Alli Remembered, As FG Seeks Investments On Infrastructure TWENTY-Five years after the death of former governor of old Bendel State, now Edo and Delta states, Professor Ambrose Alli, his friends and associates yesterday held a memorial lecture series in his honour where the Federal Government stressed the need for local and foreign investments in infrastructure to boost the nation’s economy. Minister of Works, Arch. Mike Onolememen, who was guest lecturer at the 2014 Professor Ambrose Alli Distinguished Annual Leadership Lecture Series, organised by the Visionary Leadership Services, in a key note lecture titled, “Leadership, Good Governance and Infrastructure Development in Nigeria,” said that good and sustainable infrastructure was necessary in the country to serve as a catalyst for economic growth and to creatively engage Nigerians to generate wealth for the country. He said that government alone could not meet the infrastructure needs of the nation’s economy, stressing that local and foreign investments were needed in the infrastructure sector to drive its growth. The minister recalled the state of the nation’s rail lines, power sector, sea and airports decades ago, noting that the federal government had focused its attention on infrastructural development in the last few years following the realisation that it holds the key to the actualisation of government’s transformation agenda and “Nigeria’s vision 20:2020, under the leadership of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. While calling for more private sector funds through Public Private Partnership (PPP) to complement the increasingly resources of the government, he disclosed that the federal government had created an enabling environment for investors, in form of reforms, which had accounted for the success recorded by some domestic and foreign investors.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 19:38:15 +0000
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