ACCI Launches ‘Buy Africa, Build Africa’ Initiative For 2025 Trade Fair

The Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) has announced the 20th variation of the Abuja International Trade Fair (AITF), which volition beryllium held from September 25 to October 6, 2025, astatine the Abuja Trade and Convention Centre.

The 2025 variation celebrates 2 decades of ACCI’s enactment successful hosting 1 of Nigeria’s largest multi-sectoral commercialized fairs, creating a strategical level for concern growth, investment, and innovation nationally and internationally.

The 20th variation of the AITF volition beryllium held nether the taxable “Sustainability: Consumption, Incentives, and Taxation”, forward-looking taxable that reflects Nigeria’s economical aspirations successful alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), peculiarly SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), and SDG 13 (Climate Action).

Speaking astatine a property league successful Abuja connected Monday, the president of ACCI, Dr. Emeka Obegolu, expressed optimism that the 2025 Fair volition contiguous unprecedented opportunities for businesses, policymakers, and the planetary community.

“The 20th day of the Abuja International Trade Fair is not conscionable a solemnisation of longevity but a objection of the Chamber’s enduring committedness to promoting sustainable concern growth. The Fair remains a premier level for showcasing products, forging partnerships, exploring innovations, and addressing emerging economical realities.

“We are peculiarly excited to motorboat the ‘Buy Africa, Build Africa’ (BABA) initiative, a visionary level designed to marketplace African products and services wrong the continent and globally, portion driving intra-African commercialized and economical empowerment.”

ACCI’s 2nd lawman president and president of the 20th variation of AITF, Dr Aliyu Idi Hong, said 40 countries’ diplomatic practice has been confirmed for the event, portion 20 different countries person indicated involvement successful participating.

The 2025 AITF is expected to pull implicit 100,000 participants crossed 12 days, including representatives from authorities agencies, multinational corporations, SMEs, diplomatic missions, and improvement partners.

Hong said the just volition diagnostic exhibitions to showcase innovations successful trade, industry, agriculture, technology, fintech, sustainable energy, transportation, biology solutions, and originative industries.

There would besides beryllium sheet sessions with cardinal stakeholders specified arsenic the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), FCT Inland Revenue Service, National Council connected Climate Change (NCCC), Ministries of Industry, Finance, Trade, Science, and Innovation, arsenic good arsenic commercialized banks, fintech leaders, and planetary agencies.

He said determination volition besides beryllium a taste and economical showcase spotlighting Africa’s originative industries done music, fashion, art, and integer innovation, alongside concern dialogues and marque activations.

The just volition besides supply a dedicated level for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), recognising their captious relation successful occupation creation, concern growth, and nationalist prosperity.

The Abuja International Trade Fair is 1 of Nigeria’s multi-sectoral commercialized exhibitions, offering unparalleled opportunities for B2B, B2G, and B2C engagements. Strategically located successful the nation’s capital, AITF provides a secure, accessible, and neutral level for forging trade, investment, and diplomatic relationships.

“The ACCI calls connected concern leaders, argumentation makers, investors, innovators, and the wide nationalist to enactment successful this milestone lawsuit arsenic the Chamber works toward gathering a much sustainable, prosperous aboriginal for Nigeria and Africa,” Dr. Obegolu stated.