By JKNewsMedia
CROSS SECTOR collaboration is essential to unlocking economic opportunities, creating jobs, increasing productivity and building resilient value chains, Lagos State Commissioner for Commerce, Cooperatives, Trade and Investment, Mrs Folashade Ambrose Medebem, has said.
JKNewsMedia.com reports that speaking through the ministry’s Director of Trade and Industries, Mr Shobayo Dayo, at the MSME Fiesta held on the sidelines of the Lagos Multi Sector Trade Fair, Ambrose Medebem said sectors including agriculture, manufacturing, technology, finance, logistics, creative industries, tourism, real estate and healthcare must work together in an increasingly interconnected world where economic success depends on collaboration.
She acknowledged that the Lagos Multi Sector Trade Fair had brought together entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers who had showcased the state’s economic potential.
The event, held at the De Blue Roof Event Centre, Ikeja, featured exhibitions, keynote speeches and networking sessions.
Ambrose Medebem said the trade fair highlighted Lagos’ resilience and creativity, with participants stressing the importance of collaboration across sectors and industries.
“This trade fair is more than an exhibition of products and services. It’s a marketplace of ideas, opportunities, innovation, partnerships, and enterprise,” she said.
She reaffirmed the state government’s commitment to building a globally competitive economy and said the administration had prioritised economic growth, infrastructure development and technological innovation.
Ambrose Medebem listed government interventions supporting Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, including the ₦10 billion LASG BOI Access to Finance for MSMEs Through Cooperatives programme.
JKNewsMedia.com also reports that the lead speaker at the MSME Fiesta, Dr Bunmi Kole Dawodu, Deputy Director in charge of Strategic Partnership at the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria, identified resilience architecture, digitisation, alternative and blended finance, among other factors, as measures that can build permanence into MSMEs to scale present economic challenges.
Other speakers at the event included Lanre Johnson, Managing Director and Co founder of erpSOFTapp; Akonte Ekine, Chief Executive Officer of Absolute PR; Dr Femi Egbesola, President of the Association of Business Owners of Nigeria; and Shimater Tewase, Marketing Manager at Artech 2000.
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