The Nigerian Export Promotion Council has over 60 proprietors of Small and Medium-scale Enterprises in Osun State on how to make their products fit for export.
The workshop, which was held in Osogbo, was tagged ‘Facilitating strategic export market access programme in collaboration with the trade support institutions.’
The Assistant Director, Policy and Strategy Department, NEPC, Aliu Saddique, said the participants were SMEs owners with the potential to export to the international market.
He said, “We have discovered that the European market is the toughest market. We are using the model developed by the CPI to train our SMEs for them to be able to operate at the international market.
“We are also targeting the Africa Continental Free Trade Area. It is meant to equip 60 selected SMEs that have potentials for export with all they need to know about it.”
The Osun State Commissioner for Commerce, Cooperatives, Industries and Empowerment, Dr Bode Olaonipekun, called for serious planning ahead of the time when crude oil would no longer bring revenue for the country again.
