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Stanley Nkwocha @stanleynkwocha_


VP Shettima Welcomes Visa Inc's Pledge To Site Data Centre In Nigeria

Visa Inc. @Visa, an American multinational payment card services corporation, has updated Vice President Kashim Shettima on plans to site data centre infrastructure in Nigeria.

This is in addition to its investments of over $1 billion in the country, including a substantial technological partnership with MoniePoint to foster digital payment solutions, a $200 million investment in Interswitch, and a partnership with @thriveagric to empower smallholder farmers and enhance food security in Nigeria.

Visa's Regional President for Central, & Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA), Mr. Andrew Torre, disclosed this when he led a delegation of the company on a courtesy visit to Vice President Shettima at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Mr Torre said while Visa Inc. "has been making investments and will continue to make these investments in Nigeria", the plan to site the data centre infrastructure is aimed at bringing new technologies into the Nigerian market that would bolster the nation's growing digital economy.

According to him, partners like Hugo, and Samsung require some of Visa's technologies to launch mobile payment services for a more competitive and cost-effective market.

Responding, Vice President Shettima @officialSKSM assured the US-based corporation team that the patronage and partnership between Visa and the Nigerian government will continue to grow by leaps and bounds.

VP Shettima also applauded Visa for investing in ThriveAgriculture, noting that the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT is quite passionate about repositioning the agriculture sector, which is one of the primes in the administration's 8-point agenda.

He said, "Nigeria is where the action is. Of the ten fintechs in Africa, about eight are in Nigeria, with Moniepoint as the newest addition. Agriculture is key to the 8-point agenda of the present administration. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is really keen on repositioning the agriculture industry here, and we have to invest in technology, we have to invest in modernisation.


"If we must improve on agriculture, we must embrace modernity, improve agricultural prices, seeds, fertilization, and intermediate technology. ThriveAgriculture is a company that has a focus on food security, providing up-to-date data to our farmers. And be rest assured that the patronage, the partnership between the government of Nigeria and Visa will only grow by leaps and bounds."

The Nigerian Vice President urged Visa Inc. to also invest in the Outsource to Nigeria Initiative @otni_ng of the federal government to help facilitate access to finance for the creative sector to boost the nation's digital and creative economy.

Also on the Visa delegation were the Senior Vice President, Head of Western and Central Africa, Mr. Andrew Uaboi, and Vice President, Head of West Africa @VisaNigeria, Mr. Chidozie Arinze.

Stanley Nkwocha
Senior Special Assistant to The President on Media & Communications
(Office of The Vice President)
21st March, 2025

https://x.com/stanleynkwocha_/status/1903050897871212847?t=65XSenGGA7J5lD74NiWaBA&s=19[/quote]That's impressive.

The huge Nigerian Diaspora and Nigeria-based population of slightly over 230 million approximately CANNOT be ignored by any major investor who has eyes for good returns on investments provided there's a conducive business ecosystem in place.

DIVINEEVIDENCE:
Nice one.

I hope they crash the dollar-to-Naira difficulties posed by traditional banks so drop shipping could become a thing again.

anonimi:
World Bank offers Nigeria forex rate advice, as Tinubu eyes N200/Dollar rate

April 23, 2023

The President-elect said he would work with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to *bring down the exchange rate to N200 in his first term.*

“My administration will collaborate with the Central Bank to harmonize the fiscal and monetary policy to achieve immediate stabilization of the value of the naira against the US dollars and other currencies and in the short term, strengthen the naira by boosting the supply of foreign currency and moderating demand.

“The short-term goal is to achieve a naira/dollar rate of 300 naira/US$ and gradually achieve a less than 200 naira rate over the next four years, Tinubu stated.

https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/world-bank-offers-nigeria-forex-rate-advice-as-tinubu-eyes-n200-dollar-rate/?amp

teeteepeejay:
It’s very okay not to like Tinubu
Even more okay not to like APC
Very much okay not to like Lagos

But to hate your country!!! So much that any good news about it makes you sad ehn! Sadness will not leave your life till eternity oooo.

anonimi:
A competent looter is what you mean.

Lagos state budget was N43 billion 25 years ago and now it’s N3.4 trillion. The budget has grown 79 times over the quarter century from IGR squeezed out of the public and higher federal allocation received on behalf of the masses as well as loans to be repaid by all Lagosians.

How much improvement in basic services, amenities and utilities was achieved with this 79 times growth in budget, using Tinubu’s master plan? If it doesn’t match what Jakande did in just four years, should Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode and Sanwo Olu not be in jail like Buhari did to Jakande in 1984?

Max24:
You people keep using Jakande that was dead several years ago to compare Tinubu. Why not use a contemporary gov, then we will know you are making a point. Why not use contemporary gov like Obi to compare him. Or is it that you find it impossible to compare him to any contemporary gov? The fact that you people are always mentoring Jakande shows that he is at least the best in the current times since 1999. Also compare his tenure with the achievements of his political opposition like Atiku and Obi. Only someone that wants to lie will say his witness is dead. Use life witnesses please.

jjbest123:
They are welcome 🤗🤗🤗.

Just a quick advise; in whatever they do,they should invest heavily on solar,to avoid adding up their operational cost with Diesel cost.

My one cent

BlueStripper:
Nigeria will rise again to reclaim her spot in the global stage.

OgbeniOja1:
this relegated vice president. they should meet seyi if they are serious

anonimi:
Why do you read religious books about people who died several millennia ago?

Jakande was a progressive like Tinubu claims to be, and also a governor of Lagos State just like Tinubu again. Why would a sensible person fail to compare his current position with that of his past, to know what progress or lack thereof, he has made

BlueStripper:
Nigeria will rise again to reclaim her spot in the global stage.

teeteepeejay:
It’s very okay not to like Tinubu
Even more okay not to like APC
Very much okay not to like Lagos

But to hate your country!!! So much that any good news about it makes you sad ehn! Sadness will not leave your life till eternity oooo.

Atlantis585:
I didn’t know Shettima is still the VP. I thought Wike is both the VP and co-president.

BlueStripper:
Nigeria will rise again to reclaim her spot in the global stage.

jjbest123:
They are welcome 🤗🤗🤗.

Just a quick advise; in whatever they do,they should invest heavily on solar,to avoid adding up their operational cost with Diesel cost.

My one cent

femi4:
Motivational speaker

BlueStripper:
Child of perdition.

redcliff:
This is what your grandfathets also thought, they did not live to see their delusion come to frutuition. Its also going to happen to you because you do not understand that for Nigeria to work, this current system nigeria run on, should not be in place. Anyother thong you are talking is Saaraa...

femi4:
Child of facts

Sermwell:
You're just deceiving yourself!! These are mere propaganda and not any good news! These nonsense end here on paper!
Where's the increased minimum wage, including corpers allowee promised by these useless government since last year?? Where's the development promised for the removal of subsidy?? Where's the cheap fuel promised as a result of working refineries?? Who and who got students loans??

Alliswell248:
Stale.
The only thing that gives the headless and senseless mob is destruction.

Everything about you is hate and bitterness.

Sore losers

Imagine US citizens calling Elon Musk the VP. because of his closeness to Trump

BlueStripper:
Nigeria will rise again to reclaim her spot in the global stage.

Benbroz:
You dont have a job so how would you know that they have started paying minimum wages.

You didn't graduate from school to be in nysc so how would you receive the increased allowee that will start end of this month.

The painful part is that at this point you are not even in uni or have plans to enter one so how do you intend to get student loan that real students are already getting.

Now listen, I'm not a supporter of Tinubu or the Apc because of the hardship they have brought, but to be bitter all the time and condemn even the littles ones they are doing that is helping some people is what i will not do.

If nothing at all is favouring you in all that is happening then you need to check yourself and find better means for youtself and stop waiting for the government you have bitterness for because they dont know you. Get a life for ypirself and trust me you will no longer be pained by whatever the government is doing.

jjbest123:
They are welcome 🤗🤗🤗.

Just a quick advise; in whatever they do,they should invest heavily on solar,to avoid adding up their operational cost with Diesel cost.

My one cent

1Alex:
the only thing attracting these people to Nigeria is its population. Nothing more. My dear country is a major stakeholder in corruption.

BlueStripper:
And you think you are speaking to a teenager or a boy of 40 years? Stop projecting your hate, disdain, generational failure and genetic poverty timeline through everyone and everything you see.

Nigeria wil be great again and there is nothing you or your bloodline of unpatriotic leechers can do about it.