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January 9, 2020
The Federal Government has re-affirmed its commitment tocreate an enabling environment to attract more investment opportunities intothe country.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Industry, Trade andInvestment, Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, gave the assurance in a statement in Abuja whena delegation from the West Africa Trade and Investment Hub, WATIH visited him.The delegation was led by its Director-General, Michael Clements, to inform theministry of its programme.
WATIH is funded under the United States Agency forInternational Development, USAID, set up in September 2019 with the objectiveof investing ninety million dollars, in which sixty million dollars had alreadybeen released for investment into Nigerian economy.
The programme has a view of creating forty thousand jobs inthe private sector, out of which 50 percent was reserved solely for women toinvest in waste management industry.
Clements also noted that WATIH would be working in sevenstates in Nigeria – Benue; Cross-River; Delta; Kaduna; Ebonyi; Kebbi; and NigerStates. He said that the programme would increase production of value chain inmaize, coffee, soya-bean, cow-pea , rice and fish-farming.