Dr. Ezra Yakusak, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council’s (NEPC) Executive Secretary/Chief Executive, has stated that the council remains committed to achieving the economic goals of the current administration in the field of economic diversification.
He emphasized that the agency’s job was to develop and promote non-oil exports in order to diversify the economy and transform it from a monolithic to a healthy economy powered by the non-oil export sector.
He claimed that the NEPC is prepared to establish and maintain a mutually beneficial relationship with members of the fourth estate while speaking at a media retreat for the Commerce and Industry Correspondents of Nigeria (CICAN) in Abuja.
Yakusak said, “This is premised on the fact that as conveyors of information, the media has a critical role to play in not just promoting NEPC activities and programmes but also creating awareness of the opportunities in the non-oil sector and sensitising the exporting community and the general public on the need to embrace export as our only means of survival as a nation.”
He said the council’s “Export4Survival” campaign which he launched on assumption of office represented a patriotic call for all Nigerians to realise the urgency of engaging in non-oil export trade as a viable means of economic growth, poverty alleviation, industrial development and boosting our foreign exchange earnings.
