Nigeria: FCT to Partner With Turkish Investors
The Minister, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed has said that the FCT will partner with Turkish investors interested in taking advantage of its one-stop investment shop.
Mohammed stated this in Abuja yesterday while declaring open the corporate office of the Association of Investors and Businessmen of Turkey and Nigeria (AIBTN) in Abuja yesterday.
The minister added that Nigeria had always had good relations with Turkey, saying that there had been a marked improvement in the number of Turkish investors coming into Nigeria.
He said that the FCT was willing to assist Turkish investors who had expressed interest in building amusement parks, hotels and shopping malls.
Responding in his speech, the Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Ali Rifat Koksal, said that Turkey is an emerging economy with a global reach and would continue to invest in Nigeria. Koksal said that AIBTN would improve trade relations with Nigeria which grew by 15 per cent in volume in 2011 compared to 2010.
He called on Nigerian investors to come to Turkey in view of its astronomical growth in recent times. Turkey is the 16th largest economy in the world and the sixth in Europe with a construction sector that is only second biggest to China's in the world.
Extending invitation to Nigerian businessmen, the Secretary-General of AIBTN, Mr. Yavuz Zemheri, said the association was established to foster bilateral relations between the two nations and was opened to persons of moral values and integrity.
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