DEVELOPMENT OF INVESTMENT POLICY FOR STIMULATING A COMPANY’S ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN NIGERIA (based on MTN company)

Abstract

The type of investment policy in any country has a big influence on the level of growth and development of business activities. If the investment policy is favorable and adaptive, it enhances business activities to flourish and bring economic development. However, if it is not, it can stifle business growth and economic development in the country.
 This article analyzes the impact of the foreign direct investment policy adopted by the Nigerian Government on economic growth in the country with a particular focus on MTN Nigeria, a foremost telecommunication company in Nigeria. It further analysis the economic activities of MTN as a company by its impact on the GDP of Nigeria as a country, the company’s financial activities, threats and risks it has to combat and mitigate inorder for it to achieve these phenomenal and outstanding results over the years of its existence as a corporate entity in Nigeria.
 The article therefore summarily establishes foreign direct investment policy as one of the investment policies that drive economic growth and business development especially in the telecommunication industry in Nigeria. It compares the foreign direct investment policy in Nigeria as against the indigenization policy previously adopted which stifled the growth of businesses in Nigeria and further recommends the foreign direct policy as a more effective and liberal policy that allows the Nigerian economy to thrive and business economic activities to grow at the same time.