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Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has implicit 2 years of acquisition covering governmental parties and movements.
Taraba state - Nigeria's Vice President, Kashim Shettima, was successful attendance arsenic Governor Agbu Kefas-led authorities organised the first-ever Taraba International Investment Summit, dubbed TARAVEST 2025, which took spot connected Wednesday, May 21, 2025, with an array of salient personalities from crossed the globe.
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Taraba Hosts First-Ever International Investment Summit
Leading the roll-call of salient Nigerians astatine the lawsuit see Shettima, respective governors, erstwhile Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Africa's richest antheral and concern mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, andCEO of UBA, Mr. Tony Elumelu.
Others are Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi (the Ọjájá II), Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, captains of industries, members of diplomatic corps, spiritual leaders, section and planetary investors.
Declaring the acme open, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, represented by Vice President Shettima, recognized the earthy resources that abound successful Taraba authorities and described the concern acme arsenic a telephone for concern to harness them.
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Shettima, Dangote, Elumelu, Atiku, others backmost Taraba's concern drive
He explained that Nigeria has a amended accidental to vie with the remainder of the satellite if its economical opportunities are explored.
He said his medication has rolled retired assorted involution programmes and policies to boost agriculture and different sectors of the economy.
He congratulated the Governor of Taraba authorities for the affirmative inaugural of the acme which helium said is going to redefine the destiny of the authorities and the people.
Welcoming participants to the acme earlier, the Governor of Taraba State, Dr Agbu Kefas, visibly excited astir the summit, described it arsenic a airy to the state.
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He told radical consenting to bash business and concern successful the authorities to hasten up arsenic determination is bid and a conducive situation for business.
Speaking astatine the event, Dangote said overseas nonstop concern is good, “but overseas investors volition lone travel erstwhile they spot that section investors are thriving. The authorities indispensable promote home investments first.”
He gave assurance that the Dangote Groups would spouse with the authorities to put and interaction the lives of the people
On his part, Elumelu, laminitis of the Tony Elumelu Foundation and president of Transcorp Group, echoed Dangote’s position.
“We are acceptable to put successful Taraba done Transcorp and the Tony Elumelu Foundation. UBA volition besides proceed to grow its footprint and fiscal services crossed Africa,” helium announced.According to Elumelu, investing successful agriculture is captious to tackling hunger and strengthening nutrient security.
“Investment helps to make jobs, curb unemployment, amended security, and empower people,” helium stated.Also speaking, Niger State Governor, Umar Bago opined that Nigeria’ affluent cultivation resources are susceptible of taking its citizens retired of economical hardship.
He said Nigeria, with its fertile lands, had important untapped potential.
He, therefore, called connected the Federal Government and backstage assemblage individuals to harness the cultivation imaginable to eradicate poverty, declaring that with the year-round farming capacity, the state had nary excuse for economical hardship.
“All the factors of accumulation are inherent present successful Taraba State, and it was enumerated successful Aliko Dangote’s speech. We person land, water, sun, and people.“People successful Europe tin hardly workplace for 3 months successful a year, but we tin workplace 24/7, 365 days a year. It means we person nary concern successful poverty.”Bago, who represented the Nigeria’s Governors’ Forum who described himself arsenic the “Chief Farmer of Nigeria,” emphasised that each indispensable factors for cultivation production—land, water, sunlight, and manpower—are abundantly contiguous successful Taraba State.
The erstwhile Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar described the acme arsenic a cardinal to bringing economical transformation.
He urged the authorities to strive to instrumentality measures that volition code concern risks to alteration radical to put successful the state.
The Ooni besides charged the politician not to remainder connected his laurels.
“It’s commendable that you person brought large players here. Now, absorption connected gathering connected the strengths of Taraba. We request to spot existent investments successful agriculture, tourism, and different captious sectors,” helium said.The Sultan besides commended Governor Agbu Kefas for making Taraba comparatively peaceful implicit the past 2 years.
“Bringing the satellite to Taraba is nary tiny feat. The information gains made nether your medication indispensable beryllium protected to prolong capitalist confidence,” the Sultan remarked.Other Speakers astatine the acme see the Minister of Special Development Initiative Ghana, who represented the Ghanaian President.
The Chairman of the concern acme readying committee, Hon Ndudi Elumelu, expressed excitement implicit the calibre of personalities that attended the summit.
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Atiku meets Shettima, shares photos
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Kashim Shettima arrived successful Jalingo, Taraba state, to correspond President Bola Ahmed Tinubu astatine the Taraba International Investment Summit 2025.
Senator Shettima is attending the lawsuit successful the salient northeast authorities representing President Tinubu.
Among the high-profile attendees are erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar; Niger authorities Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago; among others.
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