Firm seeks partnership with airlines in Nigeria to drive cargo exports, imports

Crenov8 Consulting, a leading management consulting and digital firm in Dubai is seeking to partner with airlines operating in Nigeria to help grow exports and imports of air cargoes.

Speaking during the launch of its 3rd Edition of Meet the Farmers’ Conference, (MTFC), an agrotrade promotion event, Bola Oyedele, Organiser, MTFC, said partnerships with airlines is one of the initiatives the company has been pushing for.

“We have been to a lot of meetings with the government, banks, and airlines. We have told them of our intention to drive cargo exports. We want to know the measures we need to put in place. We started talk with Ethiopian Airlines and we went to Ethiopia for this reason. Ethiopia Airline operates a lot into Nigeria and we want to start taking ago products from Nigeria to Dubai.

“We have started talking with Air Peace that is already going to Dubai and we have told them the opportunities there. We have been discussing with Air Peace even before they

started going to Dubai. Flight to Dubai on Air Peace is cheaper when compared to other airlines.

“I believe the partnership will yield a very positive outcome because it will also boost their operations. With the Meet the Farmers Conference, this will further boost their operations. We know the government will do their part but while we are still waiting for them to do their part, we are going to do our own part,” Oyedele explained.

Speaking on government’s support, she said, “We know that the government is doing their best but we have been talking to them. What we want to achieve is having a better bilateral agreement with the UAE government. This will be a start in this journey. A minister will not sit down with the director of a ministry. A minister will sit with a minister to negotiate; a governor will sit with a governor to negotiate.

“So, the more we keep pushing for this, the more our voices are head. The bigger the Meet the Farmers conference gets, even the government will get involved. Someone in the government has said we are doing the work of the Nigerian embassy in the UAE because the work of the embassy is to find markets for the country in other countries and we are already doing that.”

Crenov8 will on 27th and 28th of November, 2019 host the agribusiness gathering- Meet the Farmers’ Conference (MTFC). Now in its third edition, the conference is a first of its kind agro-trade and networking conference connecting Africa with the Middle East with an aim to connect large scale agro commodity producers to buyers alike.

Themed ‘Creating a sustainable future: Food Security, Trade and Technology,’ the event is anchored on Crenov8’s big vision to sustain agriculture and food production by facilitating trade and promoting technology use in agriculture.

After two years of making a substantial impact, the conference continues to push the borders of agro-trade activities, export promotion and technology innovation in agriculture across Africa.