Ibrahim Oyewale in Lokoja
As a part of efforts to advertise intra-community commerce inside the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the ECOWAS Commission and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in collaboration with the Kogi State Government, have educated enterprise associations, entrepreneurs and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the a number of beneficial properties of the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme and the benefits accrued if the state keys into the scheme.
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Sola Enikanolaye, disclosed this whereas talking on the opening ceremony of the one-day ECOWAS Sensitisation workshop on the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme for the North Central geopolitical zone held on the Government House in Lokoja yesterday.
Enikanolaye described the ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Scheme as a singular alternative to strengthen intra-regional commerce and financial progress.
He defined that the scheme would afford the enterprise associations the chance to course of their merchandise, package deal them and promote them elsewhere inside the ECOWAS area.
The minister counseled the Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo, for internet hosting the workshop in Kogi State, stressing that the advantages of the workshop will set off financial prosperity to Kogi State and different states within the North Central geopolitical zone.
He identified that with an avalanche of agricultural and mineral assets in Kogi State, the state will stay the hub of processing mineral assets and agricultural produce to spice up the state financial system.
He referred to as on contributors to benefit from the workshop to be taught the rudiments of the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation potential for manufacturing and prosperity.
The Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo, who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Joel Oyibo, counseled the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Sola Enikanolaye, for his initiative to carry the scheme to the state when the state was striving to make sure that it faucets assets to the fullest to spice up the financial system.
Ododo defined that the state needs to turn out to be the hub of agricultural produce and different pure mineral assets, stressing that the strategic location of the state will probably be an added benefit for financial improvement.
The governor, subsequently, urged the contributors to benefit from the potential of the ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Scheme to supply for the prosperity and the advantage of Kogi State and Nigeria typically.
Also, the National President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in his remarks, lauded the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Enikanolaye, for the great intention to advertise native commerce.
He identified that Kogi State is appropriate within the North Central, including that it will ignite the promotion of made-in-Nigeria merchandise within the state.
