To boost patronage of made-in-Nigeria goods, the House of Representatives has passed a bill for second reading seeking to make it mandatory for Ministries, Departments to procure goods and services from local manufacturers and indigenous companies.
The bill titled “Local Industry Patronage Bill, 2024,” seeks to allow for local goods and services to be mandatorily given priority.
The bill aims to give priority to local manufacturers and indigenous companies, and to prohibit the exclusion of locally produced goods in the procurement process.
Rep. Jesse Okey-Joe Onuakalusi, Oshodi/Isolo Federal Constituency II, Lagos State, sponsored the bill and was consolidated with a similar bill by Hon. Obi Aguocha and Hon. Nnamdi Ezechi.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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