Part Two: Why Foreign Investors Shun Nigeria’s Solid Minerals

Why Foreign Investors Shun Nigeria’s Solid Minerals

If You Are Willing to Invest, We Are Willing and Available to Manage the Investments and Manage the Process - Run the Affairs.  Part Two

Please read this story in conjunction with the next story "Nigeria Can Salvage 2.4m Out-of-school Children, Says UNESCO." Reason being that, if we put our house in order and create the right incentives - security, financing, infrastructural facilities - for purposeful exploration/exploitation activities, we will not only curtail the spiraling unemployment rate, but will make life better for Nigerians via paid employment generated in the investment process.  We concentrate so much on oil and gas, leaving the Solid Minerals sector to poachers. We can do better. Let's invest. We are ready to come home, roll up our sleeves and hit the ground running for an aggressive investment drive in this sector. We have the resources that, if adequately explored, would alleviate considerably, the state of hopelessness in Nigeria, especially regions in the northern part of the country where we currently have varieties of these untapped natural resources. If anyone is reading this and willing to invest, we are willing to commit our brain power, time, and energy to make the investments worthwhile to all the stakeholders – the investors, governments, local communities, and management staffs. This is not a business solicitation; it is a plan of action – a commitment towards transforming Nigeria for good. 

Side Note:
At the time we wrote part one, asking that you partner with us to make the best out of our natural resources, we didn't know that The Guardian Newspaper was writing a story on the problems in the industry. That re-enforces our credibility as well as the importance of the sector in the national economy. It reinforces our motivations and what we set out to accomplish - making education available to every Nigerian and making life worth living through sustainable employment provision via purposeful investment in the natural mineral resources sector. So, seeing this story and its relevance to the content of our story on "Let's Talk Investment", we decided to make it the Part Two, as a continuation of the same process.