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Niger promises to support investors, boost food production

By BusinessNews Staff on July 6, 2014

Niger State Governor Babangida Aliyu on Saturday said the state had become the destination for most local and foreign investors due to the favourable investment climate created by the government and the prevailing peace in all parts of the state.

He pledged that the government would support genuine investors, renewing the state’s commitment to boost food production.

Aliyu, who said this while speaking at the Niger State day and closing ceremony of the 12th Niger State Trade Fair in Minna, the state capital, declared that as a result of the influx of investors into the state, “we now have a new Niger State.”

The governor was represented by the Secretary to the Niger State Government, Alhaji Ndako Idris.

He assured other investors interested in doing business in the state of the support of the government, adding that the administration would continue to provide the enabling environment for business to thrive.

“Niger State is now the preferred investors’ destination as a result of the peace and favourable climate created by the government,” he said.

Aliyu challenged local industries in the country to produce materials that Nigerians would be able to use and export to neighbouring African countries rather than competing with countries that had well-established industries.

The governor said the state government would take advantage of the Federal Government’s selection of the state as one of the staple crop producing states in the country to increase the production of food and cash crops to boost the income of the local farmers and generate employment for the teaming unemployed youth in the state.

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