By Adedapo Adesanya
The Lagos State Government has said the economic summit, Ehingbeti 2020, which is scheduled to hold from November 10 through 12, is targeting 100,000 participants.
This plan was made known by the Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr Sam Egube, who is also the co-chair of the event at a stakeholders’ conference and logo presentation in Lagos on Thursday.
The summit, organised by the Lagos Economic Summit Group (LESG), is expected to provide a robust platform for deliberations on pragmatic optimisation of the inherent opportunities in Africa’s fifth-largest economy.
It is also expected to offer perspectives on how to manage its peculiar socio-economic landscape in the next decade.
Over time, the Lagos Economic Summit has redefined the dynamics of public-private sector collaboration for the development and charted a path for the sustainable socio-economic development of Lagos State.
Mr Egube noted that Ehingbeti as an ingenious socio-economic platform has contributed significantly to the evolution of Lagos State into a major economy in sub-Saharan Africa and an admirable megacity, with more potential.
In the last two decades, Ehingbeti is believed to have played a pivotal role in the transformation of Lagos State, with useful inputs into Lagos State Development Plans.
The summit has gained useful insights from many business and political leaders and renowned economists since its inception in 2000, with the state government implementing 193 out 206 resolutions reached at past editions of the summit.
However, it was last held in 2014 before Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu resuscitated the summit that served as a platform for public-private collaboration in the state.
The summit would have the theme For Greater Lagos: Setting the Tune for the Next Decade.
Dipo Olowookere