Badagry Convention and Visitors Agency (BCV Agency), through the Badagry Economic Summit, targets to open to the world the investment opportunities that abound in Badagry.
The summit will also initiate deliberations on how best to harness and explore the investment potential around Badagry economy.
The economic summit, with the theme “Unleashing Investment Opportunities around Historic and Coastal Zones of Epe and Badagry,” holds March 23-24 in Lagos.
BCV Agency was formally established in August 2016 to market Badagry as a destination, with the ultimate aim of bringing economic growth to the region and its environs.
Temidayo Hephzibah, director, marketing and administration, BCV Agency, stated this while briefing journalists on the agency’s preparedness.
He said the Badagry Economic Summit, a bi-annual conference, is designed to bring together corporate organisations and individuals to share ideas about opportunities in Badagry and how best to harness them.
“The main objective of the summit is to provide direction into the reality of making Badagry an international market hub for investment and leisure activities. The summit will also bring together regional and international industry experts and investors to discuss investments opportunities around Badagry and other coastal neighbourhoods of Lagos State, such as Epe axis,” Hephzibah said.
He added that Epe became part of the maiden edition of the summit because of its similarity with Badagry in terms of history, location and resources.
“Deep seaport investment naturally attracts a huge number of business activities, ranging from logistic park operations, bonded terminals, and so forth. This is the best time every maritime and logistics operator in West Africa should position themselves to be key players in what is to be Africa’s largest seaport in Badagry,” he said.
Ashamu Sewanu Fadipe, chief executive, Badagry Convention and Visitors Bureau, said that top tourism experts and investors were being mobilised for the summit to explore investment opportunities in the area.
Fadipe said that the summit would showcase the abundant investment opportunities in Badagry so as to lure investors and tourists to the area.
“There is no doubt that investment opportunities abound in Badagry. We have all it takes for investors to invest in. The community is blessed with rich historical and cultural heritage, crude oil, serene beaches, coconut plantation, seaport and massive land for development,” he said.
“If all these potentials are properly utilised, it will boost the economy of Badagry and increase the Internal Generated Revenue (IGR) of Lagos State,” he said.
Fadipe added that at a time like this when all focus is on economic diversification with focus on tourism, the Federal Government would be glad to see leadership direction that harnesses tourism economic potentials in Badagry as a model to replicate tourism investment in other parts of the country.
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