Arrivals & Registration

Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo CON

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One -to-One Meetings

Chief Allen Onyema

The event is planned to maximize the value for each participant. A One-to-One meeting is schedule for every investor who indicated interest. The meeting will be between corporate leaders and government delegation, between two or more corporate organizations, corporate organizations and development partners and institutions, inter sectoral and intra-sectoral meetings etc. Networking and one-to-One meetings are specifically arranged to foster strategic connection and cooperation.

Signing of Memorandum of Understanding

High Chief Sen. Dr. Ben Ndi Obi CON

The Summit Organizers plans to ensure that strategic alliances are forged at the Summit. This will be so essential in setting agenda for investment trends in the South East. To this effect, a Memorandum signing session will be provided to celebrate those who are able to strike a partnership deal before and during the Investment Summit.

South East Business Awards Gala

Prince Arthur Eze

This award ceremony which comes towards the end of the Summit is instituted to celebrate corporate organizations and individuals who excel in propagating Business development and investment in the South East Nigeria. Winners of the South East Business Awards shall receive premium branding opportunities during and after the Summit and will be the face of the Summit in the subsequent year.

SEBIS is aimed as tackling the current food shortage in Nigeria and the alarming situation in the South East. SEBIS will bring together agripreneurs, food processors, food manufacturers, buyers, and distributors to engage in improving agricultural production, processing, packaging and distribution in the South East region and in Nigeria. The SEBIS targets are to:

• Secure over USD500m investment portfolio for the South East in agriculture and manufacturing over the next three years.
• Promote partnership through the establishment and reinvigoration of existing community-based Corporative Societies for agricultural production and processing.
• Encourage the farm to market initiative to encourage agricultural production processing, packaging and sales.
• Propel the development of a South East Feed the Future Initiatives, to combat hunger and poverty.
• Ensure the South East businesses are linked to the national, bilateral/multilateral and global economic opportunities

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Manufacturing industries in South East and Nigeria in general are under intense pressure. A lot of them have closed up while others are performing far below their installed capacity. Their products seem not to be competing favourably with imported ones as the system is not protective enough. These challenges have great impact on increasing poverty, unemployment and absence of foreign exchange, leading to continuous crash in the value of the local currency. SEBIS Target:

• Secure commitment of investors and strategic stakeholders to transforming all agricultural products of the region into finished and semi-finished products for distribution within the region and to other parts of Nigeria, West African Sub-region and for possible export out of Africa.
• Secure over USD500m (as targeted above) in Investment portfolio for revitalization of MSMEs engaged in processing of agriculture, raw materials and manufacturing activities within the South East region.
• Ensure that appropriate machines, equipment, high grade molds and other technologies are fabricated, propagated and maintained within the region to reduce dependence on imported machines and spare parts.
• Create platforms for regular provision of extension service to MSMEs in such areas as project appraisals for loan application, training of entrepreneurs, managerial assistance, product development and other extension services.

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Technology is evolving at a greater rate than ever before seen in human history. According to EU Commission by 2025, over 4.3 billion gadgets will be connected and 90% of all jobs will require digital skills. Realizing that the world is in short supply of IT talents, there is urgent need for South East to train and develop its youths to be part of this new hi-tech for the world as manpower on IT innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. Through this, South East shall supply the world with talents that will create capital, build wealth and reduce poverty.  

SEBIS Target:

• Make South East top exporter of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and transform its youths from possible cyber fraudsters (Yahoo Yahoo) to innovators and incubators of ideas.
• Develop the youths to prepare IT strategies, develop software, perform management tasks and manage processes; Identify and define IT-related demands, select the IT-systems that meet those demands and implement them in the different functional units of their establishment.

Synergize Start-Up South East, expected to create 16,000 start-up clusters in 4 years to build youths into entrepreneurs and wealth creators and make them to be the enablers, innovators, achievers and leaders in pushing the region’s development and transition towards a world-class digital economy.

There is a challenge of functional and good infrastructure in the South East and this impaired negatively on business and in attracting investment into the South East. Emphasis will likely be on how Governments and investors will improve and make affordable, system of transportation, energy, telecommunication and waste management all known as hard infrastructure. Also, consolidation on efforts already made on education, governance, health services and emergency services will be sought while pushing for effective access to food, water and shelter.  

SEBIS TARGET:

• Develop a good transport network system of roads and rails that interconnects the South East States.
• Ensure an appreciable increase in power generation and distribution in the South East.
• Catalyze the upgrading, standardization and utilization of key airports in the South East as international gateways to Nigeria.
• Synergize Government to develop the South East Model on Education which will mainstream the Igbo Apprenticeship System and Artisan training, registration and regulation as part of our educational development strategy.
• Attract and develop worldclass medical facilities in the South East through partnership between the Diaspora Investor community and government, to incentivize medical tourism in the region.

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The South Easterners have a locked-up mindset to building expensive mansions and country homes on “cash and carry” and usual out of pocket spending system, that never come so easy. They have placed less emphasis on affordable mass housing for their people who cannot afford to build mansions.  

SEBIS Targets:

• Mobilize through partnerships to deliver 25,000 Housing Units in the South East within the next five years.
• Provide synergy and partnership with mortgage Institutions, real estate developers, building materials manufacturers, distributors and sellers; citizens and residents of the region, as better options for home ownership.
• Partner with Housing Financing Organizations to make available dedicated funds for improved housing construction and Infrastructure support to Housing Estates to make them livable, in the South East region.
• Persuade Governments of the states of the South East to designate certain areas in their State for affordable housing, make acquisition of these lands easy and seamless and promote the policy that all completed houses in the region are occupied within one year of completion.

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Business and investment in South East cannot be effectively promoted if the issue of security is not effectively addressed. The concept of security goes beyond military consideration. It embraces economic, political and social dimension of individuals, family, community, local and national life. It is important to note that security does not absolutely mean absence of conflict, but includes entrenchment of good governance and effective management and involvement of all sectors of the society. When good governance principles are entrenched in a given society, it makes easy the provision of the basic needs of the people including the safety of their lives and property.

SEBIS Target:

• Within the next 8 years, make South East the safest region in Nigeria and a place one will be proud to be born, go to school, grow, work, raise children, retire and have a happy old age.
• Support the security architecture, the judiciary and the custodial centres within the region in the bid to strengthening the Administration of Criminal Justice System Act of 2015.
• Promote investment in technology for security system management and the development and management of region-wide crime database to aid in criminal tracking, investigation and in crime detection, venerability testing and identification of threats.

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Business and investments are usually leveraged by funds from the financial sector. Financial services are the economic services provided by the finance industry and these encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks credit card companies, insurance companies, accountancy companies, consumer finance companies, stock brokerages, investment funds etc.  

SEBIS Target:

• Identify, negotiate and secure funds at single digit interest rates, venture capitals, capital markets, etc. for the development and investment into the South East economy.
• Float and roll out enterprise development and promotion company that will focus and actualize the engineering of corporate business activities in the various pilot/subject states. Such models would aim to create employment and build capacity and sustainability.

Set up a regional and /or investment bank or other financial institution to further stimulate investment and infrastructure development in the South East.