The Delta state government on Monday flagged off the media presentation of Delta state trade fair, tagged “Trade Beyond Oil” which is scheduled to kick off in October in the city of Warri.
Speaking to journalist during the media unveiling, the Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Kingsley Emu noted that trade beyond oil is a need to diversify the state’s economy and that the forthcoming trade fair will key into the vision to actualize it.
He stated that there has not been any trade fair in the state for over five years.
According to him, the theme ‘trade beyond oil’ is coined from the Delta beyond oil vision, which seeks to diversify and develop other areas and natural resources in the state aside oil as a significant percent of the state’s population are employed through in the agricultural sector.
In his remark, the Commissioner for Information, Barrister Chike Ogeah, pointed out that the program is going to affect the state positively which is to diversify the economy as the nation is also moving in the same direction of Nigeria beyond Oil.
During an interview session, consultants to the trade fair, Crown Media Limited, Austin Izagbo, was optimistic that the fair is is going to be a new dimension of trade fair because “it would also be given private investor touch” he stated.
