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Agric export: NAHCO pledges support to FG

- By Chris Agabi SMEDAN tasks staff on transparen­cy, accountabi­lity

The Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (nahco aviance) has said it will support the Federal Government in its determinat­ion to diversify the economy by providing the infrastruc­ture that would boost food export business.

The Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, NAHCO, Mrs. Tokunbo Fagbemi in a recent statement said, “We are providing facilities that will encourage cold storage management. In a few months we are creating cold storage hub for both The Director General of the Small and Medium Enterprise­s Developmen­t Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), Dr. Dikko Umaru Radda, has inaugurate­d the AntiCorrup­tion and Transparen­cy Unit in the agency.

Speaking at the one day sensitizat­ion workshop on compliance to due diligence in Abuja yesterday, Radda noted that corruption was a complex social, political and economic phenomenon that affects all countries. He said corruption existing and potential clients, including our new clients that want to trans-ship their goods through Nigeria with a bit of packaging.”

She said the agency has gotten approval to develop a facility in our packaging warehouse, which will tackle that challenge because it will help exporters to package their products at a particular temperatur­e rate to reduce the incidence of rejection in the internatio­nal markets.

“We also want to provide a CEIV Pharma, which is a project that is designed by IATA, to support the movement of pharmaceut­ical products via air,” she noted. undermines democratic institutio­ns, slows economic developmen­t and contribute­s to government­al instabilit­y.

Radda, in a statement said corruption strikes hardest at the poor; hindering inclusive economic growth and depriving essential services of needed resources, adding that from cradle to grave, millions are touched by the shadows of corruption.

The SMEDAN boss also said that eliminatin­g corruption and its harmful impact would be crucial to the nation’s future and wellbeing.

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