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Council Tasks Nigerians On Dev Drive
The Raw Materials
Research and Development Council (RMRDC), has advised Nigerians to key into the country’s new industrial development drive.
The Director General of RMRDC, Dr Hussein Doko Ibrahim gave this charge while speaking at the public presentation of 2nd Nigerian Raw Materials Exposition (NIRAM) Expo 2014, tagged, “Achieving Nigerian Industrial Revolution Plan through Raw Materials Sourcing.”
Ibrahim, who was represented by the Director Agriculture and Agro Allied Department, Dr Moyo Jolaoso, noted that the Nigerian economy had been going through a very tough challenges in recent times.
He attributed this to the various challenges of under development and therefafter encouraged Nigerians to queue up and be counted in the drive for a new dawn in industrial development of the Nigerian state.
“A major challenge in this regard is the issue of achieving a sustainable means of sourcing for raw materials by the many mannfacturing industries in Nigeria,” he said.
He described the council as an important stakeholder in the industrial sector of the economy and stressed that it was concerned about the state of manufacturing in Nigeria and seriously spearheading the process of bringing about rapid transformation of the industrial sector of the economy through the institution of the NIRAM Expo.