NEPC’s Segun Awolowo on securing investments for Africa
By CNBC
14 November 2018 |
5:30 am
Segun Awolowo, Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council says it is hard to do business and industrialise in Africa with interest rates around 24 per cent. He discussed this and more with CNBC Africa’s Christy Cole on the side-lines of the recently concluded African Investment Forum.
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