NIGERIA WILL BE TOP 100 COUNTRIES BY 2019 - BUHARI

NIGERIA WILL BE TOP 100 COUNTRIES BY 2019 - BUHARI

Sunday, August 28, 2016

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resident Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday in Nairobi, Kenya that Nigeria will be one of the most attractive and easiest places of doing business in the world by 2019.


Speaking at a plenary session on “Dialogue with the Private Sector” at the sixth Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD VI), President Buhari said his administration is implementing policies and measures to create right and enabling environment for business and investors in Nigeria.


Nigeria is currently ranked 169 out of 189 countries by the World Bank, according to the Bank’s 2016 Ease of Doing Business report.


But Buhari, in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, told the session attended by several African leaders, Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and international business executives that his administration’s vision and objective is to make Nigeria one of the top investment destinations in the world, within the shortest possible time. Read more