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Border Closure: Cassava Gaining More Industrial Relevance

Β Nigeria’s closure of its land borders will increase industrial use of cassava and other local agricultural produce, the National Cassava Processors and Marketers Association (NCAPMA) has said.

The Administrative Secretary of the association, Dr Bola Asiru, said on Tuesday that the border closure and its attendant increase in the cost of imported raw materials had positioned cassava as a priority crop for industrial use.

Asiru spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

He noted that though Nigeria was the highest producer of cassava, governments did not give it priority attention in the past.

Asiru said that

Innoson Vehicles Gaining Momentum Despite Challenges

Innoson Vehicles Gaining Momentum Despite Challenges

Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing Co. Ltd, the first indigenous vehicle manufacturing plant in Nigeria, Chief Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma, spoke on how he has been able to weather the storm in the industry and the prospects.

How durable are your products compared to imported ones?
Innoson products are durable. InnosonΒ products are as good asΒ  Japanese products, with Mitsubishi engine or some American products. It is not purely a local technology yet, because the engines of the vehicles are still being imported from places like Japan and America. It has all the advantages of Made-in-Japan