President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday expressed his satisfaction with assurances from the management of Centenary City Plc that all the original inhabitants of the site have been compensated in full.
The president spoke after he was briefed by the Chairman of the company's board of directors, Gen Abdulsalam Abubakar (retd) and his management team.
The president lauded the Centenary City's main development partners for being confident enough in Nigeria to decide to invest over $18b in the project.
Buhari equally welcomed the disclosure by the Board of Directors that the project would create about 250,000 direct jobs and 500,000 indirect jobs in Abuja, FCT.
A statement issued by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu said, , “the President noted that skills, expertise and vast experience that will be brought into the country to build the Centenary City on the Dubai model, will also be of immense benefit to Nigeria’s overall development.”
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