Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, has called for a total ban on all foreign goods that can be produced in Nigeria.
The Minister, who said this yesterday, while addressing a news conference at the State House, Abuja, also said the federal government had been working round the clock to move the nation from a resource-driven one to a knowledge-driven economy.
Mamora, who suggested the ban as part of ways to protect local productions and inventions, regretted that most of the inventions by agencies under his ministry were lying fallow because there had been a drought of investors and investments.
Royal Times reports that The minister emphasised the need for Nigerians to be aware of the local inventions and desire them, and for investors to be willing to embrace the products and get them introduced to the consumers’ market.
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