Lagos is investors’ delight, Sanwo-Olu says at Harvard

Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has described the state as an investors’ delight, where people can come with nothing and become influential. With a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $259 billion, 25 million population, four seaports and friendly government policies, Lagos State is an investor’s delight, he said.
  
“Lagos is a place where people come in without anything and become somebody. We are a business and commercial powerhouse,” he said on Wednesday.  It was another sales drive for the ‘State of Aquatic Splendour’ at Harvard Business School, where the governor spoke on ‘Building the Future: Lagos State Infrastructure-led Transformation’. He was a guest in Professor Hakeem Belo-Osagie’s course, ‘Understanding Africa: Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent’.
  
Belo-Osagie is a Nigerian investment banker and businessman. For the governor, it was “an opportunity to share Lagos State’s bold vision and the tangible strides we are making in transportation, housing, innovation and industrial growth”

The students applauded as Sanwo-Olu spoke on the Blue Line, Africa’s first intra-city rail line, which has moved over two million passengers, an average of 42,000 commuters daily. The Red Line is also up and running, he said. 
  
“We are building a new airport on the Lekki-Epe Expressway, and work is set to begin on the Green Line, which will connect that part of the state to Lagos Island,” he said.