About
What is the NFTA?
The Nigerian Foreign Trade Academy (NFTA) is a multi-sectoral Academy which aims at enhancing Nigeria’s professional, training and research capacities on trade facilitation and negotiations, digital trade, industrial expansion, investment promotion, economic diversification, sustainable development, and related disciplines, thereby strengthening the understanding and application of trade policy issues by relevant stakeholders.
More specifically, NFTA will:
• Enhance skills and provide relevant re-skilling programs for trade and sustainable development professionals.
• Promote scholarly and open-access publications on key industry, manufacturing, trade and investment issues.
• Define and set standards for public office professionals and promote high standards of quality through awards and other forms of recognition.
• Support individual trade and sustainable development researchers through membership services, publications and events.
• Provide structure and permanency to triennial Nigerian Industry, Trade and Investment Week.
• Collaborate with development partners to publish NFTA Bulletin (NFTAB) and the Nigerian Trade and Industry Innovation Studies Series (NTISS)
• Develop broad guidelines for trade and sustainable development research partnerships amongst Nigerian, African, and global students and experts.
Programs and Research
Trainings
NFTA-AFD will focus on two core skills areas as its two strategic objectives:
• Act as the national academy that foster reskilling among public officials in preparation for the 4IR.
• Serve as a bridge programme which provide unique opportunities for polytechnic and university graduates to reskilling for business employability and leadership, thereby enhancing Nigeria’s industrial trajectory.
NFTA Bulletin (NFTAB)
NFTA will collaborate with selected development partners to produce its monthly bulletin (NFTAB), as well as the Nigerian Trade and Industry Innovation Studies Series (NTISS) . NFTA Bulletin (NFTAB) introduces featured research and training related policies and showcase noteworthy trade and sustainable development policies of relevance to industrial, economic and regional integration issues. NFTAB will be published and updated monthly.
Nigerian Trade and Industry Innovation Studies Series (NTISS)
NTISS, as the official journal of the NFTA, aims at publishing both qualitative and quantitative research issues which strengthens Nigeria’s unique position within the international economy, and its interaction across the globe. From a digitally global perspective, JNFTS contribute to achieving NFTA’s goal on deploying appropriate tools, improving trade data access and disseminating relevant information towards deepening understanding and implications of intersectoral role of trade, investment and industrialization for realizing the AfCFTA, WTO TFAs, and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) for Nigeria.
NTISS publishes high quality research papers, articles, viewpoints, case studies, literature reviews, conceptual frameworks and general views in all areas of Nigerian domestic trade, regional integration (ECOWAS, AfCFTA), finance, business, commerce, international economics (WTO), digitization, innovation, industry, intellectual property, export, import, customs, single window and standards with multidisciplinary implications for Nigeria’s foreign trade agenda. However, more emphasis will be placed on the theory-based and applied trade policy research which critically analyse real issues confronting Nigerian businesses, markets, health, commerce, industry and enterprises.
Website: https://nftacademy.wordpress.com/
Email address:nigerianforeigntradeacademy@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nigerian-foreign-trade-academy/?viewAsMember=true
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nigerian-Foreign-Trade-Academy-103259071605628
Instagram :nigerianftacademy
Twitter: @TradeNigerian
'Team working on the project:
Dr. Nasir Sani- Gwarzo, mni, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment as Team Lead.
Suleman A. Audu, Director, Commodities and Export Department, FMITI;
Gbadebo Odularu, Trade and Digitalization, Research and Practice Lead;
Abel A. Misak, Information Technology and Web Development Expert.
