President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday expressed optimism that the reopening of Nigeria’s land borders will improve its economy, telling the country’s West African neighbours that it is ready to do business with them.
“The message to our West African neighbours is that Nigeria is once again fully open for those willing to conduct business in a fair and equitable way,” Buhari noted in his New Year message to Nigerians in which he admitted that 2020 was one of the country’s most trying times.
He said his administration is working on special intervention projects to help drive entrepreneurial activities and create jobs for Nigeria’s teeming youthful population.
