Share The Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC) Mr Olusegun Awolowo has revealed that if properly developed, the non-oil sector would earn the country over $50 billion and create 500,000 employment opportunities for teeming youths in the country. Awolowo noted that the federal government was committed to drive the country from the dependence on crude oil and explore other areas which would boost economic growth and development. He said, “In the non-oil sector the quest to create a market thrust of the federal government. The development of the non-oil sector if properly harnessed can see the country earn more than $50billion, create more than 500,000 additional jobs annually as a result of export activities. It can also lift millions of Nigerians out of poverty.”