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Federal Government on Thursday tasked the newly opened to embrace the local content policy in order to promote made-in-Nigeria goods, stem capital flight and conserve the most needed foreign exchange.
Buhari stated this at the opening ceremony of Novare Gateway mall (Shoprite), in Abuja, he said hope it would boost tourism, create jobs and provide refreshing shopping space for residents and visitors alike.
According to President Buhari who was represented by Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Muhammad Bello, “I hope it would boost tourism, create jobs and provide refreshing shopping space for residents and visitors alike.
“The opening of this world class facility on the prime location of the Abuja International Airport Expressway is, indeed, a showpiece of the role of the private sector in the development of all great cities.
“The Novare Gateway Mall, beyond its commercial potentials, represents a practical expression of Abuja’s openness for business. It is also a reminder to investors, who are still waiting on the wings, that time is running out on them
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“Among the qualities that make a great city are its landscape, cultural life, tourism potentials and shopping precincts.
The completion and opening of the Novare Gateway Mall is indeed a welcome addition into the Abuja landscape and an added beauty to its skyline.
We hope it would boost tourism, create jobs and provide refreshing shopping space for residents and visitors alike.
“Permit me to reiterate my call on the management, last year, to embrace the local content policy of the present administration designed to promote made-in-Nigeria goods, stem capital flight and conserve the most needed foreign exchange.
Nigeria cannot afford to continue as a dumping ground for foreign goods especially of such products where it has been abundantly blessed.
Nigeria’s vegetables and fruits are rated among the best in the world. You would be demonstrating a very great act of patriotism to promote the cultivation of such crops at home as you would wish to shelf on your shops”.
He therefore commended the management of Novare Real Estate Africa for the timely completion of this magnificent edifice, barely 18 months after we laid the foundation stone.
This is, indeed, very exemplary in the practice of construction engineering. “I commend you also for the interest you have taken to ensure that the buffer zone extending to the express road from your premises is landscaped.
It has added, not only to the ambience of the shopping environment and would improve the aesthetics of airport express road whenever it comes to full bloom.
In the same vein, I call upon all owners of property on the buffer zones of the Abuja International Airport Expressway and indeed, all other major roads in the city to emulate the good example of the Novare Real Estate Africa”, he said.
Idu Jude, Abuja
