▪︎ Olusegun Aganga, a former Minister of Industry Trade and Investment, has fingered the lack of continuity of industrial policy by successive governments as the problem hampering the growth of the sector in Nigeria. ” The manufacturing sector’s contributions to the GDP in other countries are above 25 percent but in Nigeria, it’s is below…
The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has announced Fernando Gonzalez, CEO of Cemex as its new President. Mr. Gonzalez has been GCCA Vice President since 2018 and succeeds the outgoing President, Jan Jenisch, whose term of office now ends after two years. Fernando Gonzalez is CEO of Mexico-based Cemex and has been with the company since 1998.Mr. Gonzalez…
▪︎Labour Strike The Organised Private Sector Nigeria (OPSN) has condemns the incessant bickering between the Federal Government and the labour unions- National Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), saying it poses a serious threat to the country’s economy. The OPSN members are Manufacturers Association of Nigeria(MAN); Nigerian Association of Chambers of…
▪︎Minister of Industry, Doris-Anite The Centre For The Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) says that statistical data from the Small and Medium Enterprises Agency of Nigeria [SMEDAN], and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) are valuable resources for the government’s economic policy makers . Dr. Muda Yusuf, the CEO of CPPE, made this known during…
A ceremony to formally install Alhaji Tijjani Borodo as the 18th President and Chairman of Governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Directors Nigeria (CIoD Nigeria) will hold this week Thursday in Lagos. In a statement, Mr. Dele Alimi, the Director – General/ Chief Executive Officer of CIoD Nigeria, said that the high-profile event will…
▪︎Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite The Commerce and Industry Correspondents Association of Nigeria (CICAN) has enjoined the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite, to let her impacts be felt on the sector. In a statement from the Association’s Secretariat in Lagos, and signed by its President, Charles Okonji,…
▪︎File photo from previous edition / MAN The Nigeria Manufacturing and Equipment Expo with the theme: Future of Manufacturing, will be held in partnership with the Nigeria Raw Materials Exhibition (NIRAM Expo) in November 2023, at the Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos. The Expo being the 7th edition in the series, is organised yearly by…
The Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of manufacturing companies in Nigeria have penciled down their agendas for the new minister of Industry, Trade and Investment – Dr.Doris Anite. Dr. Anite was sworn -in on Monday by President Bola Tinubu alongside 44 other ministers at the State House Conference Centre (Old Banquet Hall), Abuja. During the ceremony,…
