Foreign Direct Investment into Nigeria!
Foreign Business visitors, Migrant Communities storm Lagos for Ethnic Business Awards…high-networking for entrepreneurs, hold in Oriental Hotel, Lekki
* Event promises to celebrate and honor recognized Nigeria-based foreign investors
* Business moguls, corporate firms, the diplomatic coterie signify interest
* “The Ethnic Business Awards is aimed at recognizing and appreciating the outstanding contributions of foreign businesses, organisations, individuals and communities to corporate Nigeria”- Lanre Odukoya, project’s scribe
BY DEMOLA OLATOYE/BUSINESS REPORTER, LAGOS
A NEW HISTORY IS ABOUT TO BE MADE IN AFRICA’S MOST POPULOUS BLACK NATION IN THE WORLD, as The Ethnic Business Awards, a prominent body that has offered an unlimited platform to bringing Foreign Direct Investment into Nigeria has reached out to outstanding entrepreneurs, captains of industries willing to converge under a high-networking atmosphere and generate a huge employment opportunity for the Nigerian youths.
A
chapter and befitting accolades for foreign business personalities
and migrants community who have chosen to find a home in the
Nigeria’s stormy trading soil have finally birthed. The event is
billed to hold at the prestigious Oriental hotel, Lekki Lagos on
February 14th, 2020, the epoch making ceremony is no doubt, the most
appropriate way of celebrating the historic St. Valentine’s
Day.
Sprouting under the acronym of ‘The Ethnic Business
Awards’ (www.theethnicbusinessawards.com),
the awards project promises to celebrate and honor recognized
Nigeria-based foreign investors, dedicated entrepreneurs, business
moguls, corporate firms, the diplomatic coterie as well as the
migrants community.
In a press statement signed by Lanre
Odukoya who’s the project’s scribe, he stated that “The Ethnic
Business Awards’ is aimed at recognizing and appreciating the
outstanding contributions of foreign businesses, organisations,
individuals and communities to corporate Nigeria. This is like
thinking outside the box, the awards is designed to reward and
encourage innovations and excellence among Nigeria-based foreigners
in enterprise.”
Inspired by the growing population of
foreign investors, organisations, individuals and migrants
communities who have impressed with remarkable inputs into the growth
of the Nigerian economy, the Ethnic Business Awards [EBA] seeks to
reward the best practices in commerce, international diplomacy and
excellence across other industries.
Nigeria became Africa’s
largest economy for the second year in a row according to a
multinational professional services network, PricewaterhouseCoopers
(PwC), in 2019. Beyond doubts, this feat would have been impossible
without the faith reposed in her by men and women of other
nationalities who have defied doom prediction to swarm Nigeria to
grow her commerce.
The EBA (www.theethnicbusinessawards.com)
pays very special attention to promising and established foreign
companies, communities, organisations and individuals of sterling
qualities all of whom will be identified and grouped into different
categories following a public opinion poll and wide consultations
with some of the industry’s finest experts.
Though debuting tad
late, the organizers, Pun Communications’ recognition of this very
vital segment of the nation’s economy will boost the morale of the
recipients of the honor and intending foreign investors, groups or
individuals to join the Africa’s largest economy.
The grand
celebration of the winners and presentation of the awards is
scheduled to hold on February 14, 2020 at the Oriental Hotel,
Victoria Island, Lagos.
