The President of the World Bank, David Malpass has advised the regime of the President, Major General Muhammad Buhari on how to better Nigeria.

Speaking at the 2020 Annual Meetings press conference, Malpass stated the position of the World Bank regarding human capital in Africa, Nigeria in particular.

According to Malpass, goof governance and transparency will be effective in the fight against corruption in the country.

“We have an enormous youth population with rising unemployment, and now an added coronavirus concern. Do you see a problem or opportunity” a journalist asked.

Replying to the question, Malpass said, “It’s harder to see the opportunities; this is a bad thing that happened to the world and particularly to poor people in the world because there’s not an evident solution.

“As I discussed earlier, the K-shaped recovery is a daunting challenge, because of the inequality that is expressed in that kind of outlook.

“For Nigeria, the vital steps are to strengthen the health system and the education system, and we try to work in those areas.

“Also, the governance system and transparency are vital in order to reduce the corruption within the system.”

On the question of opportunities, the institution urged countries to think about where they want to be in a post-COVID world that’s going to be very different from the pre-COVID-19 world.

“That means a different way of people interacting, hopefully, better; a greener way of operating; and an emphasis on health care.

“I mentioned earlier that we’ve extended the emergency health response to include vaccines and distribution of vaccines for COVID-19, but it also has the benefit of helping the vaccination programs in other areas and the healthcare outreach in other areas that will be so valuable”, Malpass said.