Nigeria Not utilising its Investment opportunities
Many Nigerians are not keying in on emerging investments opportunities in critical areas like agroallied processing and agricultural products storage, education and human capital development and electronic payment platforms. Meanwhile these sectors represents new investment frontiers aided by growth in technology, government’s keen interest to drive growth in their value chains, relative ease of securing private capital and a yawning supply gap. These are the views of experts who made presentations at the Vantage Forum 2017, an annual entrepreneurship advancement initiative organised by the Elevation Church in Lagos on January 26. With unemployment rate at about 13 percent and underemployment rate of 19 percent, for over 61million Nigerians without gainful employment, an ability to scan the environment for opportunities and sharpen their entrepreneurial skills are now winning skills. Doyin Salami, economist and faculty member at the Lagos Business School in his lead pres...