UBA Partners LCCI on LagosTrade Fair

The United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, and the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry(LCCI) have gone into partnership to organise the 2019 edition of the Lagos International Trade Fair.

The Fair, which holds between November 1st and 10th, 2019, is the 33rd edition and was expected to provide an avenue for networking and other business opportunities that would assist to catapult business activities in Africa’s largest and busiest city, Lagos and in Nigeria.

UBA, explained in a statement that it would be working together with the LCCI to provide a veritable platform intended to grow both domestic and international trade.

It further presents participants and visitors with opportunities to seal medium and top business deals, the statement added.

According to the statement, “in line with UBA’s unflinching support to the growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the bank is giving a 20 per cent discount to its small and medium business customers who register to attend the fair,” the statement further stated.

UBA’s Group Head, Marketing, Mrs Dupe Olusola, who expressed excitement at the partnership, noted that the bank, with its extensive spread across Africa and other major economies of the world, is always on the lookout for partnership opportunities that will benefit the business environment and the economies where it operates.

Olusola, noted that the bank was delighted as this year’s Lagos International Trade Fair was coming after a very successful organisation of UBAmarketplace by the Bank in Abuja, where over 120 SMEs from 20 African countries exhibited their products, attracting over 50,000 footfalls.