The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said the leather products industry will generate more than $1bn by 2025.

Osinbajo said it would also create over 700,000 jobs for Nigerians.

He spoke on Tuesday at the inauguration and sensitisation workshop on the National Leather and Leather Products Policy Implementation Plan, in Abuja, according to a statement signed by Adetayo Otuyemi and Maryam Zakari of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The statement said, “The Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, said that the leather products industry will generate over $1bn by the year 2025 and create employment for over 700,000 people.”

“Prof. Osinbajo said that the leather products value chain will afford Nigeria over 70 per cent increase in foreign exchange earnings in a few years from now.”

He said the implementation of the leather products policy was holistic, adding that it would provide a more sustainable infrastructure development plan and guaranteed access to credit facilities for business people.

“The Federal Ministry of Science and Technology is supporting this important initiative through offering leadership in the transformation of our economy from a resource-based to a knowledge-and-innovation-driven one,” the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, was quoted as saying.

He said the policy would be effective in helping the country exploit its natural resources, earn and conserve foreign exchange, and create jobs.

The minister called on key stakeholders to join forces in boosting the leather industry.

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Ogbonaya Onu suppose to be the most trendiest minister in this ICT age, but I don't even know what the man has been doing in that ministry and it's 6+ years plus, the ministry can even boost of making Pencil

This leather committee was inaugurated in 2019, but yet, we don't know what has been achieved.

With what I'm seeing here, this leather business would do alot in boosting our economic growth. What a good initiative. Nice one Mr Vice President

This will help the Nigerian economy a whole lot by providing jobs, boosting income.

So leather is de problem de country is facing now,,,,,, nd dis an call himself pastor, waf an abuse 2 pastorship........

Yet
All the federal road that leads to Abia
The highest leather cluster in West Africa is being neglected
Why the ones that leads to Sahara desert, and Boko Haram headquarters is being tarred and retarded almost every year...

Nigercity:
Yet
All the federal road that leads to Abia
The highest leather cluster in West Africa is being neglected
Why the ones that leads to Sahara desert, and Boko Haram headquarters is being tarred and retarded almost every year...

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Leather works can't be discussed without aba

Let's be realistic to ourselves .


Aba should be our fashion n leather works capital

Ponmo provides sustenance to an uncontrolled population

Lie Lie we will not agree

Its dead on arrival..They want to covert our kpomo to leather