The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the Presidential Council on industrial revitalization.
The council whose roadmap was approved by FEC on Monday will be chaired by President Bola Tinubu.
The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Doris Uzoka-Anite, said the council will have 10 subcommittees that review industrial policies within all government Ministries.
She said: “We have a lot of policies, frameworks, and guidelines that should help to revitalize the industries within these different ministries and agencies. And we’re supposed to collaborate and come up with a single roadmap for each of these subcommittees or each of these roadmaps. And that is actually geared towards developing the full industrial revival of the economy in line with the eight-point agenda of Mr President.
“At the end of this, we expect to see a boost in investment coming into the different industrial sectors.
“We expect to see a boost in job creation and employment and a general increase in our indices, especially our GDP growth rates, which were said to be growing from 3.5 percent hopefully to 7 percent. And the GDP base of about 1 trillion which is in line with Mr. President’s vision.
“It is actually because of how to actualize this that we came up with a roadmap to stimulate industrial growth, especially catalyzing SME growth and in the whole industrial sectors.”
She listed the subcommittees to include the Subcommittee on Consumer Credit, the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchange, the Subcommittee on heavy industries and steel development, and the Subcommittee on trade facilitation and ease of doing business.
Others are the Subcommittee on licensing and certification of artisans, Subcommittee on trade facilitation and realization, Subcommittee on mining and solid minerals, Subcommittee on oil and gas, and Subcommittee on Creative Industries.
She said the subcommittees on defence, industries, and pharmaceuticals were stepped down.
The minister said the council also approved the setup of a committee to review the Free Trade Zone setup.
She said the committee is to “look at the setup, look at incentives, look at the laws and the reforms, and come up with reforms that will help to stimulate and catalyze the economic benefits of the free trade zones and special economic zones.”
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