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NEPC Tasks Textile Manufacturers On Market Potentials
The Nigerian Export
Promotion Council (NEPC) has tasked textile and apparel manufacturers to take advantage of business and investment potentials from the global market.
The Managing Director, NEPC, Olusegun Awolowo, explained that it is imperative for the Nigerian textile industry to brace up to take a market share in the global market with huge opportunities.
The Managing Director stated this at a stakeholders forum of garments, textile and apparel producers tagged “Harnessing the export potential of the Nigerian apparel and garment sector”, held in Lagos, recently.
He was represented by the Acting Zonal Controller NEPC, Lagos, Mrs Evelyn Obidike who stressed that the present administration has launched the Nigeria cotton, textile and garment policy to boost the sector.
The NEPC boss said the global market for textile and apparel is expected to expand drastically, stressing that it is going to be a challenging market full of risks and unbelievable opportunities.
He called on the industry’s stakeholders to take cognizance of skills, competences and key trends to avoid pitfalls, stressing that the council is fully committed to providing necessary assistance for the sector to thrive and increase export as the country has the comparative advantage to increase export of textile and apparels.
The NEPC boss explained that the adoption of agreement in textile and clothing (ATC) by World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1995 has removed quotas on textile and clothing among WTO members which included Nigeria.
Awolowo said that the forum was designed to engage in discourse that will assist both the council and stakeholders to proffer strategies that will enhance the export of Nigerian textile and apparel, stressing that the country’s textiles and garment industry if given the necessary attention will be one of the game changers for the nation’s export drive.
He said NEPC’s effort have been geared towards providing direct assistance to the textile and garment sector, stressing that one of such intervention was the establishment of human capital development centre in Lagos to enhance capacity of the players in the garment industry.
He bemoaned the position of the economically developed countries to have imposed high tariffs and quantitative restruction on export of textile and clothing from less economically developed countries to their countries.
Awolowo assured textiles and garment stakeholders of the council continuous support.
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Blue Economy: Minister Seeks Lifeline In Blue Bond Amid Budget Squeeze

Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy is seeking new funding to implement its ambitious 10-year policy, with officials acknowledging that public funding is insufficient for the scale of transformation envisioned.
Adegboyega Oyetola, said finance is the “lever that will attract long-term and progressive capital critical” and determine whether the ministry’s goals take off.
“Resources we currently receive from the national budget are grossly inadequate compared to the enormous responsibility before the ministry and sector,” he warned.
He described public funding not as charity but as “seed capital” that would unlock private investment adding that without it, Nigeria risks falling behind its neighbours while billions of naira continue to leak abroad through freight payments on foreign vessels.
He said “We have N24.6 trillion in pension assets, with 5 percent set aside for sustainability, including blue and green bonds,” he told stakeholders. “Each time green bonds have been issued, they have been oversubscribed. The money is there. The question is, how do you then get this money?”
The NGX reckons that once incorporated into the national budget, the Debt Management Office could issue the bonds, attracting both domestic pension funds and international investors.
Yet even as officials push for creative financing, Oloruntola stressed that the first step remains legislative.
“Even the most innovative financial tools and private investments require a solid public funding base to thrive.
It would be noted that with government funding inadequate, the ministry and capital market operators see bonds as alternative financing.
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