{"id":16671,"date":"2019-04-09T07:41:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T07:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16671"},"modified":"2019-04-09T07:41:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T07:41:27","slug":"come-to-nigeria-and-prosper-buhari-tells-uae-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16671","title":{"rendered":"Come to Nigeria and prosper, Buhari tells UAE investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Release<\/strong><br \/>\nBy\u00a0<strong>Femi Adesina<\/strong>, Special Adviser to the President, (Media and Publicity)<br \/>\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari Monday met with six different groups of investors at the sidelines of the Annual Investment Meeting in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He had a message for them all: Come to Nigeria and prosper. Come and have handsome returns on your investments, within the shortest possible time.<br \/>\nSheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum is a member of the Dubai ruling family. He is also a private investor and member of several boards of companies, both state owned and private. He is interested in establishing a power plant in Lagos, and studies have already been completed.<br \/>\nLulu Group operates a chain of supermarkets in the Middle East and Asia. Mr Yusuff Alli, Chairman of the group, told President Buhari that the outfit, with headquarters in Abu Dhabi, has over 164 supermarkets and shopping malls. It employs over 50,000 people.<br \/>\nThe interest is to work with Nigerian farmers, using local produce to ensure food security. Quality, affordability and hygiene are the watchwords of the company.<br \/>\nAlso in bilateral meeting with President Buhari was Sheikh Hussain Al Nowais, Chairman of Amea Power. The company develops, owns, and operates thermal and renewable energy projects in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Its wide range of power solutions include conventional \u2013 gas, coal, oil, and renewable \u2013 solar, wind and hydro.<br \/>\nApart from power, the company, which owns Rotana Hotel chain, is also interested in the hospitality sector in Nigeria.<br \/>\nAlso on cue was Sheikh Ali Rashid Lootah, Chairman, Nakheel Properties and Limitless Group.<br \/>\nOne of the world&#8217;s leading developers and a major contributor to Dubai&#8217;s real estate transformation, the company&#8217;s current and future retail project portfolio covers nearly 17 million square feet of leasable space. They are keen to expand their investments in Nigeria.<br \/>\nSheikh Khalid Bin Kalban is the CEO of Dubai Investments. His meeting with the Nigerian president centred around real estate, processing industries, mergers and acquisitions, health care, education, and financial investments.<br \/>\nAbu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) has supported over 66 projects in 29 African countries. They include rural solar power and water projects, and that was the focus of the discussion, as Sheikh Mohammed Saif Al Suwaidi, the CEO, met with President Buhari.<br \/>\nThe bilateral sessions were not concluded, till the Nigerian president had met with Mr Jitender Sachdeva, CEO Skipperseil Group. An integrated energy company with operations in the manufacturing of substation equipment,\u00a0discussions were on engineering processing, construction of transmission lines and substations for utilities, institutions and industries.<br \/>\nThe company\u2019s CEO expressed delight at meeting with President Buhari, and looked forward to doing good business in Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release By\u00a0Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President, (Media and Publicity) President Muhammadu Buhari Monday met with six different groups of investors at the sidelines of the Annual Investment Meeting in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He had a message for them all: Come to Nigeria and prosper. Come and have handsome returns on your investments, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}