Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has predicted that the state would become Africa’s model mega city by 2015.
According to him, more private sector investments were being attracted to the acclaimed Centre of Excellence, both internationally and locally to create jobs and increase productivity.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Jamiu Dosunmu, in a statement on Tuesday, said the state Governor, Babatunde Fashola disclosed this during the celebration of the Lagos State Day at the just concluded International Trade Fair.
The statement quoted Fashola as saying that the mega city title of the state placed on it the responsibility of developing strategies that would help to boost the nation’s economy.
Fashola, who described the theme of the fair ─ Promoting the Nigerian Economy as a Preferred Investment Destination ─ as apt, added that more investment influx into the state would reduce unemployment.
The governor, who was represented at the event by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr. Wale Raji, said, “Although the state government has developmental business plans in place, massive business investment is still key to keeping the leading role of the state as the economic hub of the country and Africa.
“It is the desire of the state government to continue to make life meaningful for investors and formulate policies that will make business thrives.”
On his part, the President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Alhaji Remi Bello, commended the efforts of the government in making the deadly Ebola Virus a history in the state.
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