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President Buhari with Chairman Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko at the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi Kenya on 28th Aug 2016

Ease of doing business: Nigeria will be among top 100 countries by 2019 – President Buhari; Assures: More resources will be voted for agriculture in 2017

President Buhari with Former President of Nigeria Chief Olusegun Obasanjo at the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi Kenya on 28th Aug 2016
President Buhari with Former President of Nigeria Chief Olusegun Obasanjo at the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi Kenya on 28th Aug 2016
President Buhari participating at the Plenary Session of the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi Kenya
President Buhari participating at the Plenary Session of the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi Kenya
President Buhari with Chairman Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko at the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi Kenya on 28th Aug 2016
President Buhari with Chairman Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko at the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi Kenya on 28th Aug 2016
President Buhari with Chairman Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko at the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi Kenya on 28th Aug 2016
President Buhari with Chairman Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko at the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi Kenya on 28th Aug 2016
President Buhari with Former President of Nigeria Chief Olusegun Obasanjo at the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi Kenya on 28th Aug 2016
President Buhari with Former President of Nigeria Chief Olusegun Obasanjo at the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi Kenya on 28th Aug 2016
Nigeria will be one of the most attractive and easiest places to do business in the world by 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday in Nairobi, Kenya.
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.
President Buhari, who also said that the Federal Government will sustain concrete measures to diversify the economy by devoting more resources to agriculture in the 2017 budget, told the Private Sector 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.
Nigeria is currently ranked 169 out of 189 countries by the World Bank, according to the Bank’s 2016 Ease of Doing Business report.
A statement by Garba Shehu, SSA to the President (Media & Publicity) quotes the President as saying: ‘We believe government has a particular responsibility to create right and attractive environment for businesses and economic activities to thrive.
‘‘In furtherance of this vision, we have launched the Presidential Enabling Environment Council, PEEC and Inter-Ministerial Council to oversee the efforts of government to remove various bottlenecks that stifle businesses and economic activities and thereby create economic activities and the right enabling environment and investment climate in Nigeria.
‘‘The secretariat will include strong private sector representation that would be led by experienced business professionals from the private sector.
‘‘We are committed to moving up the ranking of the World Bank’s ease of doing business index 20 places in the first year and be in the top 100 within the next three years,’’ the President said.
On the issue of development of agriculture, President Buhari, while speaking to reporters in Nairobi, Kenya at the weekend on the margins of the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI), said African countries had a lot to learn from Japan on developing agriculture.
‘‘This year, in Nigeria, we started an aggressive farming programme that entails organising farmers into cooperatives in the second and third tier of government.
‘‘We intend to put more resources in our 2017 budget, especially in the procurement of machinery for land clearing, fertilizers, pesticides and training of less-educated farmers, as farm extension instructors.
‘‘We have already registered some success this year in a number of states, we identified some 13 states that will be self-sufficient in rice, wheat and grains before the end of 2018.
‘‘We are very positive that soon we will be able to export these food products. We are also lucky that the farming season in the northern part of the country has been very good and we are expecting a bumper harvest this year,’’ the President said.
On his expectation for TICAD, President Buhari said Japan’s story of rapid economic growth, hardwork and advanced technology should encourage Africans to strive harder and solve its development challenges.
‘‘Japan has greatly advanced in technology, particularly in solar power, infrastructure to spur growth in medium and small-scale industries.
‘‘Because of the advanced use of technology, farming and agriculture can become competitive.
‘‘Japan has the knowledge, technology and capital to assist African countries to develop and Japanese firms are in a very good position to successfully compete for the development of infrastructure in Nigeria,’’ he said.
The President then requested for increased participation of the Japanese government and the private sector in the Nigerian economy.

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