Minister Wants Nigeria’s Trade To Africa, World

The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Chief Achike Udenwa, has canvassed for export of Nigeria’a aervicea to African countries and the world at large, saying that, it is through aggressive trade that the country can make impact in the global economy.

The Minister, who spoke when he received the delegation of the Commonwealth Secretariat, recently in Abuja, said that it was not only exportation of goods but also export of services to the world that makes the difference.

He called on the Common wealth secretariat to articulate the strategy  that will make export of services an important segment of Nigeria’s total export.

“There are quite a lot of services we can articulate and harness. We have a lot of talented Nigerians who can provide their services to the rest of the world in the area of finance, insurance, social services, legal and information technology, music and drama”, he said, charging the common- wealth secretariat to provide the blueprint that will assist Nigeria to enhance export of services.

Udenwa said that export of services have been haphazard stating that a lot of local export are not well documented.

He sought for technical assistant from the Commonwealth secretariat that will help the country achieve the objectives of the ministry in increasing productive capacity, increase of non-oil export and decrease in importation of consumer goods.

Earlier, Esthera Aryada, the leader of the Common-wealth delegation, had stated that they were in the country to study Nigeria’s environment with a view to identifying sub-sector that are competitive and find out their constraints and make recommendation on how they can be addressed.