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UPCOMING EVENTS
Breakfast Session of the American Business
Council scheduled for 27th September, 2007 at which the Guest Speaker, Mr
Alan Latimer, Consul at the US Consulate-General, will address the topic,
“Requirements and Procedures for US
Visa Applications”
Launch of the American Business Council
Nigeria in Lagos on September/October,2007
Launch of the American Business Council Nigeria
in Washington DC on 25-26 October,2007

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Welcome to the Official Website of American
Business Council (ABC)
A General Meeting of US Companies doing business in Nigeria in May 2005,
unanimously endorsed the need for an American Business Council (ABC) which ,
operating like a “think tank”, will focus on policy issues and practical
implementation steps in support of Nigerian public and private section
leadership as well as ongoing reform initiatives in the country. It is designed
to bring ABC’s Nigerian based resources combined with the US support, to bear on
selected issues and reform initiatives that show potential
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Our Objectives
- To promote the
development of commerce and investments between the United States of America
and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
- To provide a forum
in which American business executives in Nigeria and other business
executives with American interests may identify, discuss, pursue common
interests affecting their activities.
- To liaise with the
Chamber of Commerce of the United States and other chambers of commerce and
institutions pursuing similar objects, and to advocate the views of the
American business community in Nigeria to public and private interests in
the United States and Nigeria.
- To work with
individuals and organizations in Nigeria or elsewhere on matters of mutual
interest.
- To create awareness
of Nigeria’s business and investment opportunities in the United States and
among the American business community in Nigeria.
- To champion the
promotion of free trade in goods and services and removal of trade barriers
between Nigeria and the United States and use its best endeavours to
influence United States’ policies and laws affecting business in Nigeria;
- To develop
programmes for capacity building and human capital development in Nigeria
through such initiatives as structured institutional, communal and
individual donation of funds, skills, tools, equipment and materials to the
educational, health and other sectors involved in the socio-economic
development of Nigeria
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