Invest in Nigeria, Mrs. Akeredolu urges industrialists

By Mary Agidi
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Wife of the Ondo state governor, Arabinrin Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, has called on Nigerian captains of industries to establish companies in their places of origin, in order to enhance industrial development.

She made the call while inspecting JOYFAD Pharmaceutical Laboratory, Oba-Ile, Akure, established by an Oka-Akoko-born man, Ojuloge Ayodele, who came back home to establish the company, despite spending most of his career years in the eastern part of Nigeria.

Commending the Managing Director of JOYFAD, Mrs. Akeredolu noted that if successful Nigerians come back home to invest, youths and the unemployed won’t need to wait for government jobs and appointments.

She emphasised the need for industrialization by encouraging the younger ones to engage in productive activities and venturing into the production of local contents to produce finished goods.

Mrs.  Akeredolu expressed the possibility in the production of raw materials needed for pharmaceutical works, in order to reduce dependence on imported materials.

She affirmed that the desire of Ondo State governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, to make Ondo an industrial state was doable if indigenous citizens could emulate JOYFAD.

The wife of the governor, however, commended Ayodele and stressed the need to engage the young graduates of Biology and Chemistry to join the company in the production of local contents.

The Managing Director of the Laboratory, Pharmacist Ojuloge Ayodele, affirmed that about 18 products of the company have been approved by the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration Control, NAFDAC.