Kidnapping Scaring Foreign Investors From Nigeria —NGE

The Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, has expressed concern over the upsurge in kidnapping across Nigeria, which has become a national menace that is negatively impacting on the social and economic life of the country.

Rising from its 4th quarterly Standing Committee meeting in Yola, Adamawa State, weekend, the Guild in a communique signed by the president, Funke Egbemode, and secretary, Victoria Ibanga, said the new dimension was portraying the country negatively in the eye of the global community, with the potential of scaring away foreign investors, at a time their contribution was crucial to revamp the country’s ailing economy.