The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed plans to improve its agenda to diversify the nation\u2019s economy from the oil sector to the non-oil sector, through the launch of a set of policies, noting that it targets to achieve $12 billion in export trade by 2024.<\/p>\n
The apex bank said it was putting everything in place, including the entire chain of export, to make sure it intervenes and gives all the necessary support from the beginning to the end of export to achieve its target.<\/p>\n
Specifically, the Principal Manager, Trade and Exchange Department, CBN, Richard Maikai, said 30 containers of cassava were recently rejected in China, which signified that our laboratories are not testing the goods properly.<\/p>\n
According to him, CBN is already working with the Nigeria National Accreditation System (NiNAS), the regulatory body that oversees all the laboratories, to ensure that all laboratories have the ISO17025 certification without which they would not be accredited.<\/p>\n
He maintained that once the CBN can upgrade and make sure that every laboratory is ISO17025 certified, the county\u2019s export and trade sector won\u2019t have such lose again, and would be on track to achieving its target of $12 billion by 2014.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the GTR Trade Conference yesterday in Lagos, Maikai noted that to boost investors\u2019 confidence, the CBN had ensured relative stability in the exchange rate in the past 36 months.
\n\u201cAny investor would want to know that when they invest their funds, they could be able to recoup the funds back. Though our reserve is marginally increasing, the CBN is ready to defend the Naira, so investors can have access and no restrictions to withdrawals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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