Dubai Expo: Gombe Government Showcases Business potentials to Investors
The state’s Chairman of Investment and Property Development Company (GSIPDC), Dr. Umaru Kwairanga (Sarkin Gombe), has led the Gombe government delegation to the event of the ongoing World Expo, hosted in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Dr. Umaru who made an exquisite presentation for the Gombe government said that the presentation was done to showcase the state in terms of business opportunities to attract direct foreign investments from participating countries and multi-national corporate entities.
He outlined some of the competitive advantages of Gombe State being the commercial nerve center of the northeast region, such as a stretch of arable lands for agriculture, abundant mineral resources like uranium and gypsum, and tourism potential among others.
The presentation also conveyed to the audience, the investment opportunities at the ongoing Gombe Industrial Park project which will upon completion, produce more jobs, improve the tax base of the state and business retention as well as create more developmental projects across the state.
It could be recalled that Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya had while presenting the blueprint of the multi-billion naira project to President Muhammadu Buhari, explained that when completed and put in operation, it would facilitate the growth and development of small and medium businesses.
Governor Inuwa had maintained that companies that would operate at the industrial park will provide a more sustainable, productive, and growing economic environment in the state.
He had late last year visited the Nigerian Pavilion at the Dubai Expo where he interacted with the Nigerian officials as well as some prospective investors.
He stressed Gombe State’s Agri partnership, agro-allied processing, and marketing brought to the fore, especially with the establishment of the Muhammadu Buhari Industrial Park in Dadinkowa, located within the vicinity of the completed hydropower plant, which already has 40 megawatts of power.
The project has been described as a big attraction for investors and industrialists, as the zone boasts fertile agricultural land and other natural resources.
192 countries are currently participating in the Expo which began on 1st October 2021 and will end on 31st March 2022.
