ECOWAS Craft aims global acceptance

ECOWAS Craft aims global acceptance
Obiora Ani, Abuja

Nigerian and West African Craft are to be developed to make them more financially meaningful and win global acceptance.

The new patron of the World Women Trade Fair, Nigeria and West Africa-ECOWAS Region, Senator Helen Esuene, said this while accepting the invitation to head ECOWAS regional body of the organization in Abuja, Nigeria.

Senator Esuene, who chairs the Senate Committee on Women Affairs and Youth Development in Nigeria, said that the World Women Trade Fair would act as a veritable platform to develop and market Nigeria and ECOWAS Craft such as pottery, raffia works, leather, beads, cane, textile, bronze, wood and stone globally.

She promised to uphold the primary objectives of the organization which are in the areas of mentoring, skills training, advocacy and innovative business efforts.

Earlier, the Regional Director of the World Women Trade Fair, Mrs Adanma Ogumka, while conferring the honour to the Senator from Akwa Ibom State in Southern Nigeria, said Senator Helen Esuene, would join other notable world leaders on a trade mission to the US with the theme; “Building Cultural Economy and Trade on Multi-Sectoral Job Creation and Wealth Generation”, later in the year.

Mrs Ogumka said the goal of the trade mission was to identify policy recommendations to help in the development of Nigeria and ECOWAS cultural economy in line with the African Growth and Opportunity Act, AGOA.

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