DANGOTE OPINES TO SAVE NIGERIA ECONOMY

The Dangote group has called on private investors to invest their money in the real sector of the economy, especially in manufacturing and agriculture.

The executive director of Dangote group, Mr Devakumar Edwin, stated that the business community has a bigger role to play, even as the government make  right policy in encouraging investors.

He encouraged that, business communities should move from importation to production following the continuous crash in the crude oil price at the international market and the subsequent devaluation of the naira.

He also pointed out that Nigeria has left its economic fortunes to the vagaries of the international market force through excessice importation and it was a high time private investors latched in on this situation and help the government out by investing seriously in agriculture manufacturing to savage the Nigeria economy.

In his words: The potentials and opportunities for business are phenomenon and Nigeria has a huge quantity of arable land and water and lots of raw materials and mineral resources, have a market because of the population, you have the people to produce, you have a lot of mineral which you can develop for export".

Nigeria is has indeed what it takes for any country to succeed economically.