SMEs
NBTI Wants Patronage For Made-In-Nigeria Goods
The overseeing Director-General, National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI), Mr Akinwumi Somefun, has urged Nigerians to patronise Made-in-Nigeria products instead of imported ones.
Somefun, who said this in an interview with The Tide’s source recently in Abuja, urged Nigerians to substitute imported goods with Made-in-Nigeria products to boost the Federal Government’s policies on industrialisation and economic growth.
According to him, patronising local goods and services will boost the nation’s revenue and also reduce capital flight.
“It would strengthen the economy and create more jobs for the unemployed. Nigerian products are produced from the locally sourced raw materials which would sustain the supply chains.
“More consumption of our own indigenously produced goods will bring about more employment opportunities, keep the supply chains going and increase economic efficiency and earnings.
“Most of the products we produce in NBTI incubation centres are well packaged, has high quality and exported which earns us foreign exchange”, he said.