"A True/Real Patriotism will Encourage more Foreign Investment in Nigeria" -Buhari

Presidency press statement through the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina.

Speaking with members of the Nigerian community in Doha at a town hall meeting, President Buhari on Sunday has charged Nigerians to rekindle the spirit of patriotism and selfless service in order to encourage more foreign investment in Nigeria. President Buhari gave an assurance that the Federal Government would continue to create enabling environment for investments in the country Nigeria, anchored on peace and security.

"We have enough natural and human resources in the Nigeria, whic includes huge oil and gas deposit".

But the main challenge is securing those installations and to persuade some of our country people to be more patriotic and stop sabotaging the installations.

When people are being kidnapped and some are being killed, when installations are being blown up everywhere, the idea for people to invest in our infrastructure is quite slim

The President, Buhari also gave his word to look into the issue of alleged denial of visas to Nigerian persons and families who wishes to visit the state of Qatar

"As do say to other Nigerians living in other countries all over the world, you must try to be good ambassadors of Nigeria, because worldwide things are quite difficult in terms of security and the economy."

"What ever good thing you find to do, please hold it tight and do it well with all your heart and try to improve on it, because things are quite difficult everywhere."

" As for those of us staying in Nigeria, we are all trying to do our best to cut down rate unemployment and we realised this quite early enough, that was why we campaigned on the diversification of the economy."

"We have to return back to where we started, as in agriculture like in the good old days of cocoa, palm oil, palm kernel, cotton, groundnuts, hides and skins’’.

``As at When we came in to government in May 2015, the Boko Haram were seriously holding 14 local governments hostage out of 774 local governments in Nigeria but as of today they are not holding a single local government,’’ he said.

The military and law enforcement agencies were and are still working very hard to prevent and counter Boko Haram attacks on soft targets in the country.