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Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has sensitised cooperative societies and other groups in Kwara State to embrace non-oil export promotion to boost the Nigerian economy.
Executive Director of NEPC, Mr Olusegun Awolowo, in a keynote address at a stakeholders’ forum on “Developing the Nigeria Agricultural Value Chain for Export through Effective Cooperative Society Formation and Management” in Ilorin, Kwara State, said that dependence on oil to boost the economy was no longer viable.
Awolowo, represented by the Regional Coordinator, North-Central, Mr. Samson Oluwole Monehin, said that cooperative society is a veritable tool in propagating and increasing export trade.
“An endeavour which may be difficult to achieve by an individual is easily dispensed by a group of individuals in the spirit of cooperative society. Cooperative society, therefore, plays an increasingly important role worldwide in poverty reduction, facilitating job creation, access to credit, economic growth and social development,” he said.