Newly-elected President and Chairman of Council, National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN), Mr. Idorenyen Enang, has pledged to improve collaboration between the institute and marketing professionals in the nation’s academia, so as to further reposition and enhance the quality of marketing practitioners in the country.
Enang made the call even as experts have suggested that there were huge opportunities for businesses which have suffered adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic to turn around their fortunes with the support of marketing practitioners.
Speaking in Lagos weekend after being sworn in as the Institute’s new president and chairman of council, he explained that one of the priorities of his administration would be to fully engage marketing professionals in the academia and ensure they contribute more to the capacity development programme of the institute.
DIT Nigeria hosts Virtual Sector Showcase
UK investors prepare to explore Nigeria’s creative sector as DIT Nigeria hosts Virtual Sector Showcase.
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27 May 2021
From 18-19 May, the UK’s Department for International Trade (DIT) hosted a series of webinars that presented an overview of Nigeria’s creative sector in partnership with:
The British Council
Association of Independent Music (AIM)
Music Publishers Association (MPA)
The event was supported by some of the leading names in Nigeria’s creative economy, including Obi Asika, Audu Maikori, Ade Bakare, Mai Atafo, Zulu Oyibo, Edi Lawani, Moses Babatope and Adenike Ogunlesi.
It explored the commercial potential of 3 major sectors – music, film/ TV and fashion/ beauty, and highlighted the trade and investment opportunities of Nigerian creativity to prospective investors and businesses from across the UK with an agenda that spoke to its challenges, leveraging potential, and partnership opportunities.
By Onuwa Lucky Joseph
The 2021 class of the annual WeForGood 100 Women ‘Creating a Better Africa’ was announced recently to sustained applause for those recognised. And as expected, some perennial heavyweights made the list who will make any list of accomplished women worldwide – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Amina Mohammed, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liya Kebede, and Mo Abudu being a few of such names.
This year’s list was made against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic which has wreaked havoc as it streaked its way across countries of the world. Women, in their different capacities as health care workers, caregivers, community organisers and innovators have tended to be directly in the path of the pandemic and so have found themselves carrying even more burden than the usual overload they are used to on behalf of the rest of humanity.
• Fewer than 25 of over 300 textile companies in operation
• Why Nigeria cannot export raw cotton despite boom
• With consistent policies, Nigeria has huge potential, says Ogunlesi
• WTO exposed Nigerians to cheaper textiles
Despite years of intervention, Nigeria’s textile industry is a departure from the ideal, owing to challenges of huge appetite for importation, poor patronage, policy implementation and a broken value-chain.
According to stakeholders, if only 10 per cent of the yearly import bill of $4 billion textile fabrics is re-invested into the textile industry, the country would be a net exporter and expand its revenue from programmes like the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) of the United States.