The president, in a congratulatory message by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, on Saturday in Abuja extolled the economist, banker and administrator for his unique influence on Nigeria’s economic growth.
Browsing: Shamsudeen Usman
The two-day business conference also recently secured the endorsement of the Federal Government of Nigeria with a collaboration to partner and host the event.
The minister said that the country needed to invest an average of $25
billion (N4 trillion) per annum from 2014 to 2018 on infrastructure,
compared with $10 billion (N1.6 trillion) the government currently
spent
“Most of the deliberation meeting of the International Investors Council that has just concluded last week and the report from the index say from agriculture and all indicators are moving positively towards our target of 2020
Usman gave the example of the western rail corridor from Lagos to Kano and the intra-city train in Lagos, Kaduna and Kano, which, he said, were now fully operational
Usman further stated that the Phase 1 of the programme, which was implemented under the 9th EDF in the afore mentioned focal states, ended in June 2011, with a total project cost of 120 million Euros