Although the port is close to the NRC station with a rail line from Lagos to Kano and a connecting line that enters the ports premises, lack of locomotive and wagon has hindered the rail operations.
“The Nigerian Railway Corporation has indicated its readiness to commence rail haulage very soon after test-running the rail lines from Zaria to Jebba and Lagos to Jebba.
“With this, I assure you that the hindrances facing in-export logistics will be eliminated and northern exporters will smile and enjoy the dividend of the present government under President Muhammadu Buhari,” Rotimi said.
A pre-inspection agent, Bodam Sammy, of Anglia International Services Limited, urged exporters to study and learn the procedures required for export so that they do not fall into the hands of the wrong agent.
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Enugu, March 9, 2021 The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has announced a remarkable improvement in the volume and value of Nigeria’s non-oil trade in the international market.
The Executive Director of NEPC, Mr Olusegun Awolowo, disclosed this on Tuesday, in Enugu, at a sensitisation workshop on ‘Export Facilitation Measures, Practices and Standards’.
Awolowo, who was represented by the Director, Trade Information, Mrs Evelyn Obisike, described the development as a fallout of the diversification reforms of the Federal Government, aimed at promoting non-oil trade.
He also said that the reforms in the sector had led to high demand for Nigerian products on the international market.
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ON February 1, 2021 the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo, announced with flourish the Federal Government’s approval of the National Quality Policy, NQP, which is primarily meant to stop the rejection of Nigerian exports to foreign countries.
Much as this measure is welcome in that it will help in solving a major impediment to our efforts to diversify our means of earning foreign exchange from dependence on crude oil sales, it is seriously bemusing that a country that gained its independence over 60 years ago and once depended on produce exports for its survival is only just now realising the need to create an NQP to promote its exports.
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The Nigerian Export Promotion Council has vowed to make Nigerian cuisine an international brand to make it compete compete favorably with other conutries’ brands.
The Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Olusegun Awolowo, said this during a one-day sensitisation programme for exporters of Nigerian cuisine organised by NEPC on Thursday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital.
Awolowo, represented by the Deputy Director, International Export Office of NEPC, Mr Iliya Yaro, expressed hope that the country would compete with branded restaurants like Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Malaysian and Ethiopian who had gained currency in the global market.