STAKEHOLDERS PLAN TO HOST COCOA SUMMIT IN ABUJA
If the information reaching Tectono Business Review is anything to go by, stakeholders in the non-oil sector are collaborating to hold the first summit on cocoa next Monday at the Abuja Sheraton Hotel. Tectono Business Review is ready to partner with the stakeholders in galvanizing the summit.

According to our source, the chairman of the Cocoa Processors Association of Nigeria (COPAN), Mr. Dimeji Owofemi, said the association planned the summit because it observed that the government had begun to listen to the calls for the revival of the non-oil sector.

According to him, COPAN moved to revive the industry by organising the first summit with the theme: Cocoa Value-Addition in Nigeria, in collaboration with three other major cocoa associations in Nigeria – Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CFAN), Cocoa Exporters Associations of Nigeria (CEAN) and Cocoa Association of Nigeria (CAN).

The co-ordinating consultant for the conference Mr. Femi Boyede said it is a strategic design to position Nigeria to regain its lost glory in the non-oil export, starting with cocoa.

Boyede, who is Koinonia Ventures Managing Director, said: “With the cocoa summit, we can be sure that the issues confronting the cocoa business in Nigeria will be a thing of the past.”
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