Grenada eyes mutual trade ties with Nigeria

Special Advisor to Ambassador Peter De Savary of Inward Investment, Grenada, Richard Hallam has disclosed his country’s readiness to establish a mutual trade ties with Nigeria noting that the relationship would give both countries the opportunity to share and benefit from trade and commerce agreement.

Richard Hallam who was in Nigeria, spoke at the Grenada Citizenship by Investment summit organised by Monarch & Co recently in Lagos. He said: “The whole idea of a chamber of commerce is to share business interest between Grenada and Nigeria.

I don’t know what they are right now, they could be many, it’s something we’re exploring, it’s something that is currently being set up and I’m hoping it’s something very productive.”

Hallam further disclosed that,

Nigeria Concludes Two-year Strategy to Raise Trade with Asia to $80bn

The federal government yesterday concluded an elaborate plan targeted at boosting trade between Nigeria and countries in Asia by 100 per cent in the next 24 months.

The fresh Nigeria-Asia trade strategy was fine tuned last weekend by the officials of the Federal Ministry of Industry Trade and Investment and its parastatals, along with Nigeria’s ambassadors across the Asian countries, in a two-day meeting in New Delhi, India.

The strategic meeting was the first of its kind in over 50 years aimed at brainstorming on a synergy targeted at further improving the trade and investment ties with the 15 Asian countries.

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, told journalists at the end of the two-day meeting that the ministry and the ambassadors resolved to work on