VP Shettima woos foreign investors in UN Food summit

<h2></h2>, <p>VP noted that the combination of Nigeria’s young, energetic population and the agenda of the new administration, placed the country far ahead of others in the region.</p>, <span>Vp Shettima at the UN food summit (Credit: NAN)</span>, <h2>Vice President Kashim Shettima has urged foreign investors to take advantage of the opportunities in Nigeria as the country is ready for business.</h2>, <p>Mr Olusola Abiola, Director, Information, Office of the Vice President, in a statement, said Shettima made the call in his remarks at a side event of the ongoing UN Food Systems Summit.</p>, <p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the theme of the summit is, “Scaling up of multi-stakeholder collaboration and investments in the implementation of the food systems pathways in Nigeria.”</p>, <p>The vice president noted that the combination of Nigeria’s young, energetic population and the agenda of the new administration, placed the country far ahead of others in the region.</p>, <p>” We have the capacity of transforming the demographic bulge into demographic dividends or it will be the demographic disaster that will consume all of us.</p>, <p>“Nigeria will surpass the United States as the third most populous nation on earth and the population is young. The median age is 19.”</p>, <p>“With determined leadership and the support of the global community, we believe, as eternal optimists do, that there is hope in the horizon,” the VP added.</p>, <p>Shettima also expressed hope that the expected transformation could take place on the back of what he described as “building blocks that already exists in Nigeria.</p>, <p>“They include government’s recent declaration of a State of Emergency on Food Security, moving food and water to the purview of National Security Council, the country’s renewed commitment to food and nutrition since the Nutrition Conference of 2022.</p>, <p>On improving collaboration between government and the private sector, Shettima said focusing on agribusiness and the understanding that investmen