Organisation Rallies African Countries On Trade Investment Partnership

A private sector organisation that specialises in fostering cultural and economic ties between African nations, known as Style-De-Vie, is calling on African diplomats, investors and governments to invest within Africa to generate better monetary value for the continent and create a robust trade and investment partnership between member countries.

The creative director of the Organisation, Rebecca Tabe, was speaking at a press conference organised in commemoration of Style De Vie’s high-level networking event, to be held for diplomats, business executives, government organisations, and notable stakeholders in Abuja.
Tabe, who revealed that their event will deal with issues that create an unhealthy atmosphere for business executives and investors to thrive also boasted that recent interactions between her organisation and the Nigerian government detailed a new initiative to slash 90 per cent of customs duties for traders trading within African nations to ensure that investors in Africa get tangible value on investors. At the same time, the citizens also benefit from indigenous commodities at reasonable rates.

“There are so many investment opportunities in Africa, and a lot of us are not able to harness it. And many people continue to withdraw their money from Africa. They take it out there because they feel there are more developed countries there. However, the truth is that if we continue like this, it will not only be detrimental to our future but also to our economy. And we can see that many African nations are desolate, literally empty. Many people in Nigeria are leaving. Why? Even as much as we want improvement in our nations, there’s just one way that things can actually get better, and that is with investments”.

“So what are we trying to do? We aim to foster trade and investment partnerships among African nations. We are trying to ensure that investment actually takes place in Africa. And this event here is not a symposium, it’s not a summit, it’s not a conference, but it is a high networking event, which we are breaking the barriers between the investors and the diplomats, she said.