Africa's youngest billionaire, Ashish Thakkar, said on Monday in Abuja that Nigeria remained a land of opportunities for investors despite negative stories about it.
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Thakkar, President of Mara Group, stated this in an interview with State House Correspondents after holding a closed door meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa.
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The Uganda-born billionaire said that the reality and the potentials in Nigeria were quite different from the negative report of the country in the international media.
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"There is a huge difference between perception and reality.
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"I think the perception happened to be negative today but it is a very unfortunate case because when we come here, what we see and what we experience show that Nigeria is a very different place.
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"Nigeria is going through transformation and I think Africa as a whole, we are going through transformation and I think one thing as African is that we are 54 countries and we generalise in our assessments.
That is just the basic truth. That is the main reason why we've got people from all over the world in Nigeria. They wanna make money.