The Nigerian Export Promotion Zone Authority says it has generated the sum of over N1.8 billion as revenue from January 2024 to date.
The Managing Director of the Agency, Alhaji Mu’azu Musa-Sahabi, disclosed this during an investors/stakeholders forum held at the agency in Kano.
He said the objectives of the stakeholders meeting was to brainstorm on how to move the free trade zone forward.
The Direction General noted that the meeting would fine tune modalities and ideas with the aim collaborating efforts together to achieve the stated objectives.
” We want investors to have clear understanding of the free trade zone,because most investors though thar the free trade zone is a terminal.
“We want them to understand that this is an industrial area,we want them to come and establish enterprise so that our youths will be employed”
Musa-Sahabi added that the agency for the first time in history has generated over N1.8 billion Naira as revenue in the last Eleven Months.
Mr Phrabu Dorai, an agro export Marchant and Alhaji Adulrasheed Nasidi, a producer of various export materials applauded the commitment of NEPZA in providing enabling environment for investors, stressing that they’ve provided over three thousand jobs.
The meeting was attended by investors,industrialist , security and other Stakeholders