The Vice President, Professor
Yemi Osinbajo, is to lead industry titans including Africa’s richest man and
President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, to the maiden edition of
Alaghodaro Investment Summit, to be hosted by the Edo State Government, in
Benin City, beginning on November 10.
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo
with Alhaji Aliko Dangote The three-day summit with the theme: “Envisioning the
Future,” will explore opportunities for local and foreign direct investments in
Edo State by highlighting the state’s competitive advantage across various
sectors.
Also expected at the investment
summit are local and international business leaders and investors, bankers,
financiers, industry experts, policymakers, the diplomatic community and the
academia.
The summit will showcase the reform that the
Obaseki-led government has carried out in critical sectors of the economy such
as the Private Property Protection Law that has sanitised land acquisition and
use, the planned development of 58 tourist sites across the state that will
unlock the tourism potential of the state and the incentives for investment in
the agricultural sector through public private partnership, amongst other
sectors.
According to the Chairman of Alaghodaro 2017
organising committee, Asue Ighodalo: “The world over, governments are looking
beyond oil to alternative revenue sources in order to ensure sustainable
development, and we must also get creative and take action today for our future
and the future of our children.” Ighodalo said that the key areas of focus at
the three-day event would include Law and Order, Civil Service Reform,
Agriculture, Manufacturing, Transportation, Forest Regeneration and
Conservation, Education, Healthcare and Arts and Culture.
He further said that Alaghodaro
Summit, is part of the response of the Edo State Government, under the
leadership of Mr. Godwin Obaseki, to the imminent threat of an oil-dependent
economy.
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