Owerri Chamber set to kick-off 2022 programme of events

Union, Agents for Citizen Driven Transformation, here in Kano.

“The project which is being coordinated by the British Council is tagged ‘Strengthening Community Engagement towards Peace building and Conflict Management in Kano, Nigeria.’

“The core aim of the project is to contribute to peaceful co-existence among various ethnic and religious groups in the state and the country. And to reduce conflict in the society.

“And one of the trends we have observed during the implementation of this project is the rising urban violence in the state, and country, at large,” he stated.

Providing more insights, Adeniyi hinted that observations have also shown that the violence being experienced in urban areas is also driven by the mounting migration of people from rural communities to urban centres.

He attributed this particular development to the destruction of economic and social means of engagement by bandits, and conflicts connected to herders-farmers.

The CS-CRIN executive director called on both the federal government, as well as the administration of governor Abdullahi Ganduje to put in place policy and programmes to address the unfolding development.

THE OWERRI CHAM BER OF Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (OCCIMA) is set to kick off its programme of events for 2022, Anthony Amadi, its president, a legal practitioner, has disclosed.

Amadi said this is in keeping with his promise during his investiture to to build on the gains already attained by his predecessors.

He had also promised that the chamber’s policy framework, such as membership drive, trade fair, enterprise development centre (EDC), business information/help desk, institution capacity building for policy advocacy, commercial agriculture, would remain and be sustained.

And with increased support for the office and programmes of the women and youth wing of the chamber, which he said is because of the vital role women and youths play in the economic development of the state and to a large extent, the country.

OCCIMA will embark on a 2-day retreat for council members on 2nd-3rd February, 2022. It will also collaborate with the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) for an SME support clinic, which will come up on 9th-10th, February, 2022. OCCIMA will collaborate with the Bank of Industry (BoI) to train its members for easy access to loans, and also, arrange with the Bank of Agriculture (BOA) for agricultural loans and agro business loans.

It will go into collaboration with the Corporate Affairs Commission

(CAC) on new innovation in business registration/businesses to register with the chamber as a prerequisite.

OCCIMA will on March 16-18, 2022 collaborate with the Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation to train its members under business incubation, and work with the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) with the aim of repositioning the members for export of non-oil products business, the training will come on March 29-30, 2022.

Apart from various committees set up by Amadi, the president had started courtesy visits and will on May, 10-13, this year, work with Standard Organisation of Nigeria to train members on products, such as manufacturers, molders, fabricators on standardisation of their products.