Media Should Focus More On Nigeria’s Potential To Attract Foreign Investment – Financial Expert

By Ayodele Oni

A financial expert, Akindele Omole has tasked the media to expose Nigeria’s untapped resources to the outside world.

He said the media should focus on promoting the positive potentialities of the of the country

to attract foreign and local investors to inject funds in different sectors of the nation’s economy.

Omole, who spoke in Akure on Sunday while commenting on the way forward in tackling the current socio-economic challenges in the country, added that there is the need for the media to focus more attention in the area rather than insecurity.

The chartered accountant pointed out that some countries in the continent have attained greatness through positive projection of their potentials to the outside world.

Omole, who is the Patron of Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists(NUJ), Ondo State called for collaboration between the government the media in the country to project policies being rolled out by government for the resuscitation of the economy.

“The media in our country have a lot to do in promoting the potentials of our country which are capable of attracting investors from within and outside the country.

“We have a lot of untapped natural resources which are enough to turn our nation’s economy around if explored.

“Like in Ondo State, we have the longest coastal line which if appropriately explored could attract a lot of funds to the state and the country through tourism.

“The deep seaport, which has been approved by the Federal Government, is another money-spinning investment that the state government could enter into partnership with both foreign and local investors to kickstart it.

“It has been established that the bitumen is also there which has not been touched.

“We need to reel out these potentials to the world for interested investors to come and invest, which will in no little means turn around the lives of the people in the host communities, the state and the nation at large.

“But I must state unequivocally that you journalists have a lot of role to play in rescuing  the nation’s economy from precipice.”