President Muhammadu Buhari urged Toyota Group of Japan to establish its assembly plant in Nigeria.
President Buhari also held investment talks with top officials of Japan Bank for International Cooperation, at the margins of the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 7).
Led by its Deputy Governor, Mr. Nobumitsu Hayashi, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation indicated its interest in supporting projects in which Japanese companies are involved in Nigeria.
The bank said it had lots of resources dedicated for that purpose, and would be interested in oil and gas, and investments in infrastructure.
President Buhari welcomed the bank, informing the team that Nigeria had introduced the Ease of Doing Business, and bureaucratic bottlenecks were being cleared off the way.
Meanwhile Toyota Motor Corp is investigating a blaze at its headquarters in western Japan, believed to have broken out in the technology development division .
Report says that all employees had been evacuated and no one was injured.
Toyota city is about three hundred and twenty kilometers west of Toyota, the Japanese capital which is near the city of Nagoya
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