Nigeria-Brazil Business Summit organisers reel out information details

Organisers of this year’s Nigeria-Brazil Business Summit holding between August 13 and 15, at Everest Rio Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have reeled out some useful details on the summit. Olusegun Akinruli, president/CEO, Nigeria-Brazil Centre for Business, Culture and Co-operation, released the details over the weekend.

He listed the following as partners of the summit: ApexBrasil – The Brazilian Export Promotion Agency; BPI – Brazilian Business Partners Institute; Brazilian Ministry of Economic Development, Industry and International Trade (Ministério de Desenvolvimento, Indústriae Comércio Exterior); Riosoft – Rio de Janeiro Association of Software Exporters; SOFTEX – Agency under ApexBrasil for Internalisation of Brazilian Companies.

“And the following are expected from Nigeria and Brazil at the event which holds at Everest Rio Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between August 13 and 15, 2013: manufacturers; SMEs, farmers/persons who are involved in Agriculture; IT companies; Oil and gas companies, importers and exporters; commissioner for commerce and industry, agriculture; Construction and engineering companies; and people from the financial sector,” he said.

The Chamber is directing individuals and groups to the event website: http://summit.nigeriabrazil.org/en/ so that they download event brochure and get more information. This year’s theme is ‘Brazil–Nigeria: Dialogues for Creating a Collective Platform for Business Co-operation.’

The summit is a follow-up to a trade mission from Brazil organised by the Nigeria-Brazil Centre for Business, Culture and Co-operation, the Nigerian Embassy and the Government of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, which visited the country recently. The Nigerian ambassador to Brazil, Vincent Okoedion led the mission. More than 30 investors from Brazil participated in the investors’ forum in Abuja and Benin. Bilateral agreements were signed by the Rio Grande do Sul government and the Nigerian government.

The Nigeria-Brazil Centre for Business, Culture and Co-operation is a pioneering Chamber of Commerce in Brazil in partnership with the Brazilian Ministry of Economic Development, Industry and International Trade – MDIC, the Nigerian Embassy in Brasília, the Embassy of the Federative Republic of Brazil in Abuja, Softex, the Brazilian Export Promotion Agency – ApexBrasil and BusinessDay Media Ltd.

This year’s summit, according to Akinruli, is organised to create the necessary platform for mutual investments and sustainable bilateral economic relationship between Brazilian and Nigerian business leaders. “The Summit,” he said, “is also an avenue to enable a collective business interaction for the implementation of agreements recently signed between the Nigeria-Brazil Federal Governments. It will also complement the efforts of the Nigerian Federal government to attract Foreign Direct Investments,” he said.