The Minister of Trade, Investment and Industry, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole, has called on Nigerians to embrace locally made products as a pathway to economic growth, job creation, and national development.
Speaking on Monday during an inspection tour of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) facilities along Kubwa Expressway, Idu Industrial Area, and Abuja Technology Village, Dr. Oduwole emphasized the importance of “buying what we produce and producing what we consume.”
She underscored the government’s commitment to promoting local content through existing partnerships, including with the Bureau of Public Procurement, and praised NASENI’s role in driving research, innovation, and manufacturing.
Highlighting the alignment of NASENI’s work with the President’s Renewed Hope Agenda, the Minister commended the agency’s Executive Vice Chairman (EVC), Khalil Suleiman Halilu and his team for delivering market-ready products, attracting investment, and establishing plans for more factories.
She also recalled a past trade mission to China where NASENI secured letters of intent, noting the tangible progress since then.
“The energy, strong planning, and commitment to knowledge sharing here are commendable,” Dr. Oduwole stated. “This model balances academic research with commercialization and is a template for Nigeria’s economic development. It will help accelerate non-oil exports, productivity, and competitiveness.”
The Minister reaffirmed the administration’s focus on stabilizing the economy, improving access to capital, enhancing the ease of doing business, and attracting investors through initiatives such as the Domestic Investor Summit, new tax regimes, and targeted trade policies.
In his remarks, the NASENI EVC reiterated the agency’s focus on domestication and delivering high-quality, competitively priced products.
He revealed that NASENI has established 28 factories across the country and developed 40 locally made products, urging the media to spotlight Nigeria’s progress.
NASENI EVC stressed the agency’s dedication to domestication and producing high-quality, competitively priced products.
He urged the media to highlight Nigeria’s progress and development potential.
Both leaders expressed optimism about the nation’s economic outlook, describing the current stability as a pivotal moment toward achieving the goal of a $1 trillion economy.
The tour comprised visitation to: raw material area; extraction preparation area;
plastic injection production area; medical equipment area and products shipment area among others
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