The Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) Nigeria has introduced a partnership with Tripoint Travels to host the 2026 version of the Arewa Business Festival, scheduled to maintain from November twenty first to twenty second in Abuja.
The partnership was unveiled on the Arewa Business Festival reception in Lagos, convened to formally launch this 12 months’s competition and interact companions.
A press release by National Coordinator of GEW Nigeria, Olayinka Oguntola, mentioned the Arewa Business Festival is a flagship entrepreneurship competition held as a part of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), a worldwide motion to promote entrepreneurship.
“The Arewa Festival is where we will have over 500 entrepreneurs exhibiting their products and people buying from them. Global Entrepreneurship Week is an event to promote entrepreneurship, and the Arewa Festival is also an event to promote entrepreneurship. This is why we are partnering with Tripoint Travels to bring this year’s Arewa Festival to the world,” Oguntola mentioned.
He defined that not like the final version, which was decentralized throughout all 19 northern states, this 12 months’s version might be a single, consolidated competition within the Federal Capital Territory.
“Last year we had one in all 19 northern states. This year we said let’s just have it in just one state, and that will be in Abuja. Let all the vendors from all the other states, including some vendors from southern states, come and exhibit,” he mentioned.
Oguntola famous that the partnership was pushed by a shared mission to empower entrepreneurs throughout the nation.
Speaking on the reception, Shuhda Mohammed, Convener of the Arewa Festival, mentioned the collaboration is geared in direction of leveraging tourism experience to venture Nigeria positively to the world.
“We are here to bring together experts in the tourism space who understand what a festival stands for, so we can sell Nigeria together to the world,” she mentioned.
On the choice to centralize the competition in Abuja, Mohammed defined that the mannequin is designed to rotate between a state-wide rollout and a unified convergence.
“The model of the Arewa Festival is that we do it across all 19 states and then every other year we move it and convene in one location. This year’s location is the FCT. Considering moving vendors around due to logistics, we decided to make it one big one in the FCT where everybody will come together and celebrate,” she said.
Describing the partnership with GEN Nigeria as “amazing,” Mohammed mentioned GEN gives a vital pathway for Nigerian companies to entry world alternatives.
The Arewa Festival 2025 is predicted to entice entrepreneurs, buyers, vacationers, and tradition fanatics from throughout Nigeria.
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