The first Nigeria Industrialization Summit and Expo scheduled to begin on Monday (November 15, 2021) at Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja as part of concerted plans to bolster national development, has been postponed.
The postponement was announced on Friday afternoon by the organisers on the advice of the Ministry of Budget and National Planning.
No reasons were adduced for the postponement even as the organisers have yet to indicate when the summit and expo will hold.
But there were indications that a new date will be announced in due course.
Before the sudden postponement, arrangements had been perfected by the Summit and Expo organizers, namely the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and Jesse Export Processing Zone and Anchors (JEPZA) to leverage AfDB’s initiative and Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones’ Programme (SAPZP)
With a theme: “How Nigeria can feed, clothe and house herself,” the four day-event, according to JEPZA anchorperson, Prince David Iweta who had spoken on behalf of the organisers, “supports President Muhammadu Buhari’s desire and aspiration of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in ten years as a solution for unemployment, hunger, poverty and insecurity.”
