Vice President Kashim Shettima yesterday said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was working hard to make Nigeria an investment destination in Africa.

He said this during a group discussion on ‘Humanitarian and Resilience, Investing Roadmap for Africa,’ at the ongoing 2025 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Stanley Nkwocha, his spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday.

The session was co-chaired by Mirek Dusek, Managing Director of WEF, and chaired by Marie-Laure Olugbade, Senior Vice President, African Development Bank (AFDB).

The title of the 2025 WEF is, “Roadmap to Co-create Investment Opportunities for Africa’s Frontier Markets.”

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The Vice-President stated that Nigeria was poised to invade the global business platform with modernisation and robust investments.

According to Shettima, serious investors can now take unfettered advantage of Nigeria’s growing investment climate to tap from the limitless opportunities in the country and the African continent.

He told the forum that the tales they heard about the country and the African continent as a whole were really not that of doom and gloom as being painted by doomsday proponents.

He, however, said the nation still had certain challenges, and was looking up to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to address them.

Shettima insisted that the African continent had woken up from its slumber.

Shettima said Africa had come of age and could no longer be treated like an adolescent.