secretary of state for International Development
Priri Patel, former secretary of state for International Development in the United Kingdom (UK), has called o find n investors to be wary about investing in Nigeria. In a short op-ed for City A.M., London’s first free daily business newspaper, Patel, a member of the UK parliament, said President Muhammadu Buhari’s disrespect for “international law and convention, and court decisions”. Patel, who visited Nigeria in 2017, alongside Boris Johnson, former UK foreign secretary, shared the experience of two Ir house ish businessmen, who suffered from President Buhari’s decision to renege on signed contracts. The full op-ed is reproduced below: When the Nigerian finance minister visited London last week, she and her officials came to ad business vertise Nigeria as a country that is open for business. The minister, Zainab Ahmed, came to promote Nigeria’s $2.8bn Eurobond sale, which follows on from the Nigerian government’s oversubscribed $1bn Eurobond...