FG heeds to Dangote, plans review of FTZs’ incentives for competitiveness
Barely one week after the President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote at the University of Ibadan, stressed that political will and success mentality remain key drivers of industrialization, the Nigeria Industrial Council and Competiveness Advisory Council (NICCAC) has moved…
Digital Economy: FG putting the cart before the horse at home, in Silicon Valley?
Whereas the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah in Silicon Valley, US weekend, said Nigerian digital economy is projected to generate $88billion and create up to three million jobs in the next three years, industry have raised…
Participants give antidote on achieving global competitiveness
Participants at a High Level Policy and Private Sector Trade and Investment Facilitation Partnership Forum, have reiterated the need to attract over $2.5trillion investments yearly across competitive industries in order to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A consortium…
Worried by failures, FG plans re-launch of ease of doing business
In what pundits see as a subtle way of accepting poor results of the first launch of the ease of doing business in Nigeria, the federal government has decided to unveil what it described as second action plan on the…
4,000 to 5,000MW of power very bad for Nigeria’s industrial quest—-BUA group boss
A member of the Nigeria Industrial Policy and Competitiveness Advisory Council (NIPCAC) committee, and Chairman of the BUA Group, Abdulsamad Rabiu, has sounded it loud and clear that marking time around the power production capacity of 4,000 and 5,000MW has…
Stop discussing ease of doing business, solve the puzzle, simple! Industrialists tell FG
Just as the federal government, through the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah, will tomorrow (Thursday, May 4) meet with members of the Institute of Directors (IoD) at an interactive Advocacy Roundtable Forum in Lagos on ease of…
FG begins audit of N300bn Export Expansion Grant scheme claims
As part of renewed efforts by the federal government to raise confidence in promoting non-oil exports, it has commenced a verification of the claims by exporters under the Export Expansion Grant (EEG) scheme. Before now, exporters had been groaning over…
Resolve ease of doing business before promoting continental trade, Nigerians tell FG
Recent inauguration of the twenty-one man Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) committee to negotiate trade deals as well as identify opportunities to promote investments in the economy by the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment has elicited reactions from…
FG deepens boost for tomato production with new production policy
Barely one month after the Dangote Tomato factory resumed operations in Kano, the Federal Government on Tuesday announced a new policy for tomatoes to drive massive investments in the sub sector. The new policy is designed to grow the production…
FG to reconstitute suspended board on review of Corporate Governance Code—Minister
As part of smart moves to rebound ease of doing business in Nigeria which recently ranked very poor, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Okechukwu Enelamah has revealed that all is set for the reconstitution of a board…
