Investment Expo: Tinubu Committed To Investor-friendly Reforms, Says Wike

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has reiterated the President Bola Tinubu administration’s committedness to creating a safe, business-friendly, and investment-ready superior metropolis that empowers citizens and drives sustainable growth.

Speaking astatine the 2nd variation of the Abuja Business and Investment Expo 2025, held astatine the recently refurbished Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre, Abuja, yesterday, Wike—represented by the Minister of State for FCT, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud—said the FCT Administration was implementing deliberate measures to pull investors done improved infrastructure, easiness of doing concern reforms, and transparent governance.

He noted that the administration’s precedence is to fortify Abuja’s economical basal by promoting backstage assemblage information successful housing, transportation, tourism, and technology-driven initiatives aimed astatine boosting the city’s planetary competitiveness.

Wike reaffirmed that the FCTA remained committed to advancing President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda by fostering inclusive maturation and sustainable development. According to him, public-private collaboration volition proceed to beryllium the instauration of the FCT’s semipermanent imaginativeness to go a exemplary of modern municipality improvement successful Africa.

In her invited address, the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Abuja Investments Company Limited (AICL), Ambassador Maureen Tamuno, said the acme served arsenic a strategical level to showcase concern opportunities successful the FCT portion fostering collaboration betwixt section and planetary investors.
Tamuno emphasized AICL’s committedness to promoting economical diversification and positioning Abuja arsenic a starring destination for concern and innovation. She stressed that public-private partnerships were captious to achieving sustainable growth, occupation creation, and infrastructure development, portion expressing gratitude to the FCT Minister for his accordant enactment successful gathering an investment-friendly superior city.

Delivering the keynote address, Founder and Chairman of Heirs Holdings and Transcorp Plc, Tony Elumelu, highlighted the captious relation of the backstage assemblage successful Africa’s economical transformation. He noted that the backstage assemblage contributes implicit 70 percent of Africa’s GDP and much than 80 percent of employment, underscoring its power successful driving productivity and resilience crossed the continent.

Elumelu, who besides chairs UBA Group and the Tony Elumelu Foundation, spoke connected the taxable “Empowering Sustainable Growth: Unlocking Potential successful Emerging Markets.” He urged African governments to make enabling environments that enactment entrepreneurship, innovation, and entree to capital, portion commending Wike for the FCT’s ongoing infrastructural advancements.

“Africa’s aboriginal lies successful the hands of its entrepreneurs,” Elumelu said. “When we empower our young people, enactment tiny and mean enterprises, and guarantee entree to electricity, education, and integer tools, we unlock the existent imaginable of our continent.”

The Abuja Business and Investment Expo 2025, convened by AICL, attracted implicit 1,000 high-level participants from 40 countries, including investors, policymakers, diplomats, financiers, and manufacture leaders.