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The Nigeria–China Strategic Partnership (NCSP) has reaffirmed its commitment to consolidating engagements with the Organized Private Sector while strengthening strategic collaboration to accelerate Nigeria’s industrial expansion. This followed a high-level meeting with the leadership of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), focused on aligning institutional efforts to deepen Nigeria–China economic cooperation and position Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as primary beneficiaries of trade, manufacturing, and investment initiatives.
Director-General
of NCSP, Joseph Tegbe, stated that the Partnership was established as a
structured coordination platform to drive Nigeria’s strategic economic
engagement with China in a disciplined and result-oriented manner. He outlined
its core mandates, including oversight of FOCAC-related initiatives,
advancement of priority economic initiatives, as well as the facilitation of
catalytic industrial projects across priority sectors. He emphasized that the
next phase of engagement will prioritize harmonization of ongoing initiatives,
stronger inter-agency coordination, and clearer execution frameworks to ensure
Nigerian businesses, particularly SMEs benefit more directly and sustainably
from bilateral trade and investment initiatives.
The
meeting reviewed existing collaborations and investment pipelines, with both
parties agreeing on the need to streamline coordination across federal and
subnational levels to improve policy coherence, enhance implementation
efficiency and eliminate fragmentation to take advantage of scale. Mr. Tegbe
further highlighted the strategic importance of leveraging landmark trade
instruments like China’s Zero-Tariff Agreement with African countries as a
pathway to scale-up domestic manufacturing, deepen value addition, and
strengthen Nigeria’s export competitiveness.
In
his remarks, the President of NACCIMA and Chairman of the Organized Private
Sector of Nigeria (OPSN), Engr. Jani Ibrahim, commended NCSP’s structured
engagement model and its deliberate focus on SMEs as drivers of inclusive
industrial growth. He reaffirmed the readiness of the organized private sector
to collaborate closely with NCSP in mobilizing enterprises, providing
structured policy feedback, and ensuring measurable enterprise-level outcomes
from Nigeria–China economic engagements.
Both
sides identified practical pathways to integrate SMEs into manufacturing value
chains linked to Chinese partnerships; expand agro-processing and value-added
production; strengthen technical and vocational education collaborations to
close industrial skills gaps; and promote the development of geo-cluster
industrial parks capable of anchoring regional manufacturing ecosystems. They
agreed to establish a formal working interface to translate strategic alignment
into measurable results, with defined focus areas including investment
facilitation, SME capacity development, industrial cluster formation, and
export-oriented growth.
The
meeting underscores NCSP’s resolve to convert diplomatic goodwill into tangible
economic gains, expand opportunities for Nigerian businesses and strengthen
productive capacity, leveraging NACCIMA’s network. This aligns with President
Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, which seeks to achieve sustained and
inclusive growth anchored on industrial productivity and private-sector
dynamism.
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