No compromise on ban of some imported goods – FG

The Federal Government has restated its commitment to the enforcement of laws banning some classes of imported goods into the country.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige stated this at the weekend during the just concluded Lagos International Trade Fair, saying the Federal Government will not compromise its resolve to enforce the ban placed on goods Nigeria has a comparative advantage to produce.

Ngige was represented by the Lagos Sttae represtative on the board of the National Directorate of Employment, Bashorun Olorunfemi, adding that government would continue to check the tide of unnecessary importation of goods and services which could be sourced locally.

According to him, the Federal Government had also initiated several policies aimed at stimulating growth and prosperity of the local industry in the country.

He said: “Let me assure you that this present government will not compromise its resolve to enforce existing laws as regards the banning of importation of certain goods that the country has a comparative advantage to produce. The Federal Government has initiated a number of policies aimed at stimulating growth and prosperity of the local industry.

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“The APC-led government through the Social Investment Programme, SIP, has successfully engaged about 500,000 unemployed graduates through the N-Power Programme. Micro enterprise has been greatly impacted with the introduction of Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, GEEP, where N15,183 billion interest free loans ranging from N50,000 to N350,000 have been disbursed to more than 300,000 market women, traders and farmers.”

The Director General of NDE, Dr. Nasir Mohammed Ladan, while also speaking at the NDE special day at the fair, said NDE had trained over 96,000 unemployed youths and women in cosmetology and other vocational skills.

Ladan commended the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, for providing a platform for some of the trainees to exhibit their produces.

He also revealed that arrangement had been put in place for 5,000 NDE trained beneficiaries to access a loan package amounting up to N10 million from the Central Bank of Nigeria.

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