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Nigeria has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening bilateral ties with India.
Dunoma Ahmed, the Permanent Secretary of Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during a meeting with the High Commissioner of India to Nigeria, Abhishek Singh, at the Ministry’s Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, expressed appreciation for the cordial relations between Nigeria and India.
He also said cooperation between the two countries would focus on deepening ties ahead of the India-Africa Forum Summit scheduled for New Delhi in May 2026.
The details of their meeting were disclosed in a statement issued by Kimiebi Ebienfa, the ministry’s spokesman.
Ebienfa noted that Nigeria and India are strategic partners united by shared democratic values and common aspirations for sustainable development and South-South cooperation and highlighted the importance of the forthcoming BRICS and India-Africa Forum engagements in advancing multilateral cooperation among developing countries amid evolving global political and economic realities.
The ministry’s permanent secretary reiterated Nigeria’s interest in increased Indian investments in key sectors of the economy, particularly manufacturing, agriculture, mining, renewable energy, and local value addition and emphasised the need for strengthened collaboration in security and counter-terrorism, especially through technological cooperation and defence capacity building.
Singh said Nigeria, as a BRICS partner country and major stakeholder in Africa, occupies a strategic place in India’s foreign policy engagement with the continent.
“The Government of India looks forward to Nigeria’s active participation at the meetings and in deepening cooperation between both countries in areas of trade, renewable energy, defence, industrialisation, agriculture, and technology,” said Singh.
