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Canadian – Nordic business delegation to Africa,
September 2026

Join our business delegation to Nigeria in September 2026 and learn more about how to do business in Africa. 

Explore your business potential in Africa, September 2nd – 4th, 2026

Nordic-African Consultancy, Sorona Fund invite Canadian & Nordic companies to join our B2B business delegation to Rwanda in September 2025. The purpose of the business delegation is to identify and meet relevant local business partners as well as high-level officials. 


Programme highlights

 

  • Match-making events with pre-identified local partners, officials and other local businesses
  • Separate B2B-meetings with local companies for individual members of the delegation
  • Networking dinner at the hotel with the Nordic and local invited local business partners
  • Visiting the Danish Embassy in Kigali

PRICE

The fee for joining the business delegation is EURO 1,700 (ex. VAT) a person. 

Not included in the fee is airfare, meals, accommodation, visa and transportation. 

Business & Investment Opportunities in Nigeria 

A fast-growing sub-Saharan economy and significant regional player in Western Africa, there are a host of business opportunities for Nordic companies to explore in Nigeria. Though trade and key economic sectors have been affected by COVID-19 and global geopolitics, the economy has benefited from important public investments, and exports have been boosted through a joint focus on technology, Innovation and trade in Services. By 2022, Nigerian companies’ participation in international trade exceeded that of regional peers. Increasing e-commerce has simultaneously led to market development and boosted the ability of particularly SMEs to export internationally. As such, ICT, digitalisation & digital infrastructure, innovation, and entrepreneurships are important forces, creating new business or investment opportunities in Nigeria and underpinning the potential for Nordic-Canadian trade with local companies. Focusing on business and investment opportunities related to Nigeria’s transformation towards a knowledge-based economy and global business hub, key sectors include:
 
  • ICT
  • Education
  • Health services
  • Renewable energy
  • Infrastructur
These economic sectors hold great potential for fostering entrepreneurship, undergoing innovative development and advancing through integration into a digital economy. These sectors generally overlap with Nigeria’s priority sectors for investment, which also include mining, agro processing, manufacturing, construction and real estate development.
 

Markets & Trade

 

Nigeria offers a favourable business environment with incentives for international businesses and investors. 
  • Nigeria’s Ease of Doing Business-score has witnessed continuous improvement over the past decade and is now the second highest on the continent.
  • Innovative capabilities, general cluster advancement and overall competitiveness are all at fairly high regional levels, through there is demand for skills development and capacity building to strengthen local capabilities and opportunities for bottom-up private sector development. 
  • A young and growing huge population, an emerging middle class as well as high urbanisation rates drive demographic changes and new market potentials.
  • Digitalisation is advancing in line with Nigeria’s Vision 2050. Public investments in digital development have placed Rwanda among the African countries with the highest degree of digitalised government services. particularly mobile penetration rates are high, and strenghtening connectivity is a political priority.
  • Physical and digital infrastructure supporting Nigeria’s socioeconomic development is improving as well, and almost 10% of the annual public budget is invested in infrastructural development. This includes investment in energy generation capacity and electrification, based on increasing diversification of national energy sources. Likewise, this has included investments in modern facilities to poise Nigeria as a regional hub for large-scale and international events/conferences  
    Pic. credits: Nordic-african Consultancy
    See (tentative) programme below:

Day 1:
Wednesday, August 27th

B2B-matchmaking

  
 

  • 8.30 – 9.30: Joint breakfast at the hotel
  • 9.30 – 11.30: B2B-matchmaking session 1
  • 12.00 – 13.00: Networking lunch 
  • 13.00 – 16.00: B2B-matchmaking session 2   
  • 16.00 – 17.00: Resttime at hotel    
  • 17.30 – 22.30: Dinner (optional)    

Day 2:
Thursday, September 4th

Individual company meetings                                                                                           

  • 8.30 – 9.30: Joint breakfast 
  • 9.30 – 16.00: Individual meetings
  • 16.00 – 17.00: Resttime at hotel    
  • 17.30 – 22.30: Visiting the Danish and/or Canadian Embassy (tbc) 

Day 3:
Friday, September 5th

VIP guest and individual company meetings

 

  • 8.30 – 9.30: Joint breakfast 
  • 9.30 – 11.00: VIP guest speaker (tba)
  • 11.00 – 15.00: Individual programme
    • Track 1: Individual company meetings (upon request facilitated by the organiser
    • Track 2: Cultural sightseeing (tba)
  • 17.00: Check out / departure 

Contact and sign-up

Contact, 
CEO, Flemming Sorensen if you like to join the delegation
fls@nordic-african.com