PESHAWAR: Nigerian Excessive Commissioner in Pakistan, Mohammad Bello Abiyoe, has stated that prospects are very excessive to enhance bilateral financial and commerce cooperation between Nigeria and Pakistan. He, nonetheless, confused the necessity for elimination of current bottlenecks in enhancing commerce quantity between the 2 international locations.

The envoy expressed these views whereas addressing members of the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Trade right here on Friday. He stated Nigeria and Pakistan had been having fun with cordial political and diplomatic relations.

He stated that at current commerce quantity between the 2 international locations was very low that ought to be improved by making the most of the out there alternatives. He stated that establishing business-to-business contacts, launching joint ventures, utilising sources and taking advantages from one another’s experiences at optimum degree was want of the hour.

The Nigerian excessive commissioner assured the SCCI members that there can be no drawback to them in visa issuance and invited them to make investments in potential sectors in Nigeria. He stated the impediments to mutual commerce wanted to be addressed by a joint mechanism.

Earlier, the chamber’s senior vice-president Shahid Hussain known as for strengthening bilateral commerce relations between the 2 international locations. He invited the Nigerian traders to make funding in potential sectors like gasoline, oil, marble, mine, treasured and semi-precious stones, and so on in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

He stated that KP was a gateway to the Central Asian Republics (CARs) and requested the Nigerian traders to provoke joint ventures and take full benefit of this chance to get easy accessibility to the CARs market.

Revealed in Daybreak, October twenty second, 2022