{"id":73570,"date":"2025-08-19T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73570"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:42:32","slug":"firstbank-hosts-2025-agric-export-conference-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/19\/firstbank-hosts-2025-agric-export-conference-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"FirstBank Hosts 2025 Agric, Export Conference in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FirstBank is today hosting the 2025 edition of its Agric and Export Conference at the Eko Convention Centre, Lagos, with the theme \u201cThe Fundamentals of Building a Non-Oil Export Driven Economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hybrid event brings together key stakeholders to spotlight agriculture and non-oil exports as vital drivers of Nigeria\u2019s economic diversification.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will also explore exhibition booths and attend technical sessions anchored by industry experts across the value chain.<\/p>\n<p>Keynote speaker at the conference is the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, alongside other notable panelists including Jafar Abubakar Umar, MD Bank of Agriculture; Abba Bello, MD\/CEO NEXIM Bank; Segun Awolowo of AfCFTA; Kabir Ibrahim, President of AFAN; and Nonye Ayeni, CEO NEPC.<\/p>\n<p>FirstBank\u2019s Group Managing Director, Olusegun Alebiosu, said the platform would empower customers and stakeholders with \u201cinsights, innovative solutions, and valuable connections\u201d to strengthen businesses and boost Nigeria\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Agric and Export Conference is one of FirstBank\u2019s flagship initiatives supporting economic diversification, global competitiveness, and non-oil export growth, positioning agriculture as Nigeria\u2019s most viable alternative to oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David FirstBank is today hosting the 2025 edition of its Agric and Export Conference at the Eko Convention Centre, Lagos, with the theme \u201cThe Fundamentals of Building a Non-Oil Export Driven Economy.\u201d The hybrid event brings together key stakeholders to spotlight agriculture and non-oil exports as vital drivers of Nigeria\u2019s economic diversification. Participants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,1718,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-finance","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73572,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73570\/revisions\/73572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}