Canadian investors have been asked to leverage the huge investment opportunities in Nigeria’s capital city by investing in agriculture, infrastructure development, transportation, and other business opportunities the FCT offers.
FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Aliyu, made the call when she led a delegation of FCT to the just concluded inaugural Canada-Nigeria Investment Expo with the theme: “Creating Enduring Partnership” held at the Ontario Investment Trading Centre, Canada.
Special Assistant on Media to the minister, Mr Austin Elemue, in a statement, said that the participation of the FCT Administration in the investment summit has opened up more opportunities for Foreign Direct Investment into the FCT.
Elemue disclosed that already various business groups in Canada have indicated interest to invest in Abuja, stressing that the Abuja Investment Company Limited, AICL, and Abuja Infrastructure Investment Centre, AIIC, would be working with the Ease of Doing Business unit to facilitate the process for speedy implementation.
The statement quoted the minister as saying, “The Expo provided business investors from FCT and other parts of Nigeria with the opportunity to connect with Economic Development Organizations and Global Business leaders from across Canada to facilitate Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, and Public Private Partnership in Nigeria”.
Also, the Nigerian High Commissioner to Canada, Adeyinka Asekun, in his remarks at the summit outlined the various efforts made by the Embassy that have yielded results.
He said one of such moves was the Canadian Governor General High powered visit to Nigeria in 2017 and the visit of Nigeria Business community to Canada in 2018.
At the sidelines of the expo, the minister held meetings with the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, and other ministers in charge of economic development, job creation, sports, tourism, agriculture amongst others.
Highpoint of the event were presentations from the mandate secretaries EPRG&PPP, agriculture and social development.