The forthcoming Ogoni Business Summit has received a big boost as one of the high profile guests, the Rwandan Ambassador to Nigeria, Stanislas Kamanzi is due to arrive Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital in the next couple of days.
The Ogoni Business Summit, which is being organised by the Ogoni Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (OGCCIMA), in collaboration with the Rivers Entrepreneur Investment Forum (REIF), is scheduled to hold on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 in Port Harcourt.
The Summit, which is the first of such fora planned by the OGCCIMA, is aimed at deliberately attracting investments and businesses to Ogoniland and Rivers State.
President of the OGCCIMA, Adoage Norteh, who announced this in Port Harcourt on Friday, August 5, 2022, said “the Ogoni axis is a fertile economic corridor for investments in Agriculture and other related businesses”.
According to Norteh, who is a former Executive Chairman of Rivers State Internal Revenue Service (RIRS), “Rwanda is a practical example of an African country that had emerged as a success story in Agricultural economy, and are also earning foreign revenue in that wise”.
“We are optimistic that the visit of the Rwandan Ambassador would provide a boost and avenue for Ogonis to copy ideas from the model that had made Rwanda to emerge as a leading global destination in Africa.”
Also speaking, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the Ogoni Business Summit, John Yowika said expressed optimism that the Ogonis would welcome opportunities and investors for collaborations in the area, stressing that Commerce is a thriving venture in the Ogoni axis, particularly, in the agricultural sector, but at a subsistence level.
Yowika stressed that in the present circumstance of absence of oil and gas activities in Ogoniland, that agricultural business had provided sustenance, noting that it is time to move it forward from a mere occupation to a business activity.
This is awesome as it is going to open doors for great Agricultural development and businesses and it’ll take Agriculture from subsistence farming to industrial farming in the area.
This is the way to go. I call on all Ogonis both at home and in the diaspora to come together to develop the enormous potentials we have in the agricultural sector. When we develop it from mere subsistence to commercial viability, we can create value addition for foreign exchange earnings. Some of us have already attracted the platform and licenced by the Federal Government to create the enabling environment to support this strategy
Thanks you so much but the vanue
This is a great opportunity for the Ogoni people. Kudos to Chief Norteh, President of the Chamber for enabling this type of advancement in Ogoni economic development.
This is a great achievement for the Chamber and enviable opportunity for the Ogoni people. Kudos to Chief Norteh, President of the Chamber for facilitating this opportunity. Let us make good use of it.
There is vast acreage of land in northern Khana bordering on the border of Abia and Akwa Ibom states that could provide the much needed land for commercial agriculture.
It’s a good dream.Thanks to the organizers.
Kudos to the organisers of this event. I pray that the latent agricultural potential of our people will be tapped, courtesy of this summit. Potentials that exist in palm oil and palm kernel production; cassava and yam farming, pumpkin leaf, etc. Fish farming is also agriculture. The crisis of 1993 and environmental degradation have destroyed all the fishing ports we had in Ogoni, as far as I know. Yet we have the Atlantic Ocean at our backyard. I hope this summit can revive this fishing industry for Ogoni. It used to be one of our strong point. Thanks. Again, KUDOS to the organizers
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