Dubai exhibition: Ogun DG, Nigerian bizwomen to showcase home products
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NIGERIA: SOME group of business women in Nigeria are set to storm the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend a trade fair where they would showcase their skills and products to the international community.
The business team, which the Ogun State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Yetunde Onanuga promised to lead to the Arab
nation next month, is to participate at the event under the aegis of NACCIMA Business Women Group (NAWORG).
Onanuga, who declared state government’s support to promote women initiated trade ventures and projects, said government would not shirk in its duties of supporting women group and traders in ensuring adequate care of their business efforts.
She spoke in Abeokuta when members of NAWORG, led by the President, Chief (Mrs.) Alaba Oluwaseun Lawson, paid her a visit where she was decorated as the group grand patron.
The deputy governor also assured the women that she would attend the 6th edition of the Nigerian Women Entrepreneurs Exhibition, scheduled for MKO Abiola Stadium, Abeokuta.
The exhibition, with the theme “Promoting women entrepreneurs through networking” would hold between December 7 and 16, 2015.
Onanuga, while saying that she was extremely grateful to be a woman, stressed that to train a woman is to build a nation.
She enjoined the women to be fully determined in their focus and avoid anything that would stand ahead of them while facing challenges.
Earlier, Lawson, who is the Iyalode of Yorubaland, expressed gladness in the decision of the deputy governor to support their efforts.
Lawson requested the help of Onanuga in ensuring the success of the proposed exhibition, and stressed that members of the group have meaningful contributions to make to the economic growth of the state.
The group president, who is the owner of Lawson Group of Schools, stressed that the group mandate include sensitizing and raising awareness among local business women within the chamber movement and their business women group in the West African sub region.
She added that such women must be those who show keen interest in trade matters.
