The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, on Monday in Benin expressed optimism that Nigeria will overcome its current economic and security challenges. Laing gave the assurance while delivering a speech at a state dinner organised in her honour.<\/p>\n
According to her, \u201cI am very confident that Nigeria will get through this difficult period, the economy is going through a challenging period of insecurity.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am a Nigeria optimist and I think Edo will lead the way in taking Nigeria through to where it should be. You have a governor that makes stuff happens and I am very impressive. I like the way he put education together and Information and Communications Technology (ICT), honestly you have incredible talents in Edo,\u201d she said<\/p>\n
In his remarks, Gov. Godwin Obaseki thanked the British High Commissioner to Nigeria for the enormous support the state has enjoyed in the last few years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to thank you for quite a lot of support that you\u2019ve given us in last few years, particularly in the area of forestry and technology. We\u2019ve gotten grants to support our initiatives and those grants have gone a long way to helping us stabilize and bring resources, particularly the technical assistance\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we commence on our 30-years developmental plan, we expect to step up relations with countries like yours, we are very keen to deepening our relationship, particularly in the area of technical education, we are very keen in working with you as a technology country in the world to help us strengthen our strategy to become Nigeria\u2019s Silicon Valley\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to thank you for the support we received from you in our fight against human trafficking and irregular migration. We made quite a bit of success before COVID-19 outbreak created another impetus for people to migrate\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn our new conversations about migration, we\u2019re insisting that why we do everything to stop human trafficking and irregular migration, we must now collaborate and open doors for regular migration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, on Monday in Benin expressed optimism that Nigeria will overcome its current economic and security challenges. Laing gave the assurance while delivering a speech at a state dinner organised in her honour. According to her, \u201cI am very confident that Nigeria will get through this difficult period, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"yoast_head":"\n