The Special Adviser to the Lagos State governor on Overseas Affairs, Prof. Ademola Abass, yesterday said the state has continued to attract New Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) with seven investment proposals secured through its onestop- shop for investment, the Office of Overseas Affairs and Investment.
Abass, who made this known during a Business Review Meeting in Alausa, said this followed the reforms of the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode administration, stating that more investors were now showing interest in the state.
Abass said the approved investment proposals involved the construction of a medical park in the old School of Nursing on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi; total redevelopment of Oshodi within 12 months from now; construction of the 4th Mainland Bridge and the establishment of the Epe Car Crush. Others are the development of five cowries shores; supply of boats, weed harvesters and trash skinners; real estate for which 1000 hectres of land had been provided at the Lekki Free Trade Zone; and pencil manufacturing among others.
