The Executive Director/CEO of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr Olusegun Awolowo has said exporting is a necessity to both individual entrepreneurs and the survival of the country.
Awolowo disclosed this at a capacity building workshop on international market requirements for agro-commodities in Lagos yesterday.
He said the need to ensure continuous inflow of foreign exchange (forex) into the Nigerian economy cannot be over-emphasized especially now that the COVID-19 pandemic is negatively affecting Nigeria and the world.
“We are all living witnesses to the challenges the 2020 global crash in oil price has created in the implementation of the year’s budget apart from the distortions and structural imbalance we have seen in the past,” he noted.
Mr Samuel Oyedipo, the Regional Coordinator, NEPC Southwest Office in Lagos who represented Awolowo, said, “Most of our products suffer rejection because people are not aware of the quality standard required for those products to access the international market.
“This project is to enlighten exporters and prospective exporters to be aware of what is required of them for them to be able to approach relevant agencies that would give them certificate of quality of their products so that it will not have a problem of rejection,” he said.
