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How Buhari Made Nigeria Top 10 Most Improved World Economies; Says Lai Mohammed – As Nigerians Reacts

The Federal Government has said the Presidential implementation of over 150 Enabling Business Environment Council, PEBEC, reforms was responsible for moving Nigeria up 39 places on the World Bank Doing Business Index since 2016.

It also said the implementation made it possible for Nigeria, being twice named as one of the top 10 most improved economies in the world over the last three years, to be one of only two African countries to make this highly-prestigious list in 2019.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this during a visit to the IshK Tolaram Foundation in Lagos, yesterday, said: “To understand the significance of Nigeria moving up in the World Bank Doing Business Index, we have to recall that between 2007 and 2015, Nigeria lost 64 places in the World Bank ease of doing business ranking.”

He said as a result of the reforms, the 2018 Sub-national Doing Business report on Nigeria recorded unprecedented improvement, adding that the World Economic Forum, WEF, in its 2018 Global Competitive Report, recognised Nigeria’s business environment as one of the most entrepreneurial in the world, and highlighted Nigeria’s improved competitiveness in enabling business environment.

He also said the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020, CAMA 2020, signed by President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s most significant business legislation in three decades, introduced at least 15 new provisions that promoted ease of doing business and reduce regulatory hurdles in Nigeria.

Lai Mohammed

The minister said PEBEC also collaborated with the National Assembly on the Secured Transaction in Movable Asset Act, STMA, 2017 and the Credit Reporting Act, 2017, which provides a legal framework for collateralization of moveable assets with the creation of the National Collateral Registry, while CRA 2017 enhances credit reporting in Nigeria.

“The creation of a National Collateral Registry, NCR, of movable assets by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, with the support of the International Financial Corporation , IFC, in May 2016 ensures that functional equivalents of collaterals can be registered. To date, over N1 trillion assets have been uploaded on the Registry,” he said.

Other reforms listed by the minister include visa on arrival for business people, reduction in the time it takes to register a company at the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, through the Company Registration Portal, CRP, from about two weeks to just a few days and the introduction of the electronic filing and payment of federal taxes.

Mohammed commended the IshK Tolaram Foundation for its programmes in Nigeria, especially in the areas of healthcare, entrepreneurial and vocational training, saying the artificial limbs provided free of charge had inspired hope for the beneficiaries.

He said: “I am reliably informed that the Foundation, through its IshK Limb Centres in Lagos and Port Harcourt, and mobile camps, has provided more than 19,000 free prosthetic limbs.

“I am also aware that 242 students have graduated from the Foundation’s vocational skills training programme, while 157 have started earning their livelihood through jobs and start-ups. This is quite impressive  and I congratulate the IshK Foundation for this feat.’’

The Programme Director of ISHK Foundation, Ms. Neha Mehra, who conducted the minister round the Lagos centre, said the foundation, which is funded with 25 per cent of the profit from the Tolaram Group, was set up as the next step in a 100-year history of philanthropy at Tolaram.

She said the Foundation partners with churches, mosques, hospitals and NGOs to identify and support people requiring artificial limbs free of charge.

Some of the beneficiaries of the Foundation’s activities were on hand to brief the minister on how the quality of their lives had been enhanced by such activities.

Nigerias Reacts

Pastor Peace  Child:
With the increase in debt.May God reward you with what you did to Nigerians

Nse Udo:
This Old man must work on his brain, first before , coming up with any discussion or figures. An expired brain doesn’t hold forth any good thinking.

Abbey Stepho:
I beg you please, know the kind of names you give to your children. Because the name you give your child determines who they become.

Agu Fidelis :
If as a minister, and you are telling us how your government has made Nigeria to become one of the top 10 most improved world economies. Why then is the same country (Nigeria) still remains the center of poverty in the world?   Does it means that the world and Nigerians has not been able to notify exactly what you are saying right there?

Abdul Usman:
These people in government think that their money in banks are the indices for per capita income in Nigeria and indicators of economic growth.
Nigerians are in extreme poverty u are insulting them!

Lawal Azeez Olalekan:
Sometimes I wonder if all they says about this man is true because no sane man will be saying all such about this collapsing Nation considering the situation on ground. May Allah swt touch your heart though.

Kuffy Sammie:
Sir, please you’re a liar, that’s why your parent named you LIE MOHAMMED

Omooba Julius Adenji:
Indeed, old Age do affect human reasoning….

Ur government improved economies with High cost of things…. No light to survive business in the country… High profile debt for infrastructure development in the country…
Red Account in the world Bank…ASSU strike…. #300 per liters… High cost of living… Insecurity in the country…

I just pray that another party will take over… So has to expose Ur stomach infrastructure projects in the past years.

Alika Betterland kenebi
And borrowed approximately 46trillions and made Nigeria the poverty capital, una try make God punish una generations unborn the way you impoverished Nigeria.

Victor Anorue:
If I ever become a president, my first ever project is to probe both past served and present serving politicians at every level of the government sector, and make sure anyone found guilty of looting and corruption will have all his properties willed to the government and be remanded in a correctional center for the number of years according to the person’s rate of political crime… Civil servants are not left aside…

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