The Chairman, Governing Council, Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), Babangida Nguroje, has said that Nigeria will soon be in the league of 190 business community-nations of the world despite the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic and its latest variant.
Nguroje, a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, said this Saturday in Abuja.
He commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the Trade and Investment Minister, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, for taking deliberate steps towards having Nigeria in the league.
Daily Trust on Sunday reports that the president, alongside 10 cabinet ministers and chief executives of government agencies and parastatals, attended a business exhibition in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the weekend with the theme: “Expo 2020”, which was postponed last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The NIPC board chairman said the Expo had afforded and unveiled investment opportunities for Nigerian investors with specific project profiles and investment opportunities to a single location with an attracting long-term investment into critical sectors.
