Lagos genuine model for developing businesses in Nigeria – FG

The Federal Government on Thursday portrayed Lagos State as a genuine model of the vision of enhancing the simplicity of working together and transforming Nigeria into one of the least demanding and most alluring spots for financial specialists on the planet. 

Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Okechukwu Enelamah, who expressed this in Lagos after a meeting with Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, said the State, as the business capital of the nation, remains in a vantage position to drive the objective of government to enhance World Bank positioning of Nigeria on the simplicity of working together.

Talking with Government House journalists after the meeting, Enelemah said both the Federal Government and the State Government were ready to work together on key territories to accomplish the general objective of developing the economy.

He stated: "We fundamentally have been looking at making empowering condition for speculations and simplicity of working together and the region where we have solid meeting between Lagos State and the Federal Government.

"Governor Ambode and I have been talking about how to team up firmly to make Lagos State a genuine good example in accordance with our vision of making Nigeria one of the simplest and most appealing spots to work together and you will concur with me that there is no preferable place to begin once again Lagos State, especially when you have a Governor who is focused on it and as he puts it to us, it resembles lecturing the changed over.

"Along these lines, what we have done today is to concur on modalities on cooperating to accomplish the objectives that we have set for ourselves both in simplicity of working together positioning of the World Bank, as far as a portion of the zones where we realise that we ought to enhance like tourism for example, by ensuring that individuals who need to visit Nigeria come in consistently; as far as making it simple for individuals in Lagos State who are, as the Governor puts it, paying the expenses by improving life less demanding and for them."

Giving subtle elements, the Minister said his office would work together with the Office of Transformation under the Governor's office, and in addition the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, to accomplish the general goals.

He additionally guaranteed that the Federal Government would not dither to force import limitations where important to maintain a strategic distance from Nigeria from being a dumping ground, while purposeful endeavours would be set up to check negative exchange hones, particularly for the advantage of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

Likewise speaking, Governor Ambode reviewed that over the most recent couple of months, the State Government had been drawing in the business group on simplicity of working together, saying that the meeting with authorities of the Federal Government was in a state of harmony with the vision of his administration to accomplish the absolute best in driving speculation.

"What has been going on over the most recent two years is that on our part, we have attempted however much as could reasonably be expected to give an empowering domain to businesses to flourish in Lagos yet again the records that demonstrate that we are enhancing simplicity of working together is not by any stretch of the imagination looking too great and we accept firmly that if 70 for each penny of businesses or these markers are really originating from Lagos State, there is a requirement for us to rapidly make a union between the endeavours of the Federal Government and the State Government to ensure that we enhance the business condition and that is the thing that we have been examining over the most recent couple of weeks and additionally today.

"Pushing ahead, we have likewise connected with the workplace of the Vice President to see that there is a merging in every one of our endeavours to ensure that if conceivable, individuals ought to come to Lagos and begin their business that day.

"We need a circumstance whereby development allow is given to individuals inside the most limited conceivable time; we need to guarantee that individuals who pay their duties really have the advantage of what they are paying for and in doing that, in the event that we get in ideal in Lagos, it is certain that Nigeria has taken care of business and that is the reason we are meeting," Governor Ambode said.