Business
Stakeholders Task FG On Nigerian Goods
Some stakeholders have appealed to the Federal Government to ban importation of more goods and promote locally produced ones.
They made the call in separate interviews in Lagos yesterday on the occasion of the World Entrepreneurship Day.
The Chairman, Lagos State Chapter of Nigeria Association of Small-Scale Industrialists (NASSI), Mr Segun Kuti-George, said that the high cost of production and low patronage had crippled Nigerian factories.
He said that undue competition with foreign goods had choked local industries from thriving.
A producer of precious cookies, Mrs Bunmi Aremo, also appealed to the Federal government to help increase Nigerians’ demand for local products.
Aremo decried the low patronage of locally produced cookies due to preference for foreign cookies.
The Chief Executive Officer of Rehoboth Couture, a fashion outfit in Lagos, Mrs Flora Izebhor, said that Nigerian fashion designers could compete with their foreign counterparts.
Izebhor said that fashion designers should be encouraged through exhibitions and fairs at low cost.
Also a maker of earrings and necklaces, Miss Lara Odetade, said that she would not need a paid job if her products were being patronised and she had access to credit.
Odetade said that she could create more jobs by training unemployed youths on her products if she had access to credit.