Nigeria Leads West Africa Delegation, Boosts Trade Ties With Malaysia

Nigeria leads West Africa portion to marque a important interaction astatine the Malaysia International Halal Showcase (MIHAS) 2025, organised by the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE), with 25 buyers from the portion participating successful the event.

Notably, 8 buyers are from Nigeria, alongside buyers from Senegal, Mali, and Ghana. The West African delegation reflects a divers premix of companies, ranging from dynamic tiny and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to immoderate of the region’s largest supermarket chains.

Their beingness underscores Nigeria’s aspiration to go a Halal hub for West Africa, driven by the increasing request for halal products and services successful Nigeria, arsenic good arsenic crossed West Africa. It besides highlights MIHAS 2025 arsenic a starring planetary level for planetary sourcing and concern partnerships successful the Halal sector.

The International Sourcing Programme (INSP) successful conjunction with MIHAS 2025, which was concluded connected September 17, 2025, had facilitated much than 4,000 one-to-one concern meetings, matching the 300 planetary buyers from 50 countries, with 600 Malaysian exporters. The generated income from the one-to-one concern meetings unsocial are estimated astatine RM2.5 cardinal ($585.6 million).

The precocious commissioner of Malaysia to Nigeria, Aiyub Omar expressed his happiness to spot the important keen involvement of halal manufacture players successful Nigeria that volition pave the mode for a overmuch faster improvement of Halal ecosystem successful Nigeria successful fewer years ahead.

He mentioned that helium had met a typical from the Presidency successful August 2025 to sermon further connected halal collaboration betwixt Malaysia and Nigeria aft the completion of Nigeria’s halal roadworthy representation which is inactive being finalised. The improvement reflects increasing planetary assurance successful Malaysia’s halal leadership.

“For Nigerian buyers successful particular, their beingness underscores a deeper strategical alignment, with Nigeria besides playing a pivotal relation successful shaping the determination and planetary halal economy,” helium stated.

First Secretary (Trade) of the High Commission, Mr. Jude Bryan stated that the Nigerian buyers’ beardown involvement signals a wide avenue for enhanced collaboration, paving the mode for meaningful partnerships successful the halal sector.

Malaysia’s full commercialized with Nigeria successful 2024 surged by 58.7 per cent, reaching $1.52 cardinal compared to $956.76 cardinal successful the erstwhile year. Exports from Malaysia to Nigeria grew by 5.8 per cent to $550.08 million, portion imports from Nigeria recorded a crisp summation of 121.7 per cent implicit the aforesaid period.

For the play of January to August 2025, full commercialized betwixt Malaysia and Nigeria contracted by 8.7 per cent to $883.82 million. Malaysia’s exports to Nigeria implicit the play grew by 19.9 per cent to $413.24 million. Malaysia’s apical merchandise exports to Nigeria implicit the play were Palm Oil & Palm Oil Based Agriculture Products, Processed Food, Machinery, Equipment & Parts, Printed Manufactures and Manufactures of Metal.