Nigeria Is Conducive For Investments - Africa’s Youngest Billionaire

[Shola Sholaz]

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.

[Folami David]

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.