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Cross River To Build Garment Industry, Rice Mill, Others

The Cross River State government has concluded plans for the establishment of a garment industry, cocoa processing plant, rice mill and modular refinery. The Governor … Continue reading Cross River To Build Garment Industry, Rice Mill, Others


Garment-Industry in Cross RiverThe Cross River State government has concluded plans for the establishment of a garment industry, cocoa processing plant, rice mill and modular refinery.

The Governor of the State, Senator Ben Ayade, hinted about the planned projects on Thursday at a meeting with heads of commercial banks and financial institutions operating in the state held at the Exco Chambers of the Governor’s office in Calabar.

Other investments he said would be established are in the petroleum sector, pharmaceutical sector, Marine transport, Poultry and Afforestation.

He stated that the projects were all geared towards creating numerous job opportunities to reduce the level of youth unemployment in the state.

Governor Ayade urged the Banks’ representatives to have a shift from solely managing the states Internally Generated Revenue and payment of workers’ salaries to identifying with any of the programmes of his administration and to also follow through to its actualisation.

He expects the banks to send in proposals on how they will key into the vision to ensure that the new town, which the state intends to build, no matter its size, beats other existing towns within Nigeria.

The Cross River State government is looking to make the state a business hob not only in the South-South geopolitical zone but within the Western and Central Africa sub-zones.

It is a big dream, but the Governor said it was achievable.