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.
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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