Manufacturing stakeholders have charged the new president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to prioritise revival of real sector and textile industry, if he must achieve his
Noting that his planned creation of one million jobs would be a mirage without addressing electricity and multiple taxation, they appealed to him to create ease of doing business.
This is even as they noted that, the federal government should strive to bring down prices of food stuff in order to prune rising inflation which has reached almost 40 per cent not minding the figure given by Nigerian Bureau of Statistics. The stakeholders described the wrong figures from NBS as unreliable and economic fraud to be under feeding the general public with outdated statistic figure.
Speaking at the just concluded programme, organised by Commerce and Industry Correspondents Association of Nigeria {CICAN}, Organised Private Sector {OPS}, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria , the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agnculture , Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi and others, the stakeholders charged BAT to, within his first 100 days in office, embark on how to achieve creation of jobs as he promised.
On her part, Barrister Toki Mabogunje, who also is the third female president and immediate past president of Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry {LCCI}, charged President Bola Tinubu to come out by appointing and put people with round peg in round holes.
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