BUY NAIJA TO GROW THE NAIRA: CAN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DO IT ANY BETTER?
--By: Emmanuel Chuddy Aaron. (chuddylondon@yahoo.com) Our Country has been awakened to the need to patronize locally made goods. This move was triggered by a "Made-in-Aba" Trade Fair that held recently in the Nation's capital, Abuja. The locally made products which included shoes were attractively displayed at the Trade Fair. Of course, one can trust our 'elites' in the political space to have patronized the exhibitors by purchasing one or more impressive items. At the Trade Fair, the eyes of our Government officials were not only opened to the 'good things' that the Country's citizens are capable of innovating but they were also forced to become good advertisers and publicists thereof. It was this eye-opening event that motivated a Senator of our Federal Republic to purchase locally made vehicles from Innoson Motors, an indigenous vehicle manufacturing company. After such purchases, they automatically became promoters of the Nigerian identity an...