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Bayelsa safe for investments, Gov. Diri assures Nigerian diaspora in US
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has restated that the State is ready and safe to attract Foreign Direct Investments (FDI).
Governor Diri, who is leading a team to the United States of America for both trade and cultural events in the leading commercial cities of New York and New Jersey, said Bayelsa State is rich beyond oil and gas resources and that his government is desirous to tap the huge agriculture potential of the State.
The Governor who was addressing Nigerians in Diaspora at a dinner hosted in his honour by the Consul-General, Amb. Lot Egopija and the Nigeria’s Permanent Representatives to the United Nations, Amb. (Prof.) Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, at the Nigerian Consulate, New York, said Bayelsa International Airport, which has since commenced commercial operations to Lagos and Abuja, remains very strategic to the investments drive.
