PRESS RELEASE - Maiden Ogbomoso Economic And Investment Summit Set To Hold 2022

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The president and founder of Ogbomoso Business Roundtable Investment Summit, Benjamin Onigbinde, CEO Sigvent Property Trust Limited  has addressed the media ahead of the maiden business summit in Ogbomosoland, in his statement, he emphasized the event being organised following government’s current emphasis on providing unprecedented support for the small and large business across board.

PRESS RELEASE
Ogbomoso Business Roundtable a nonprofit independent group of business leaders of ogbomoso indigene is organizing the first ever OGBOMOSO ECONOMIC AND INVESTMENT SUMMIT with the theme ‘Exploring Economic Potential of Ogbomosoland: Engage, Collaborate and Invest. According to the Founder/President of the Organization, Mr. Benjamin Onigbinde, The inaugural Ogbomoso Economic and Investment Summit is holding in order to highlight economic opportunities in Ogbomosoland to local and international audience including policy makers, business leaders, academic and finance professionals for a vibrant discussion on the way to improve economic climate of the city. The summit will provide open platform for dialogue on how the city’s economy can turn seemingly less active to high-end business environment.
The challenges of economic development of the 5 local government of ogbomosoland are beyond what the local government administration and indigenous entrepreneurs can handle despite various economic potentials in the land. Ogbomoso has faced a prolong fight against ineptitude growth in recent years with many companies folding up and financial institutions relocating. 

He highlighted some other challenges to include adequate power supply, unemployment due to lockdown of industries, road infrastructures, SME Finance, among others. According to him the Summit aim is to sensitize various economic stakeholders to the vast resources that are available in Ogbomoso. It will bring together business and marketplace leaders, the academic, entrepreneurs, investment groups, government agencies, policy makers and all those with a desire to advance value based business and economic activities within ogbomoso to share ideas and create awareness on the varied and diverse opportunities that are abound in the second biggest economy in Oyo State.

Onigbinde also said the scope of the summit will cover various economic areas including manufacturing, agriculture, sports, housing, medical tourism, SME Finance among others. The summit will not only provide opportunities for investors to explore investment opportunities in the city but also support both local and state government development agenda for accelerated development.

Onigbinde, the CEO of Sigvent Property Trust Limited who’s currently developing CITY AVENUE, a housing estate listed the objectives of the summit to include; articulate and project the diverse resources abound in Ogbomosoland; promote the city to both national and foreign investors as attractive investment destination; introduce paradigm in business and present new business ideas especially in the Small and Medium Scale enterprise sector as a transformation model; work towards finding alternative solutions to those who lack access to job and education through economic and investment activities; strengthen relationship between government and private sectors. 

The dignitaries expected at the summit schedule to hold on the 23rd to 24th of November 2002 at the Ogbomoso Recreation Centre, includes the Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, The Minister of Trade, Industry and Investment Otunba Niyi Adebayo. 

Benjamin Onigbinde
Founder/President

-Insideogbomosonews

Comments

  1. AnonymousJuly 5, 2022 at 3:07 PM

    This is a nice initiative

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  2. AnonymousJuly 13, 2022 at 10:27 AM

    The date mentioned in the blog/write up above should be corrected. We are in 2022 NOT 2002.
    Èngr. S. O. Alabi.

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