President Muhammadu Buhari on
Friday held investment talks with top officials of Japan Bank for International
Cooperation, and Toyota Group.
The meeting was held on the
sideline of the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development,
TICAD 7, in Yokohama, Japan and was contained in a statement signed and
forwarded by his Media Aide, Femi Adesina.
Led by its Deputy Governor, Mr
Nobumitsu Hayashi, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation indicated its
interest in supporting projects in which Japanese companies are involved in
Nigeria.
The bank said it had lots of
resources dedicated for that purpose and would be interested in oil and gas,
and investments in infrastructure.
President Buhari welcomed the
bank, informing the team that Nigeria had introduced the Ease of Doing
Business, and bureaucratic bottlenecks were being cleared off the way.
At a bilateral meeting with
Toyota Tsusho, a part of the Toyota conglomerate, President/CEO of the group,
Ichiro Kashitani, indicated interest in sectors like energy, healthcare and
automobiles, saying Toyota would be delighted to have presence all over
Nigeria.
Kashitani said Toyota Tsusho
wishes to also build an advanced medical diagnostics centre, which would
foreclose need for foreign travel to obtain cutting edge medical diagnosis.
President Buhari urged the group
to also consider setting up a car assembly plant, noting that Nigeria had the
capacity to absorb the investment for positive returns.
At another meeting with the Prime
Minister of Algeria, Noureddine Bedoui, President Buhari counseled that the
political programme in the country be faithfully executed, which would lead to
general elections as soon as possible.
“Algeria is a good pan-Africanist
nation, with a lot of influence over the continent,” the President said.
Prime Minister,Bedoui said
dialogue was in progress with all stakeholders leading to elections, hopefully
by end of the year.
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