Vice President Yemi Osinbajo launches Leather Products Policy Implementation Plan

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday launched the National Leather and Leather Products Policy Implementation Plan at the Musa Yaradua Centre in Abuja. 6th July 2021.

In 2019, the Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, had inaugurated the “National Steering Committee” to implement Nigeria’s leather products policy.

According to him, “The leather industry is very critical to national growth and development because it will boost our Gross Development Product (GDP) and increase our foreign exchange earnings

“The policy will solve most of the problems hindering the growth of the leather sector and will enable Nigeria to produce shoes, belts and other leather products similar to what is obtained in other developed countries of the world.”

The implementation of the leather policy is believed to be the beginning of the revitalization of the leather sector.