The Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) has said that Nigeria would negotiate future international investment agreements using a set of parameters that would ensure a balance between investors’ interests and the developmental objectives of the country.
Executive secretary/CEO of the Commission, Ms Yewande Sadiku, made this remark as lead speaker at the Symposium on International Investment Law and Practice in Honour of Late Professor Michael Ayo Ajomo which held at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS), University of Lagos.
In her presentation titled: ‘Contemporary Trends in Investment Law and Policy – Lessons for Nigeria,’ she observed , “It is true that Nigeria has challenges, but when we are going into a negotiation that is not the toga that we wear, the toga that we wear is the toga of a country that is the 26th largest economy in the world and is estimated by 2050 to be the 14th largest; the toga of a country that is the…
