“BusinessTalk” – A Trade and Investment Webinar Series

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Overview:

The Monthly Webinar, brainstorming on Prevailing Trade, Investment, and Economic Challenges Across the U.S.-Nigeria Business Axis is a platform designed to facilitate discussions, exchange of ideas, and collaboration between key stakeholders in the business communities of the United States and Nigeria. The webinar aims to address the current challenges, opportunities, and trends impacting trade, investment, and economic relations between the two countries.

The U.S.-Nigeria business relationship is a critical one, with both countries being key players in the global economy. However, there are several challenges that hinder the full potential of this relationship. This monthly webinar aims to address these challenges and provide insights and solutions to foster stronger trade, investment, and economic ties between the two countries.

Objective:

The main objective of this webinar series is to facilitate dialogue and collaboration between key stakeholders in the U.S. and Nigeria to address the prevailing trade, investment, and economic challenges. By bringing together experts, policymakers, and business leaders, we aim to identify opportunities for growth and development across the aisle, particularly Nigeria.

Format:

The webinar will be held every third Sunday of the month at 7:30pm WAT (2:30pm EST), starting on April 21, 2024. Each session will feature panel discussions, presentations, and Q&A sessions with experts from either country. Topics will range from trade policy and regulations to investment opportunities and economic trends affecting the U.S.-Nigeria business axis.

Audience:

This webinar is targeted at business leaders, policymakers, academics, and anyone interested in the U.S.-Nigeria business relationship. Participants can join from anywhere in the world, making it a truly global platform for dialogue and collaboration.

Schedule:

  • Frequency: Monthly
  • Date: Every third Sunday of the month
  • Time: 7:30 pm WAT (2:30pm EST)
  • Starting Date: April 21, 2024

Platform:

The webinar will be conducted on Zoom, allowing participants to engage in real-time discussions, ask questions, and network with industry experts, policymakers, and business leaders. In addition, the webinar will be live-streamed on YouTube to reach a wider audience and enable viewers to access the discussions remotely.

Key Topics:

Each webinar session will focus on a specific theme related to trade, investment, and economic challenges across the U.S.-Nigeria business axis. Some of the key topics to be covered include:

  • Bilateral trade relations
  • Investment opportunities and challenges
  • Regulatory frameworks and policies
  • Market trends and analysis
  • Business strategies and best practices

Target Audience:

The webinar is open to business professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, researchers, and anyone interested in exploring opportunities and overcoming challenges in the U.S.-Nigeria business axis. Participants from both countries are encouraged to join the discussions and contribute their insights and experiences.

Benefits:

  • Gain insights from industry experts, policymakers and thought leaders.
  • Network with key stakeholders in the U.S. and Nigeria business communities.
  • Explore new opportunities for collaboration and partnership.
  • Stay updated on the latest trends and developments in trade, investment, and economic relations.

Resource persons

Discussants and participants will be Subject-Matter-Experts from an exclusive pool of seasoned trade experts, active players in the export value chain (exporters of goods and services, lawyers, bankers, forwarding agents), regulatory authorities and Trade Support Institutions, international agencies and development partners, Nigerians in the diaspora with passion and flair to contribute to national economic rebirth, etc.

EXPECTED OUTPUTS AND OUTCOMES

By the end of the webinar series, we aim to have a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities in the U.S.-Nigeria business axis. We hope to generate actionable insights and recommendations that can inform policy decisions, investment strategies, and business partnerships between the two countries.

The outputs of the Trade Webinar series are expected to include:

  1. Report: A summary of key findings and policy recommendations distilled from each session, combinations of sessions, papers and keynote speeches.
  2. The webinars’ proceedings, incorporating relevant comments and feedback from peer review and webinar participants, may be published after the episode or quarter.
  3. Presentation of these findings and recommended solutions will be made to relevant governments agencies, ministries and parastatals as well as other identified stakeholders.
  4. A special task force will be created to track the results of the webinar series.

Join us for the inaugural Monthly Webinar on Prevailing Trade, Investment, and Economic Challenges Across the U.S.-Nigeria Business Axis on April 21, 2024, at 7:30 pm WAT (2:00pm EST). Together, let’s build bridges, foster collaboration, and drive sustainable growth in the U.S.-Nigeria business axis.

1-Day Agribusiness & Commodities Exports Boot Camp, Atlanta. GA

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Description

Are you an Immigrant who has been in the U.S. for a while and need to explore lucrative opportunities? Are you an African immigrant looking to create a profitable business bridge back home? Or you are young graduate or budding entrepreneurs? Perhaps you are a veteran businessmen and women who need to expand your business portfolio, new business breakthrough? Are you an IT professional and need to “retool?” Ready to get your own piece of the pie in international trade, especially in Africa. The time is NOW!

Now you can have every information you need to operate a profitable Agribusiness, Export / Import business. YES, you can EARN 35%-100% Returns on investment for EXPORTS / IMPORTS in

  • 40 SOLID MINERALS
  • 30 AGRO-COMMODITIES AND OVER
  • 20 FOOD STUFF

Attend an intensive Agribusiness bootcamp in Export Management, designed to equip industry professionals with solid foundation in global strategy, resources in export management, market analysis and tangible tools on how to move goods for international export, the right way

The objectives of the bootcamp are to expose participants to the ‘Bolts and Nuts’ of exporting and develop strategies for success in a global economy.

BENEFITS / MODULES

Discover the Secretes of Successfully Exporting 44 Solid Minerals 33 Agricultural Commodities 22 Food Items

  • Fundamentals of Export Business Practices
  • Marketing & Pricing of Export Business Products
  • A-Z of Agric Commodity Export
  • A-Z of Solid Mineral Export
  • Understanding export business finance
  • Sourcing and negotiating export contracts
  • Strategies for International Distribution & International Sales Channels
  • Terms of Payment, Trade Barriers, and Free-trade Zones

Reasons why you should attend the 2-Day bootcamp

  • You get practical knowledge on export business
  • How to source for buyers for your products
  • You learn how to mitigate international trade risk and fraud
  • ICT :60 Trade Sites where you get Foreign buyer daily.
  • Access to Export product you can export duty-free to the U.S.A. underAGOA.
  • How to detect and avoid international trade scams and fraudulent importers.
  • Where/How to Source Products Locally
  • The guaranteed, tried and tested way to get paid by overseas clients.
  • The risk involved in the food stuff/agro exportation and business and how to avoid it effectively
  • Step-by-Step Guide on How to Start Exporting on a Small Scale Immediately after the workshop with case studies of products you can start with,

Training benefits:

1) Free: blog/website design for every participant

2) Loan/finance from local & international banks for genuine export contract

3) All participants will be assisted in securing export license

4) Participants will be assisted in export product registration with NAFDAC.

5) free mentoring until you become an exporter

6) free export planning

7) you will be connected to prospective buyers abroad.

Agribusiness remains a Gold mine that is full of untapped opportunities. Only the people who seek knowledge, information and understanding will be the ones that prosper in this age, Therefore, come and be trained, be informed, get understanding and prosper.

Unlike other export trainings where participants are left alone after the training, the 2-Day Agribusiness Export Boot Camp will continually follow up and mentor all participants until they succeed. The training will focus on practical ways how to start on a very small scale with local products and foodstuffs you can source for around you (for as low as $750) and sell for up to 900% profits.

We will also show you to start export business from the comfort of your bedroom with the use of our cutting-edge technology, that will connect you to buyers abroad automatically.

Fee:

This is a FREE introductory Agro-Exports Bootcamp. No meals included. Additional materials and training at cost.

E-mail: info@usafricatradesummit.com, www. usafricatradesummit.com

Instructors.

  1. Godwin Oyefeso – Lead Instructor (https://usnagris.com/portfolio-item/mr-godwin-oyefeso-president-success-edge-for-entrepreneurial-development-seed/)

At the end of this workshop, all the attendees will be able to understand the export business challenges and how to overcome them, handle documentations without stress, they will be equipped with skills needed to effectively market and sell their products to buyers abroad, they will be empowered to anticipate the risks inherent is export business and design different strategies to mitigate them.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1-day-agribusiness-commodities-exports-boot-camp-bowie-maryland-06-30-2019-tickets-64032550081

Nigeria Diaspora Investment Summit

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The maiden Nigeria Diaspora Investment Summit (http://www.ndis.gov.ng) concludes at the Presidential Banquet Hall Abuja today. U.S.- Nigeria Trade Council was well represented. It was a very successful event

It’s been an excellent platform for forging powerful relationships, consolidating existing alliances, building new friendships and exploring mutually beneficial businesses and viable trade and investment opportunities.

Two members of the U.S.- Nigeria Trade Council leadership are also members of the NDIS Organizing Committee, working closely with Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa. http://www.ndis.gov.ng/

The summit immensely achieved its objectives to harness the substantial but unexplored skills, capital and technical know-how of Nigerians abroad, match investors with viable projects, and being together significant stakeholders Nigerian economy, including the Organized Private Sector; Government Agencies and Foreign Development Partners.

The feedback from the summit as well as the number of successful B2B matchmaking has been overwhelming.

It’s a full house with “densely populated” vim and vigor, with renewed determination to excel in personal space, across the isles, to the benefits of ourselves, our country and succeeding generation of Nigerians. The business space is so broad. We can all succeed together, and reap the riches, the richness of our diaspora sojourn.

Iyalode Alaba Lawson Leads NACCIMA To Atlanta Summit

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Nigeria moves up 24 points on World Bank Ease of Doing Business index

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The World Bank on Tuesday said that Nigeria now ranked 145th  out of 190 countries in the Ease of Doing Business index for 2018

The World Bank stated this in its just released Ease of Doing Business report titled, “Doing Business 2018: Reforming to create jobs”.

The report indicated that Nigeria had moved up by 24 points from 169th position on the 2017 ranking and also 170th position on the 2016 ranking to 145 in the World Bank’s 2018 report.

According to the World Bank, Nigeria alongside El Salvador, India, Malawi, Brunei Darussalam, Kosovo, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Zambia and Djibouti are the top 10 improved countries worldwide, after carrying out numerous reforms to improve their business environments.

“These economies together, implemented 53 business regulation reforms across 10 of the areas measured by doing business.

“Overall, the 10 top improvers implemented the most regulatory reforms in the area of getting credit, starting a business, dealing with construction permits and paying taxes,’ the report said.

Details of the report revealed that Nigeria now ranked 130th out of 190 countries from its 138 position in 2017, in terms of Starting a Business and 147th from 174th in 2017  in terms of Getting Construction Permit.

According to the report, the country also moved from 180 position in terms of getting electricity in 2017, to 172nd position in 2018 ranking.

Similarly, on the Registration of Property ranking, the country moved from 182nd position in 2017 ranking to 179 in the 2018 ranking.

The World Bank also stated that Nigeria made the greatest stride in improving access to Getting Credit. It moved from 32nd position in 2017, to 6th position in 2018.

On Paying Taxes ranking, the Country moved from 182nd position in 2017 to 171 in 2018 and on Enforcing Contracts, it moved from 139th to 96th position in 2018.

However, the report showed that the country was retrogressing in the Resolving Insolvency ranking, going from 140th position in 2017, to 145th in 2018.

According to the World Bank, 83 business reforms were carried out in Sub-Saharan Africa in the past year, surpassing the previous 80.

“The Sub-Saharan Africa region continues to struggle in the area of getting electricity. On average, obtaining an electricity connection takes 115 days in the region, compared to the global average of 92 days.

“The reform effort in Sub-Saharan Africa is singularly worth celebrating, as the region is beset with myriad crises, including conflict and violence.

“We hope to continue recording the region’s successes in enabling entrepreneurship to address the challenge of job creation, particularly for the region’s millions of young women and men,” the bank said.

Following the country’s 169 ranking on the 2017 Ease of Doing Business index, The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) was set up in July 2016 by President Muhammadu Buhari.

PUBEC was mandated to remove bureaucratic constraints to doing business in Nigeria and make the country a progressively easier place to start and grow a business.

Already, several reforms directly impacting on business owners have been implemented by Ministries, Agencies and Departments with the support of PEBEC.

On Starting a Business, business incorporation process can now be done mostly online on the CAC’s Company Registration Portal

The need for lawyers, accredited agents and chartered secretaries has been made optional, reducing the cost of registration of companies

Timelines for company registration have been revised as follow: Approval for reservation of names (12 hours); Incorporation of companies if application form is completed and required documents available (24 hours).

PEBEC had also succeeded in getting priority bills, including the National Collateral Registry Bill and the Credit Bureau Services Bill passed to make it easier for businesses to get access to credit.

It also simplified the Visa-On-Arrival process to include e-submission of applications to dedicated desk at Nigeria Immigration Service and also eliminated manual baggage searches at airport.

 

http://cityvoiceng.com/nigeria-moves-up-24-points-on-world-bank-ease-of-doing-business-index/

Celebrated Georgia farmer, John McCormick to receive Nigerian Agribusiness delegates

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The US-Nigeria Trade Council USA is pleased to announce that Mr. John McCormick, the eminent “2016 Georgia Farmer of the Year “will be attending and making a presentation at the forthcoming US-Nigeria Agribusiness Investment Summit & Expo, November 16-18, 2017, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

In a Town- Hall format, interactive session, Mr. McCormick will share his highly successful farming experience and advanced techniques at the Summit.

The organisers in a statement explained that John McCormick has been a leader in using innovative farming practices to reduce production costs and increase yield.

“He has been able to successfully use variable rate irrigation, global positioning system guidance and conservation tillage to improve his crop farming and was one of the first farmers to test the Irrigator Pro peanut irrigation scheduling method that was developed by the USDA-Agricultural Research Service.

“His yields have consistently been well above average and his early and successful adaptation of modern and progressive agricultural practices have led him to become an efficient and highly productive farmer leading to winning the prize”.

McCormick:“Being a farmer has been a blessing, and from it I have learned responsibility and leadership”.

Through research partnerships with UGA Extension and several agricultural supply companies, McCormick works to provide better farming methods not only for himself, but for other southeast Georgia farmers as well.

Over his 42-year career, McCormick has never stopped experimenting and trying to make his operation better. He is looking forward to sharing his experience with attendees at the US-Nigeria Agribusiness Summit on Saturday November 18, 2017.

A guided informative tour of the expansive farms of Mr. McCormick has been scheduled for Thursday November 16, 2017, where delegates at the Summit will have first-hand experience of techniques of modern farming. Nigerian farmers and stakeholders in the agricultural sector are expected to be part of the 3-day conference.
Registration is still open for the US-Nigeria AgriBusiness (Non-Oil) Investment Summit. USNAGRIS 2017 (www.usnagris.com) scheduled for November 16-18, 2107 at the prestigious Hilton Atlanta Airport Hotel, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.

 

SOURCE: http://citybusinessnews.com/celebrated-georgia-farmer-john-mccormick-to-receive-nigerian-agribusiness-delegates/