Participants at a High Level Policy and Private Sector Trade and Investment Facilitation Partnership Forum, have reiterated the need to attract over $2.5trillion investments yearly across competitive industries in order to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Vice President had last week presided over an expanded meeting of the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) in Abuja.

Okechukwu Enelamah, who disclosed this after the expanded PEBEC chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said government was set to launch the second action plan on ease of doing business.

The Federal Government has assured US investors of the favourable investment climate in Nigeria, promising the highest returns on investments, more than anywhere else in the world.

The field of copyright and related rights has expanded enormously with the progress in technology in recent past.

Minister of Trade and Investment Okechukwu Enelamah said there is a need for government and local processors to collaborate to achieve the objectives of the project.

Nigerian filmmakers, TV producers and music labels are now entitled to apply for Pioneer Status Incentives from the Nigerian government. Motion picture, video and television programme production, distribution, exhibition...

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Okechukwu Enelamah, has frowned at the unnecessary bureaucracy and bottlenecks enthroned by the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in dealing with investors at the Calabar Free Trade Zone (CFTZ).

Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah, has been elected the Vice-Chairperson representing Africa, for the 11th World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference.

At a General Council meeting on 26 July, WTO members elected three officials to serve as Vice Chairs for the WTO’s 11th Ministerial Conference (MC11) in Buenos Aires.

Minister of Industry, Trade and Investments, Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah, has stated that the Federal Government is unshaken in its policy of making industrialisation and agriculture the driving force of the economy, to generate employment and attain food security.

Concerned that many operators in the real sector may be facing peculiar challenges that may not be addressed through sector-wide interventions, the Federal Government and Bank of Industry...