FIC Report (Kano State) – The Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Mehmet Poroy, has expressed commitment to strengthening the bilateral trade and investment opportunities in Nigeria, with potential windows to increase the total volume of trade flow presently standing at $2 billion.
Poroy made the commitment yesterday when he led top Turkish private investors on a business visit to the Kano Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (KACCIMA) in Kano.
Also, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has reiterated Nigeria’s commitment to operationalising its cooperation agreements and Memoranda of Understanding with Turkey.
The Turkish envoy explained readiness to widen the window of business and investment network with private and public organisations in Kano to actualise the existing bilateral MoU between the two countries.
He revealed that his country is ready to export various expertise to support private business and investment in Kano, especially in the areas of energy and technological transfer, health, and agriculture, to improve trade and better life in the state.
Besides, the ambassador revealed that a plan had been concluded to ease its visa application and processes with the establishment of new visa centres in Lagos and Kano.
“I am here to meet the Chamber of Commerce of Kano, the business people from Nigeria, to see the possibilities of increasing our bilateral trade as well as Turkish investment here. We had a very successful, fruitful and result-oriented meeting.
“It was fruitful and I declared that we will have good news and other facilities to increase people-to-people contact between business people. That is to say that a new Turkish visa application centre will be open soon, insha Allah, in Kano to facilitate business people from Kano to get their visa from Kano easily without moving to Abuja”. Poroy revealed.
Earlier, the Chairman of the Nigeria-Turkey Business Council, Dele Oye, had explained that the visit to Kano formed part of a follow-up to President Bola Tinubu’s trip to Turkey in January 2026, where several MoUs to increase trade facilitation were signed.
He noted that stakeholders had been mandated to expand bilateral trade between both countries from $2 billion to $5 billion, stressing Kano’s strategic importance in achieving the target.
ODUMEGWU-OJUKWU reiterated the commitment to pacts when Poroy visited her office in Abuja.
In a statement signed yesterday by the Special Assistant on Communication and New Media to the minister, Magnus Eze, it was recalled that at the invitation of Turkish President Recep Erdoğan, President Tinubu undertook an official visit to Ankara on January 27, 2026, to strengthen bilateral relations.
The statement noted that the Nigerian delegation, which included no fewer than six ministers and the National Security Adviser (NSA), witnessed the signing of key bilateral agreements between both countries.
MUAZU MUKHTAR
HOC, FIC KANO
