Following to general opening of the massive Lagos International Trade Fair complex for business on Monday, January 9, 2023, chief executives and management of the plazas have rolled out goodwill messages to their members including local and international customers.
Recall that the complex, which accommodates well over 15 stakeholding business associations, remains the largest business centre in sub-Saharan Africa.
The complex boosts of well over 100,000 business operators dealing in assorted products and materials. Besides, the complex is the largest concentration of banks and allied financial service providers in Africa.
Business Hilights journalists visited the complex on yesterday, Monday and spoke to leading business and administration executives;
Excerpts:
APT President and Chairman, Trade Fair Stakeholders Association (TFSA)
Chief Eric Ifeanyichukwu Ilechukwu (Akunwafor-Anyirico)
APT President and Chairman, Trade Fair Stakeholders Association (TFSA)
First of all, Happy new year to all Trade Fair Stakeholders, Business Operators and Customers.
I, Chief Eric Ifeanyichukwu Ilechukwu (Akunwafor-Anyirico) and my Exco are wishing all stakeholders happy new year.
This year 2023 will be best of years for you. This year you shall make profit in all your individual businesses and not run loses. Once again thank you for your previous support.
We are truly grateful to you all. I want to use this opportunity to highlight few things.
- All the Plazas will open for business from Monday 9th January 2023.
- We need your maximum cooperation to achieve more this year.
- Expect something new in Trade Fair complex this year.
- Endeavor to be part of peace loving people and peace process. Don’t be part of people that want to instigate or ferment trouble, because in peace, we make more progress.
- We welcome all your contributions and suggestions for better development of the complex this year.
- We will uphold all our mutual agreement and understanding to make Trade Fair stakeholders better.
- Kindly support our good efforts by paying your bills.
Together we shall win.
We, the leadership of TFSA are committed to serve you better.
In god we trust.
Thank you all and once again, Happy New Year 2023
Chief Tony Okeke (Ezekweche Aguleri)
President, Mandilas Int’l Trade Centre (MITC)
First of all, I want thank God for the safety; to and fro all travels during the yuletide of all Mandilas members and customers including all business owners and operators here at the Lagos International Trade Fair complex.
We return all the glory to God. It is not easy. We all know what is happening on the highways. So, we thank Almighty God.
In my capacity as the President of MITC, I wish all my members and our numerous customers from within and outside the country a prosperous new year; 2023.
I believe this is a year of liberation and we shall all live to see the good of the land.
On the fast-approaching 2023 elections, I urge all of us to rush for our PVC, if you have not and keep it ahead of February 25 and March 11, 2023 for Presidential and lawmakers’ elections respectively.
This year’s election is all about voting right candidates you have weighed their potentials to change things for the better in the country.
Let us vote wisely and for good leadership we cannot regret after all.
Happy New Year to all of us.
Alhaji Issa Akanbi Mohammed, President, Africa Tyre Village (ATV)
It’s a thing of joy that we are back to business after the yuletide season. We thank God and I wish all business operators at ATV and very importantly, all our customers from far and wide happy New Year. This year 2023 shall be a blessing to all of us.
On the upcoming 2023 general elections, I want to specially advise all of us here at the Lagos International Trade Fair complex to go get your PVC so as to vote in a government that will support our businesses here.
I want all of to vote enmass for a government that will introduce policies capable of growing our businesses instead of killing our businesses.
Once again, I wish everybody good business, safety and progress.
Thank you all.
Hon. Ngozi Emechebe (Mmiri-Oma), President-Elect of ASPMDA
I want to welcome everybody in ASPMDA with open arms and happiness. This is a new dawn for every one of us and a beautiful beginning for our dear ASPMDA.
I pray for all members of ASPMDA to be hopeful and look onto God at all times because He is our all and all, protector and guidance of all times.
2023 shall be a year of God’s glorious divine manifestations on all of us and we shall eat the good fruit of the land.
By the Grace of God, ASPMDA is matching forward this year and it shall be forward ever in all good fronts, in all our businesses and families.
Therefore, I call on all of us, especially the political class to sheath our swords and come together, join me to move our dear ASPMDA forward. We gain nothing from dragging issues up and down. I want us to go far; that is why I am calling on all men of good will to join me to make ASPMDA proud once more.
Fellow ASPMDANs, I cannot do it alone. But with your support, we can go places in success for all of us.
Once more, I welcome us to 2023 business year. It shall be well for us all.
Now, talking about the fast approaching 2023 general elections in our country Nigeria, first, I want everyone to go and collect his or her PVC and vote wisely.
Thank you.
Hon Bro Leonard Ogbonnia (Lithraco, BBA Chieftain)
NEW YEAR GOOD WILL MESSAGE
In all sincerity of purpose, last year wasn’t too bad a year though. However, as we return Glory and thanks to God Almighty who made it so, we also pray for a better and more prosperous 2023.
Apparently, before the above could be realized this year, it is salient we know and endeavour to internalise certain realities of life centred on TOTALLY OBEDIENT TO GOD.
Imperatively, we should know that success is of the Lord and He gives it to whom he wills, yet at times predicated upon our own disposition.
For this year to be palatable therefore, we should strive to practice: love with passion, learn to tolerate and accommodate one another, learn to propagate Coexistence, learn to practice honesty and sincerity, learn to endeavour to work with our utmost best.
Above all, get our PVC, resolve to cast our vote, and finally, vote accordingly without any iota of compromise.
Surly, this year shall cruise on the altitude of righteousness and land in praise.
Happy credible, fair and free election, Happy safe and prosperous new year.
God Bless You All
Hon Bro Leonard Ogbonnia (Lithraco, BBA)
High Chief (Dr) John Ezeako (Ojijieriji ); BBA Chieftain
Happy New Year to everyone here at Balogun Business Association (BBA) and the Lagos International trade Fair complex.
May this New Year, 2023 lift us up to the highest point of success.
May we see the peak of our personal and professional life this year
We’re thankful to God for all the good and odd things life threw at us in the year 2022. It was meant to make us and not to mar us. The stress, bereavement and other challenges are inherent in life. We were meant to learn from them to move on stronger.
There’s prediction that 2023 will be tougher economically. We should be judicious in our life styles and keep a distance from wastage and profligacy.
May God help us to work harder to meet the challenges of our time
Happy new year to you and your family!
Thanks
High Chief (Dr) John Ezeako ( Ojijieriji )
Ijele 1 of Eke Ancient Kingdom.
Engr. Chris Okoye, Veteran Youth Leader in ASPMDA
I want to wish all ASPMDA members a happy and prosperous new year. All of us shall prosper this year by the special grace of God.
For all of us doing business at the Lagos International Trade Fair complex, I pray to God Almighty to open the doors of new opportunities, change our levels from where we are now to another better level.
I wish everyone good health and success this year as we begin another business year here at the Trade fair complex.
