The new Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, NIPC, Aisha Rimi on Monday, October 16, assumed office in Abuja.
Rimi has pledged to advance Nigeria’s economy through strategic investment promotion.
It will be recalled that on Friday, October 13, President Bola Tinubu approved the appointment of a new lineup of leadership for 12 agencies and parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment.
According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, the move is in line with President Tinubu’s resolve to base Nigeria’s economic revival on the foundation of trade expansion through small, medium, and large-scale industry facilitation in the country.
Rimi also pledged to reposition the NIPC to attract new routes of foreign investments into Nigeria to shore up the dwindling revenue of the government and the much-needed jobs.
“First, I am grateful to Mr President for this opportunity because there are over 100 million persons who could be doing this job.
“So I don’t take it lightly and I don’t take it for granted.
“It is a task I don’t take lightly because NIPC is the gateway to Nigeria and without a functional, operational, and efficient NIPC, investment will just amount to nothing.
“We are not just here to promote but also to facilitate and if we succeed, Nigeria will succeed. I am too old to Japa and I can’t go anywhere,” the NIPC boss said.
Rimi is taking over from Hajja Wakil who had served in an acting capacity.
