Nigeria: It's Not Just About Growth, It's About the Right Kind of Growth

opinion

Around this time every year, I often get asked the same question: Isn't the World Economic Forum just one big talking shop? It's a fair one. Once every twelve months, leaders from politics, business and civil society gather in a given city, congesting the roads and raising CO2 levels with all their talk.

This year, it is the turn of Abuja. It will be the first time we will have held a meeting in Nigeria and we are proud to be bringing over 1,000 leaders from across Africa and the rest of the world to this dynamic country. Because nowhere else in Africa embodies not just the hopes and aspirations of a continent on the rise, but also the challenges, social, economic and political, that Africans face every day.

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