Nigerian government doing all it can to address security challenge-Jonathan

Goodluck Jonathan

Nigerian government doing all it can to address security challenge-Jonathan
Lawan Hamidu, Abuja

Nigerian Government says it is taking firm steps to address the security challenges facing the country.

President Goodluck Jonathan, while declaring open the 17th National Economic Summit reiterates government stand to fight crimes and rid the country of terrorism.

While appealing to International Investors to see Nigeria as partner, President Jonathan said government was putting appropriate legislation to guarantee and protect investment.

Nigeria, new investor’s haven

The Nigerian Economy recorded an average GDP growth rate of 7.85 per cent in 2010 and 7.72 per cent in the second quarter of 2011.

“With this development, Nigeria is at a point in its history where it should attract more global investors. There is now a global understanding that Africa and Nigeria in particular is the new investor haven,” the president noted.

The summit group’s contributions

Earlier, the Chairman of the Summit Group Mr Fuluso Phillips, said in the last 17 years of existence, the summit had contributed positively to the economic and socio-political development of the nation.

He pointed out that the group had contributed to the development of Nigeria by influencing policies that have been of great impact to the society and encouraged those that relate with the NES to revisit the policies, recommendations, suggestions, models and demands that were recorded as the outcome of the deliberations of the summit over the years.

Nigeria Economic Summit is an annual meeting of experts to deliberate and contribute to the management of the country’s economy.

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