B2B Digital Trade Enablement Platform Co-investing Under Nigeria's AfCFTA Digital Trade Co-Championship

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What is driving it

• Nigeria co-champions AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol, unlocking preferential cross-border licensing across 54 African markets
• ISA 2025 modernises capital market rules and expands SEC regulatory powers, improving deal-close predictability for equity investors
• FMITI's national mapping identified 200+ digital services firms across 17 sectors, signalling a deep supplier ecosystem for platform aggregation

What could go wrong

• Regulatory fragmentation across ECOWAS jurisdictions can delay multi-country rollout despite AfCFTA framework
• FX repatriation risk persists if CBN liquidity windows narrow during global risk-off episodes

Full analysis

Nigeria is experiencing a decisive investment rebound in 2025–2026, with combined FDI and FPI reaching nearly $14 billion in the first nine months of 2025 — surpassing all 2024 inflows — driven by FX liberalisation, fuel-subsidy removal, and a new Investment and Securities Act (ISA 2025). FDI jumped 700% quarter-on-quarter to $720 million in Q3 2025 alone, signalling growing long-term investor confidence. Non-oil exports surged 21% to $12.8 billion in H1 2025, nearly double the government target, while Nigeria's solar manufacturing capacity hit 300MW backed by $425 million in fresh capital. Nigeria was appointed Co-Champion of the AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol and published its first five-year tariff implementation review. The UK-Nigeria Enhanced Trade and Investment Partnership held its ministerial dialogue in March 2026, reinforcing bilateral momentum in agri-food, digital trade, and creative economy sectors. The government's 2026 investor playbooks identify solid minerals, digital trade, the creative economy, and climate-smart green industrialisation as priority vectors, and the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) ranked 5th among the world's top-performing stock exchanges in 2025.

Nigeria was appointed Co-Champion of the AfCFTA Protocol on Digital Trade (alongside Kenya and South Africa) in 2025 and hosted regulators from Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, and South Africa at the AfCFTA Digital Trade Market Access Roundtable in Lagos, creating a direct regulatory on-ramp for cross-border digital service platforms. The new Investment and Securities Act 2025 (ISA 2025) strengthened the capital-market regulatory framework, and Flutterwave secured a Nigerian banking licence to offer credit and savings — signalling that digital financial infrastructure is now deep enough to support B2B trade-finance and e-commerce middleware plays.

Market drivers:

• Nigeria co-champions AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol, unlocking preferential cross-border licensing across 54 African markets
• ISA 2025 modernises capital market rules and expands SEC regulatory powers, improving deal-close predictability for equity investors
• FMITI's national mapping identified 200+ digital services firms across 17 sectors, signalling a deep supplier ecosystem for platform aggregation

Risks:

• Regulatory fragmentation across ECOWAS jurisdictions can delay multi-country rollout despite AfCFTA framework
• FX repatriation risk persists if CBN liquidity windows narrow during global risk-off episodes

Sources

What the analysis was built on. Some rows hold a headline, some hold the address of the report; both are printed as filed. We do not host the originals.

• www.vanguardngr.com/2026/01/nigeria-attracts-14bn-in-foreign-investments-in-first-nine-months-of-2025-fmiti/
• www.legal500.com/developments/thought-leadership/understanding-foreign-direct-investment-regulations-in-nigeria/
• businessday.ng/business-economy/article/2025-a-remarkable-year-for-nigerias-industry-trade-investment/
• nairametrics.com/2025/12/30/nigerias-fdi-jumps-to-720-million-in-q3-2025-highest-this-year/

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