The Acting President, Professor
Yemi Osinbajo will on Monday pay a one-day official visit to Niger State.
He will be joined by former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, immediate past military head of state, General Abdulsalami Alhaji Abubakar and Governor Abubakar Sani Bello to flag off Niger State Investment Summit holding in Minna, the Niger state capital.
He will be joined by former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, immediate past military head of state, General Abdulsalami Alhaji Abubakar and Governor Abubakar Sani Bello to flag off Niger State Investment Summit holding in Minna, the Niger state capital.
The two day summit tagged, “Truly
Niger” with the theme, “Impact Investing for Advancing Agricultural Economy and
Innovation,” is packaged to sell the state to local and international
investment community and to showcase her potentials in agriculture and solid
mineral resources, tourism, sports and others.
The summit will provide platform
where the impact investment community can share ideas, connect and network,
create new opportunities for developing the market and creating new
opportunities for impact investing as well as to market the state as a unique,
friendly and peaceful business and investment destination.
Governor Sani Bello who will be
joined by other state governors will present a paper titled, ” Uncovering Niger
State – The State, the Strategy and Investor Information” while the Sultan of
Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Muhammadu Abubakar, Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar and
Alhaji Aliko Dangote are also to give good will messages at the summit.
Also Minister of State, Ministry
of Industry, Trade and Investment, Hajiya Aisha Abubakar, her counterpart in
the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, Mr. Uche Orji,
Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, Barrister
Maryam Uwais, Presidential Special Adviser on Social Protection Plan and Alhaji
Ibrahim Bagudu Shettima, a former deputy director of Central Bank of Nugeria
are to discuss “Investment Promotion in Challenging Economic Times”.
Senior Special Assistant to the
President, Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole will look at the
“Ease of doing business in Nigeria.”
The Niger State Government will
during the summit be signing a Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs)with Dangote
Group for the start up of some exciting investments driven by the group and
Metropolitan Motors for the setting up of an auto assembly and service plant in
the state along with others.
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