Osinbajo wants more Nigerians to benefit from Germany

For Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, improving Nigeria and Nigerians are his biggest worries. He believes that if the per capital income of Nigerians soar then there will be more opportunities, more job creation and more prosperity, for these reasons, he takes any opportunity available to promote his countrymen.

This week at the 8th German-Nigerian Business Forum he told our German counterparts to give more Nigerians opportunity to benefit from the mutual relationship that exists between both countries.

Pitching his country to Germans he explained that Nigerians have the population, technical know-how, expertise and brilliance to execute anything. He noted that Nigeria also has the resources to make it happen.

As they listened to him, they began to crunch up the numbers. He assured them that he is doing all within his powers to ensure that the youths take their place in governance, business and in whatever carriers they choose.

He noted again that he is the number one individual against police brutality and citizen oppression and that he was going to engage with the youths at all levels to ensure that public trust is restored. He told investors that Nigerian youths are one of the most hardworking and committed in the world.

These assurances gave the Germans at the meeting a boost. They immediately swung into action, looking that the possibilities ahead and when and where they want to invest in Nigeria.

At the meeting were Nigeria’s Ambassador to Germany, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar; Germany’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Birgitt Ory; the CEO of Afrika-Verein, Christoph Kannengiesser, among others.

Speaking specifically about the German-Nigerian business cooperation, the Vice President said “there are several reasons why Nigeria and Germany’s economic relationship is an important and natural one.”

Here are some of the things he said. “With a population of nearly 200 million people and as the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria is a natural partner of Germany, which is also the largest economy in the European Union and also its most populous country.  Both countries have a shared experience of paving the way in their respective continents and serve as strategic entry points for investors across industries,” he added.

He explained that “cooperation between our countries and between sectors, is now more important than ever and this forum is an essential platform for deliberating on the mutually beneficial ways that we can achieve our shared objectives as nations. And we already have an excellent example the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI), a power infrastructure upgrade and modernisation programme, agreed to by the Nigerian government and Siemens AG of Germany, with the support of the German Government.”

 

“Under the initiative, the Nigerian government will on behalf of the other shareholders in the DisCos invest in infrastructure upgrades in the form of improved payment systems, distribution substations, transformers, protection devices, smart meters, transmission lines, etc.,” the VP added.

 

Stating the focus of government’s interventions aimed at addressing the fallouts of the pandemic, Osinbajo said the priorities we, as a government, have set for ourselves are centered around nine inter-related and inter-connected areas, which are”:  Stabilizing the economy; Achieving agriculture and food security; Attaining energy sufficiency especially in power and petroleum products; Improving transportation and other infrastructure; Driving industrialization with a special focus on SMEs; Expanding access to quality education, affordable healthcare and productivity of Nigerians; Enhancing social inclusion by scaling up social investments; Building a system to fight corruption, improve governance and Strengthen national security.

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