Nigeria has lost substantial money from on-going nationwide strike in protest of the removal of fuel subsidy.
BusinessWorld investigations show that seminars, meetings, training programmes that were hitherto scheduled to hold in various parts of the country were either taken to London, Ghana or South Africa depending on the interest of the organizers. Dr Christopher Akolo, a medical practitioner with University of Maryland told BusinessWorld that a tripartite meeting of the school which was to originally hold in Abuja had to be shifted to London.
According to him, the meeting was already rescheduled to hold in London going by the sporadic bomb blast by Boko Haram in virtually all areas of northern Nigeria. The nationwide strike action that had paralysed all activities, he said, only made matters worst.
Mr. Parashu Nepal, director, International Operations at International Development Institute was working to reschedule his proposed working visit to Nigeria.
“I only hope the crisis would have been over in the next ten days because I was supposed to have been in the country this week,” Nepal told BusinessWorld at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington D.C., where he went for some documentations.