Nigeria: Fidelity Bank, Doctors Embark On $10 Million Hospital Project

26 March 2007

Lagos — Efforts of the Federal Government and the organized private sector to encourage Nigerian professionals in the diaspora to invest at home seem to be yielding fruits as a team of Nigerian doctors based in the United States of America at the weekend signed an accord with Fidelity Bank Plc to build a $10million [N1.27BN] hospital project in Lagos or Port Harcourt.

According to information from the bank the team of four doctors are joining forces to build a modern cardiological centre to be called the African Heart Hospital (AHH), in what promises to be a major diaspora investment.

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