Non-oil sector critical to Vision 2020

KWARA State Deputy Governor, Afolabi Ogundeji, has canvassed the need to develop the non-oil sector of the nation's economy if Nigeria wants to make the list of 20 leading economic powers in the world by year 2020.

Ogundeji, who said the nation has paid lip-service to the development of agriculture as an alternative to oil, added that Nigeria might also fail to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The deputy governor spoke yesterday at the stakeholders' forum on "Moringa Oleifera" in Ilorin. The programme was jointly organised by the state office of Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) and Kwara State Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (KWACCIMA).