Monthly Archives - December 2024

INVESTJIGAWA HOSTS TWO LINKAGE SESSIONS ON ACCESS TO CREDIT BETWEEN MSMES AND NAIC AND NIRSAL

Follow-up to the second session on access to credit held on 4th November 2024, InvestJigawa has organised two linkage sessions with Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) and Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk sharing for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL). Held on Wednesday 27th November 2024, both sessions were attended mainly by representatives from various private sector associations, including; Jigawa Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (JICCIMA), Nigeria Association of Small-Scale Industrialists (NASSI), Nigeria Association of Small and Medium Enterprise (NASME), and Jigawa [...]

INVESTJIGAWA SHOWCASES STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS AT 4TH AfSNET INVESTMENT CONFERENCE IN KISUMU, KENYA

InvestJigawa participated in the 4th African Sub-Sovereign Governments Network (AfSNET) Investment Conference, held at the Grand Royal Swiss Hotel, Kisumu, Kenya, from 25th to 27th November, 2024. The conference, a collaboration between African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Kisumu County of Kenya, and United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa), had as its theme "Leveraging the AfCFTA for Sustainable Trade and Investment: A Development Pathway for African Sub-Sovereigns," which underscored the vast potential of collaborative trade and investment across [...]

INVESTJIGAWA ATTENDS AREWA ISLAMIC FINANCE SUMMIT ISLAMIC FINANCE FOR REGIONAL PROSPERITY AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

On 27th November, 2024, InvestJigawa attended the Arewa Islamic Finance Summit held in Kano. With the theme “Finance for Regional Prosperity and National Development”, the event focused on the roles and contributions of Islamic finance towards economic empowerment, growth, prosperity and financial inclusion at the regional and national level, specifically in the northern part of Nigeria. The summit identified one the major challenges for economic empowerment in the north as  ignorance about Islamic finance and how well it operates. There [...]

INVESTJIGAWA HOSTS RETREAT TO BOOST EASE OF DOING BUSINESS IN JIGAWA STATE

On November 9, 2024, InvestJigawa held a retreat in Kano, for the Ease of Doing Business Steering Committee.  The event was led by the Deputy Governor Engr. Aminu Usman MNSE, and brought together key organizations like NAFDAC, CAC, FIRS, NASSI, JICCIMA, and MAN, apart from relevant state MDAs. The goal was to review the reforms being carried out to make it easier to do business in Jigawa State, and propose measures that would further simplify processes, cutting down time [...]