Osinbajo To Commission Kogi Fashion Shared Facility »

All is now set for The Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN to commission the state-of-the-art Fashion Shared Facility in Kogi State, on Monday, 22 May, under the National MSME Clinics Shared Facility Scheme.

In a press release Signed by Yemi Balogun, Information Officer, Kogi Enterprise Development Agency where she hinted that the commissioning and handing over of the largest Fashion Industry in the North-Central Region would take place in Okene Local Government Area where the Facility is sited.

According the Fashion Shared Facility is a partnership between the Government of Kogi State and the Federal Government aimed at fostering collaboration amongst MSME Fashion Designers in Kogi State as well as providing an enabling environment for the fashion sub sector in the state to grow into serving the international markets.

“The world-class facility will as well provide small and medium-sized fashion businesses with access to high-quality equipment, and resources at affordable costs and provide training and technical assistance to entrepreneurs to help them grow and scale their businesses”.

The Information Officer noted that the Kogi Fashion Shared Facility is equipped with high quality machines which includes, Four and Two Heads Monogram Machines, Digital and Industrial Suit and Shirt Button Hole Machines, Button Tackers, Coil and Tinko Machines.

Others are Industrial Straight, Weaving and Hemming Machines, Industrial Pressers, Steam and Pressing Irons, Over-locking and Basin Machines, Industrial Button Holes Locking Machines Phoenix Machines, Digital Flix & Flock Cutting Machines and 6 Head Screen Printing and Borderless Machines to mention but a few.

Quoting the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Kogi Enterprise Development Agency (KEDA), Hajia Rekiya Onaivo Sanni who said that the initiative which is facilitated by her agency is highly transformational. She added that the agency took delivery of 200 world-class manual and fully automated fashion equipment with a capacity to service 350 MSMEs daily and 110,000 yearly.

Hajiya Rekiya noted that the Fashion Shared Facility is purposely designed to reduce bottlenecks and provide practical and immediate responses to challenges faced by fashion designers as well as foster collaboration amongst them.

She urged prospective beneficiaries to see the project as an enterprise-friendly initiative that will promote economic growth and create job opportunities in Kogi.