The International Entrepreneurship Community (GEN) Nigeria has introduced a partnership with Tripoint Travels to host the 2026 version of the Arewa Industry Pageant, scheduled to carry from November twenty first to twenty second in Abuja.
The partnership was once unveiled on the Arewa Industry Pageant reception in Lagos, convened to officially release this yr’s pageant and have interaction companions.
A observation by way of Nationwide Coordinator of GEW Nigeria, Olayinka Oguntola, stated the Arewa Industry Pageant is a flagship entrepreneurship pageant held as a part of International Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), a world motion to advertise entrepreneurship.
“The Arewa Pageant is the place we can have over 500 marketers showing their merchandise and folks purchasing from them. International Entrepreneurship Week is an tournament to advertise entrepreneurship, and the Arewa Pageant may be an tournament to advertise entrepreneurship. Because of this we’re partnering with Tripoint Travels to convey this yr’s Arewa Pageant to the sector,” Oguntola stated.
He defined that in contrast to the ultimate version, which was once decentralized throughout all 19 northern states, this yr’s version might be a unmarried, consolidated pageant within the Federal Capital Territory.
“Closing yr we had one amongst 19 northern states. This yr we stated let’s simply have it in only one state, and that might be in Abuja. Let all of the distributors from all of the different states, together with some distributors from southern states, come and showcase,” he stated.
Oguntola famous that the partnership was once pushed by way of a shared undertaking to empower marketers around the nation.
Talking on the reception, Shuhda Mohammed, Convener of the Arewa Pageant, stated the collaboration is geared against leveraging tourism experience to venture Nigeria undoubtedly to the sector.
“We’re right here to convey in combination mavens within the tourism area who perceive what a pageant stands for, so we will promote Nigeria in combination to the sector,” she stated.
At the resolution to centralize the pageant in Abuja, Mohammed defined that the fashion is designed to rotate between a state-wide rollout and a unified convergence.
“The fashion of the Arewa Pageant is that we do it throughout all 19 states after which each different yr we transfer it and convene in a single location. This yr’s location is the FCT. Making an allowance for transferring distributors round because of logistics, we made up our minds to make it one large one within the FCT the place everyone will come in combination and have fun,” she said.
Describing the partnership with GEN Nigeria as “superb,” Mohammed stated GEN supplies a crucial pathway for Nigerian companies to get right of entry to international alternatives.
The Arewa Pageant 2025 is predicted to draw marketers, buyers, vacationers, and tradition fans from throughout Nigeria.
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