Abuja, Nigeria — September 3, 2025. The Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), working in strategic partnership with NACCIMA, the Presidential Livestock Reforms Implementation Committee (PLRIC), the Delivery Unit of the Office of the Vice President, and the Ministry of Livestock Development (MLD), convened an expanded Stakeholders Engagement on Livestock Development at the ACCI Business Deal Room. Guided by the NACCIMA Subcommittee on Livestock—established under the leadership vision of Engr. Jani Ibrahim, National President of NACCIMA—the forum brought together more than 50 participants from Nigeria’s public and private sectors alongside ambassadors and high commissioners from Kenya, Belgium, Cuba, Mexico, Indonesia, and Brazil.
The engagement set out to foster multi-stakeholder collaboration, examine the livestock value chain end-to-end, and chart a practical path to sustainable growth. Participants assessed upstream genetics and breeding, midstream ranching and veterinary systems, and downstream processing, cold chain, and export readiness. They also explored investment partnerships to bridge an estimated $50 billion financing gap and discussed institutional frameworks—such as grazing reserves and a dedicated Livestock Academy—to accelerate capacity building, peer learning, and technology transfer. The initiative builds on ACCI’s prior work and the agenda of the NACCIMA Subcommittee on Livestock, chaired by Barrister Agabaidu C. Jideani with members Alhaji Goni Duonoma and Alhaji Sadiq Kassim; Barrister Joe Onyiuke later joined the Subcommittee.
Proceedings opened with keynote remarks from the ACCI Director-General and the PLRIC Chairman and then moved into thematic, evidence-based sessions focused on bankable opportunities. Priorities included genomic selection and semen/embryo banks; localized vaccine production for diseases such as foot-and-mouth and anthrax; scaling artificial insemination coverage from under five percent to 30 percent in five years; and strengthening processing through modular, HACCP-compliant abattoirs and solar-powered reefer logistics. Participants advanced conflict-sensitive ranching models anchored by 10 pilot grazing reserves of about 50,000 hectares each with strong state government buy-in, and they endorsed the development of a Livestock Academy to deliver vocational training and peer-to-peer learning across specialties such as dairy, ostrich and piggery. Trade and market access featured prominently, including pilots for halal beef exports, improved traceability, and dairy import substitution. Value-addition pathways—from hides and leather to biogas—were highlighted for their capacity to generate roughly one million direct jobs within five years. The forum linked these priorities to food and nutrition security and sovereignty, including nutrition profiling and fortification for dairy products and a target of 70 percent local poultry feed by 2030.
Discussions covered multi-species integration across ruminants (cattle, goats, sheep) and poultry (broilers, layers, turkey, ostrich), supported by ecosystem investments in feedlots with capacity expansion to one million heads per year, breeding via embryo technologies, and veterinary services underpinned by antimicrobial stewardship. Nigerian stakeholders included representatives of MLD, PLRIC, the OVP Delivery Unit, the Presidential Food System Coordination Unit, the FCT Secretariat, NIPC, and the Agric Bank, as well as private-sector leaders from ABIS Group, agro-processing companies, farmer organizations, feedlot operators, veterinary pharmaceutical firms, and members of the ACCI and NACCIMA trade groups. International delegates shared models in tropical genetics, dairy biotechnology, and integrated poultry systems, signaling interest in technical collaboration and investment.
A central outcome was the unanimous agreement to establish an Annual Livestock Development Summit, Trade Fair and Exhibition as a standing platform for policy dialogue, investment matchmaking, and technology showcases. Designed by the ACCI Director-General in collaboration with the OVP, MLD, the First Lady’s Concepts, and PLRIC, the inaugural edition will hold in the first quarter of 2026 at ACCI. Governance will be anchored by a multi-stakeholder Secretariat domiciled at ACCI. The partnership set a 10-year investment mobilization target of $50 billion—approximately $20 billion for infrastructure and ranching, $15 billion for genetics and veterinary systems, $10 billion for processing and export capacity, and $5 billion for biotechnology and the Livestock Academy. The Federal Government has already secured $3.5 billion from a Brazilian consortium for dairy ranches and artificial insemination programs, while private-sector actors will lead further mobilization.
Next steps include an engagement with the Honorable Minister of Livestock Development within 14 days to align on policy and regulatory support, a joint session with the Governors’ Forum in the fourth quarter of 2025 to secure state-level commitments, and the unveiling of the Summit’s logo and the establishment of the Secretariat by October 2025. Progress will be tracked through regular reporting led by the NACCIMA Subcommittee on Livestock in concert with the ACCI Secretariat.
