Vice President Kashim Shettima has praised the African agribusiness giant, Export Trading Group (ETG), for its multi-million-dollar investment drive in Nigeria, projecting the creation of over 6,000 direct and indirect jobs while assuring that President Bola Tinubu’s reforms will provide a secure and enabling environment for the conglomerate’s operations.
Receiving a high-powered ETG delegation led by Global Chief Operating Officer, Niren Murugan, at the Presidential Villa, Shettima described the company’s focus on agro-logistics, fertilizer blending, seed production, industrial processing, and integrated value-chain development as perfectly aligned with the Renewed Hope Agenda’s priority on food security and agricultural transformation.
He urged ETG to deepen its footprint across Nigeria’s rich agricultural belts, assuring sustained government support and partnership.
Murugan disclosed that the company’s expanded edible oil processing plant in Sagamu, Ogun State, will commence full operations by Q2 2026, while new investments in fertilizer blending, certified seed production, and agro-logistics hubs are in the pipeline.
A flagship initiative includes the establishment of seven Centres of Agro-Excellence in Kaduna, Ebonyi, Cross River, Ekiti, Jigawa, Nasarawa, and Borno states.
These regional hubs will provide farmers with quality inputs, mechanisation services, storage facilities, and primary processing capabilities.
The Vice President welcomed the initiatives, emphasising that such private-sector-led investments are critical to achieving the administration’s goals of job creation, import substitution, and agricultural export growth.
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