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Ugwuanyi honoured in Dublin, seeks foreign investment

By Kodilinye Obiagwu, South East Bureau Chief
01 February 2016   |   12:25 am
LOOKING for ways to shore up the dwindling revenue base of Enugu State occasioned by the drop in revenue from oil, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has further opened the doors to foreign and local investors, inviting them to take advantage of the conducive environment of the state and invest. During a three-day working visit to Dublin, Ireland,…

Enugu State goveror, Ugwuanyi

LOOKING for ways to shore up the dwindling revenue base of Enugu State occasioned by the drop in revenue from oil, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has further opened the doors to foreign and local investors, inviting them to take advantage of the conducive environment of the state and invest.

During a three-day working visit to Dublin, Ireland, where he was honoured for his leadership qualities as governor and for his tenure as chairman of House Committee on Marine and Transport, Ugwuanyi told a gathering of diplomats, officials of the Irish government and members of the Nigerian community in Dublin that his 11-man delegation accompanied him specifically for investment drive in view of the “scary situation in the global oil market, which has thrown the nation’s economy off balance.”
 
In a statement signed by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Uwakwe Abugu, honoured alongside the governor, who dedicated the awards to the people of Enugu whom he called the “true heroes of democracy,” were a female Irish professor and women rights activist, Fionnuala Waldron, former Charge d’Affaires of Nigerian Embassy in Ireland and former Nigerian ambassador, Benedict Onochie Amobi, among several others. 

Ahead of the event organized by Metro Eireann, Ireland’s first multicultural newspaper, the state delegation had joined scores of investors gathered at Dublin City’s Westin Hotels to dialogue in a mini investment summit.

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