Nigerian Inyang elected head of global oil palm body

By Gabriel Ewepu
ABUJA — Nigeria’s oil palm industry has received a boost with the election of the President of the National Palm Produce Association of Nigeria, NPPAN, Amb. Alphonsus Inyang, as Chairman of the General Assembly of the World Coalition of Oil Palm Smallholders, WCOPS.
Inyang was unanimously elected at the coalition’s General Assembly held in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, during the International Oil Palm Smallholders Forum.
The General Assembly is the highest decision-making organ of WCOPS, a body established by the Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries, CPOPC, with the support of the governments of Indonesia and Malaysia, Solidaridad, the Roundtable on Sustainable Pa...