionable plans aimed at luring investment, generating employment, and enhancing the living standards of locals. Delivering his opening remarks at the Fr Alia Conference Hall in Makurdi, Alia emphasized that the gathering needed to result in specific decisions, quantifiable results, and actionable guidelines - not just another report left to gather dust on a shelf. He reminded the audience that potential alone does not transform a society; it must be turned into opportunity, opportunity into investment, investment into productive activity, and productive activity into jobs, income, and improved quality of life.\n\nThe governor explained that the summit was intended to guide Benue from potential to prosperity by establishing investment priorities and execution strategies to shape the state’s long-term development. He encouraged participants to think boldly, question established norms, learn from successful examples globally, and identify what could feasibly work in Benue. Alia highlighted that his government was not seeking a debate on whether Benue should pursue development, attract private capital, modernize government, create jobs, improve security, and expand its productive economy – these were interconnected issues, as agriculture couldn't prosper without security, businesses couldn't be productive without infrastructure and reliable power, and investment couldn't flourish without confidence.\n\nHe called for proposals that were ambitious yet realistic, innovative yet implementable, and directly linked to job creation and household prosperity. Alia also asked participants to evaluate every proposal against two questions: whether it would protect people and whether it would provide them with a genuine route to a better life. \"If a proposal does neither, then we must honestly ask ourselves why the Government should commit its limited time, energy and resources,\" he said. The summit would conclude with an executive review, strategic alignment, and approval, guiding participants from ideas to choices, choices to action, and action to measurable results. Alia stressed that while the next election mattered, the future and prosperity of Benue mattered more, stating that the state’s development plan should transcend an election cycle, an administration, or any single individual. He expressed confidence that the participants would deliver recommendations capable of significantly improving the lives of Benue residents.",
  "summary": "Benue State Governor Rev. Fr Hyacinth Alia has charged participants at the Benue 2035 Economic Transformation, Capital Formation and Prosperity Summit to develop practical strategies capable of attracting investment, creating jobs and improving the quality of life of residents. He gave the charge at the Fr Alia Conference Hall, SEMA, Makurdi, during his opening remarks […] Benue 2035 Summit: Alia…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}