The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Doris Anite, reiterates President Bola Tinubu’s government’s commitment to boosting businesses in Nigeria.

Ms Anite said this in a meeting with the chargé d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy, David Greene, and his team on Thursday in Abuja.

“As you know, the current administration is business-focused and is very big on making sure that we preserve and protect our democracy. We try to preserve and protect our free market system, support growth and industrialisation, and support economic development through trade investment, whether its local investment or foreign direct investment.

“The federal government is doing all it can to make sure that all the different sectors of the economy is stimulated and catalysed to achieve the mission,” she said.

Ms Anite said the support was in the area of trade facilitation, standard trade development facility, technical and financial support for digital trade.

Ms Anite said other areas were trade intelligence units, the development of the cotton industry, and the technical support and capacity development for the Nigeria Customs Service.

The minister said there was a need for the country to be transformed.

Mr Greene expressed the desire of his government to deliberate on the private economy system, saying, “We work together as one team that is a foreign commercial service, a foreign agriculture service, USAID colleagues.

“I am joined here by two colleagues from the economic team. We have the U.S. Trade and Development Agency in the country. We have the World and Communist Corporation in the country, and numerous other agencies that we can reach back to in Washington, D.C.”

The American diplomat added, “We are eager to work together in all of those areas, so that we can look for opportunities to be in trade, investment, commercial as well.”

(NAN)