Segun James
President Muhammadu Buhari; Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu; former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu; and the former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, will be among the dignitaries that will speak at Ehingbeti, the Lagos Economic Summit, which will begin tomorrow.
Other notable business leaders and political figures across the globe will also at the summit join the private sector in setting agenda for Lagos State towards the next decade.
According to a statement issued by the Lagos State government, the summit is living-up to its reputation as Africa’s most practical and result-oriented private sector-led forum for socio-economic and infrastructural development, with the quality of speakers confirmed to mount the podium at the sessions
What:
8th Lagos Economic Summit: discussing issues critical to development of the mega city
Who:
African Development Bank President Akinwumi. A. Adesina and other high-level representatives of the private sector and government
When:
Ehingbeti will drive good policy environment to attract investors to Lagos -.
He noted that excellent coordination of private-public relationship can signal stability to investors.
Speaking yesterday during an interactive session with journalists held via a virtual platform to discuss the significance and contributions of the private sector-led participatory forum, Cardoso said Ehingbeti is an ingenuous socio-economic apparatus that has contributed significantly to the development of Lagos State in the last 20 years.
“Ehingbeti is not a talk-shop where people gather to say nice things to themselves and depart. It is a platform for discussion of very serious issues about the socio-economic and infrastructural development of Lagos State. In fact, call it the planning board for gradual evolution of Lagos State into the desired shape and standard because deliberations at Ehingbeti feed into the Lagos Master Plan and implementations are monitored by multiple stakeholders”, he expla
Ehingbeti, the Lagos Economic Summit scheduled to hold from next Tuesday to Thursday, is living-up to its repute as Africa’s most practical and result-oriented private sector-led forum for socio-economic and infrastructural development, with the quality of speakers confirmed to discuss at the virtual summit.
He described the summit as a strategic initiative and planning tool that has significantly driven the development of Lagos State.
“Think of the Lagos-Ibadan megalopolis, develop in Ogere a beautiful city; go to Abeokuta to develop a beautiful city. People can wake up and in 45 minutes they are in their offices in Victoria Island and in the evening, they go back to Ibadan, Ogere, and Abeokuta.
“This is a megalopolis and you think of the Boston-Houston corridor. But, this needs political will to collaborate with the adjourning states,” Utomi explained.
He said the idea of Ehingbeti came from the need to provide infrastructure and social services to the citizenry after the return of civil rule in 1999.