The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, has said Nigeria is fully committed to infrastructural development that will meet the needs of its citizenry.
The SGF gave the assurance on Thursday when he received representatives from a consortium of companies from America and South Korea who visited him in his office.
He assured the investors and international partners of government’s preparedness in welcoming any individual that has genuine interest to do business in the country as there is an enabling environment for such investment to thrive.
The SGF further assured them that government will do everything possible to support them where there are constraints in getting approval and acquiring license from TCN, NERC, Ministry of Power, Works and Housing or Environment that would enable them to carry out their projects in energy.
“We want to invite the whole world to come and invest in Nigeria. As a country and government, we are interested in issuance of any license and we will treat it with dispatch,” the SGF said in a statement signed by a spokesman in his office, Mr. Andrew Agyo Uhwe.
He presented to the investors the areas of the country’s concern as in tackling the 17 million housing deficit, energy distribution because of the rise in the generation among other things.
He advised them to do a formal letter that will contain details of the projects and also enumerate areas of constraints.
In his remark, the leader of the delegation, Terey Molelawn, said they were in the office to seek for government’s support in acquiring license and in getting gas for the power project in the country.
He assured that they are bringing the funding and were determined to assist NNPC with pipeline that will connect to the grid.
He said that in the next 90 days there will be ground breaking of the project which is valued at $10billion and the first stage will kick start with $3billion.