PESHAWAR: Nigerian Excessive Commissioner in Pakistan, Mr Mohammad Bello Abiyo stated prospects are very excessive to additional enhance bilateral financial and commerce cooperation between Nigeria and Pakistan, nonetheless, he underscored the necessity of eradicating bottlenecks in enhancing current bilateral commerce quantity between the international locations.

Mr Abiyo was addressing members of Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Business throughout a gathering, chaired by the chamber’s senior vice chairman Shahid Hussain right here at SCCI’s home on Friday.

Ejaz Khan Afridi, vice chairman of the chamber, former senior vice chairman Imran Khan, former vice chairman Abdul Jalil Jan, government members Lala Badshah, Munawar Khurshid, Kashif Amin, Javed Ahmad Khan, and Ihsanullah, Shams Rahim, Rashid Iqbal Siddique, Naeem Qasmi, Zahoor Khan, Aftab Iqbal, Waris Khan Afridi, Faiz Rasool, Waqar Ahmad, Ayub Sethi, Ishtiaq Muhammad together with merchants, industrialists, importers and expoerters have been current in a big quantity.

The Nigerian Excessive Commissioner who was accompanied by Chairman of the SCCI Standing Committee on Schooling, Saboor Sethi visited the chamber home throughout his handle to members of the enterprise neighborhood stated Nigeria and Pakistan have cordially loved political and diplomatic relationship.

Nonetheless, he stated commerce and financial quantity between Nigeria and Pakistan could be very low, which needs to be improved by taking full benefit of obtainable alternatives and bringing these relations to a brand new peak by institution of enterprise to enterprise contacts, launching of joint ventures, using all assets, potentials and one another’s experiences at optimum degree.

Mr Abiyo emphasised the necessity to take away hurdles, particularly issues which have been confronted by the enterprise neighborhood of the each international locations on precedence foundation. He added that the difficulty of worth non-competitiveness needs to be resolved as quickly as attainable.

The Nigerian HC assured the SCCI members that there can be no downside to them in visa issuance and invited them to make investments in potential sectors in Nigeria. He burdened the impediments in the best way of mutual commerce wanted to be addressed by a joint mechanism.

Shahid Hussain, whereas earlier addressing the assembly, referred to as for additional strengthening bilateral commerce relations between Pakistan and Nigeria.

He invited the Nigerian buyers to make funding in potential sectors in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa like Fuel, Oil, Marble, mine, match, valuable and semi-precious stones and different as large alternatives can be found for funding within the province, which needs to be exploited effectively to spice up up bilateral commerce between the 2 international locations.

SCCI senior workplace bearer stated KP is gate-way to Central Asian Republic (CARs) from the place, Nigeria manufacturing merchandise would simply export the central Asian international locations through Afghanistan, subsequently, he requested, Nigerian buyers to provoke joint ventures and take full benefits from this gold alternative and get quick access to Central Asian Republics market.