Vice President Kashim Shettima has reiterated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s desire to create an enabling climate in the country for businesses to grow.
As a result, Shettima charged local and foreign investors with making Nigeria their investment hub, predicting that the country’s economy will improve in 15 months.
The task was given by the vice president on Tuesday, when he hosted the management of First Surat Group and the senior management of MTN Nigeria at the presidential palace in Abuja
He asked MTN Nigeria to enable and lead digital mobile money and education.
Shettima, through his spokesman, Stanley Nkwocha, underlined the Tinubu administration’s openness to collaborate with diverse stakeholders in order to help enhance the nation’s productive base and produce jobs.
Shettima praised the professionalism and dedication of Surat Group, which manages Nizamiye Hospital, Nizamiye Foundation, and its educational institutions, and added that the group, with its 2,500 employees, provides to over 100,000 extended families and dependents.
He stated: “Agriculture remains key to the Nigerian economy. You may wish to consider divesting from the health and education sectors where you have distinguished yourself and delve into agric business where we have huge investment potential.”
For MTN Nigeria, the Vice President reaffirmed the telecoms behemoth of the federal government’s resolve to eliminating all impediments to business.
VP Shettima stated that the days of double taxation and unnecessary bottlenecks are over, and that President Tinubu’s policy of ease of doing business would be carried through.
He instructed the telecommunications giant to consider fast-tracking digital mobile money and digital education in Nigeria, promising that Nigeria’s economy will improve dramatically in less than 15 months.
Earlier, Dr Ali Maina, chairman of First Surat Group, expressed gratitude to the Vice President, noting that, in addition to the company’s extensive interest and strategic relationships, its corporate social responsibility has seen it invest millions of naira in the lives and wellbeing of Nigerians.
Ernest Ndukwe, chairman of MTN Nigeria, and Karl Olutokun Toriola, chief executive officer, stated the telecoms firm remains committed to President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
They stated that MTN Nigeria will launch the much-needed 5D network in Nigeria in the near future.
