FARMERS SEEK BETTER POLICIES, CLIMATE CONDITION IN 2023 Dr Femi Oke, Chairman, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Lagos State Chapter and South-West Zone, has expressed optimism about friendly policies and climate conditions in 2023 to increase food production. Oke said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in […]
UK GOVERNMENT CUTS TARIFFS ON NIGERIAN EXPORTS The UK Government announced it has reduced tariffs on duty-free trade in goods exported from Nigeria. This was disclosed by Mr Ben Llewellyn-Jones, Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria at the launch of the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS) in Lagos. He stated the move which will take effect from […]
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has reaffirmed its commitment to collaborate with key stakeholders in developing and promoting the non-oil export sector. The Executive Secretary of NEPC, Dr. Ezra Yakusak, said this at the interactive dinner for Ambassadors/High Commissioners and development partners in Nigeria on Friday in Abuja. According to Yakusak, NEPC cannot effectively […]
Nigeria’s non-oil exports rose by 29 percent, year-on-year, YoY, to $6.56 billion in ten months, reflecting the impact of Federal Government efforts to boost foreign exchange inflow from non-oil sources as well as favorable commodity prices in the international market. The figure was $4.58 billion in the corresponding period of 2021 (10M’21).
The Nigeria Customs Service, Area II Command Onne Port, Rivers State Command generated a total sum of Two hundred and Forty-Two Billion, Ninety Million, Six Hundred and Twenty-Nine Thousand, Three Hundred and Nine Naira, twenty-nine kobo (₦242,090,629,309.29) from duty paid on imported goods in 2022. This was made known in a press release on Monday […]
Export Trade: FCMB rallies operators to diversify and stimulate the economy Nigeria’s vast non-oil endowment must be urgently leveraged to diversify and expand its revenue base, reduce the dependence on crude oil for foreign exchange earnings, and stimulate rapid economic growth. Policymakers, financiers, export trade experts, and value chain players insisted on this in Lagos […]
NEPC, NOA TO DRIVE ‘EXPORT FOR SURVIVAL’ CAMPAIGN IN 36 STATES The Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC, and the National Orientation Agency, NOA have agreed to partner in creating awareness for the Export4Survival campaign in the 36 States of Nigeria. The Executive Director/CEO of NEPC, Dr. Ezra Yakusak said this while on a working visit […]
The continued rejection of Nigeria’s food exports to foreign countries shows that Nigerian government workers are simply not doing their work. Those who are supposed to supervise governance and ensure that government policies are efficiently implemented are also not doing their work. Way back in October 2017, former Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, had publicly […]
The Federal Government through its National Agricultural Seeds Council has commenced moves to make Nigeria a full member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to boost the country’s export of seeds. It disclosed this at the International OECD Seed certification workshop on Wednesday in Abuja, where the global cooperation trained Nigerian officials as […]
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC, and the National Orientation Agency, NOA have agreed to partner in creating awareness for the Export4Survival campaign in the 36 States of Nigeria. The Executive Director/CEO of NEPC, Dr. Ezra Yakusak said this while on a working visit to the NOA in Abuja. Dr. Yakusak explained that the move […]
