TICAD 7: Count your blessings; name them one by one – Femi Adesina vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Today is the last dance of the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development , and our fifth day in Yokohama, Japan.A bouquet of goodies is being unfolded for the African continent, aftermath of the conference, but as a participant-observer, what are the low hanging fruits Nigeria can pluck immediately? That is why I want to count our blessings, and name them one by one.
The purpose was to make the princely sum of 50 million euro available to Nigeria, to tackle the human misery brought on the North-East by Boko Haram insurgents. It brings the amount advanced to Nigeria by EU between 2014 and 2020 to 562 million euros. Still naming the blessings one by one, three unique bilateral meetings held today, which brought good tidings to Nigeria.
Toyota Tsusho is part of the giant Toyota conglomerate. Its President/CEO, Ichiro Kashitani, led a team to meet the Nigerian leader. Their interest? Energy. Healthcare. Automobiles. They are particularly planning a world class advanced medical diagnostics centre, in collaboration with Siemens of Germany. With that, Kashitani said, Nigerians need not seek cutting-edge medical diagnosis outside the country again.
In such conferences, there are usually intangible gains, which you cannot immediately quantify in terms of cash, but which would eventually redound in blessings for the country. Such was what happened when South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, came to see our President. He laid a foundation for crucial talks on the killing of Nigerians in his country, when our President visits South Africa in October. Like they say, it is better to jaw-jaw than to war-war.
During the conference, the Nigerian leader also had a platform to unfold potential areas of investments in his country. These he gave as power and renewable energy, petrochemicals and gas, maritime , automobiles, mining, agribusiness, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, ICT, and railways. No wonder there are already indications of interest.
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