A Bangladeshi businessman, AKM Fakhrul Alam, who has lived and invested in Nigeria for 27 years, is calling for a formal skills-transfer partnership between Abuja and Dhaka, urging the Nigerian government to bring in Bangladeshi trainers to revolutionize agriculture and textile manufacturing. Alam's plan involves bringing Bangladeshi master trainers to Nigeria to work directly with farmers and potential factory workers. For agriculture, this includes experts in modern hatchery, fishery, poultry, and high-yield crop farming. He projects this could slash Nigeria's $5 billion annual food imports by half within three to five years while creating millions of rural jobs. In textiles, he pointed to Bangladesh's success, where 95% of the four-million-strong factory workforce are women. "Nigerian women are intelligent, hardworking and quick learners. Give them six months of training and they will match or beat anyone," Alam stated, advocating for ga...
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