Vice president Prof Yemi Osinbajo's wife Dolapo was a guest speaker at the just concluded Shea conference in Abuja.
The event was attended by stakeholders including National Shea Product Association of Nigeria and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bank of Industry (BOI), Shea Origin and many others.
At conference,experts said that shea export has the capacity to fetch Nigeria N3.8bn in foreign exchange earnings.
According to a statement from the organisers, the conference with the theme “Shea sector development in Nigeria – a concerted renaissance,” was organised to emphasise the significant role of Shea in agribusiness.A number of stakeholders from the Shea industry discussed ways of standardising and developing the Nigeria’s shea value chain as a critical arm of the nation’s non-oil export during the two-day conference.Also discussion on how to focus on the standardisation; the $2m USAID/Nigeria Project Development Facility and how it could be accessed to develop the shea value chain was one of the agendas of the conference
