The diplomatic community in Nigeria, according to the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), is essential to the country’s effort to attract foreign direct investments.
This was said over the weekend at a stakeholder engagement meeting with the diplomatic community in Abuja by Saratu Umar, the NIPC’s executive secretary.
In order to support a National Investment Promotion Campaign under the National Investment Promotion Masterplan and the National Investment Coordination Framework being established by the NIPC, she asked the diplomats in the ecosystem for investment promotion to collaborate with the commission.Umar stated, “We acknowledge that the world diplomatic and development community have successfully channeled investors’ opinions about the investment climate of our magnificent country by working together with us to achieve mutually beneficial goals, especially throughthe support in policy advocacy.
“We thank the diplomatic community for this mutually beneficial service to both the host country as well as their own home countries, investment rests on good teamwork between the national investment promotion agencies, the embassies and diplomatic nation and other stakeholders to ensure a win-win situation.”
The chairman of the NIPC outlined how the organization is creating a well-coordinated ecosystem for investment promotion so that government actors may play complementary roles in bringing in, keeping, and expanding investments in Nigeria.”As NIPC strategies to deepen the investment promotion drive of Nigeria and the day-to-day problem-solving are established and incoming investors are being put in place,” Umar said. “
Nigeria is being positioned as a preferred destination of choice.”The meeting, she continued, was crucial because diplomats oversee connections and offer the pertinent information that investors need to make wise investment choices.