The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on Nigerian entrepreneurs, innovators, and startup enterprises to apply for the African Continental Free Trade Area Startup Acceleration and Partnership Programme 2026.\n<\/p>\n
The ministry said the programme was launched by the AfCFTA Secretariat in partnership with the Government of the Republic of Korea and the Korea-Africa Foundation.\n<\/p>\n
In a statement issued on Tuesday by its spokesperson, Kimiebi Ebienfa, the ministry said the initiative is aimed at strengthening economic cooperation, trade, innovation and private-sector partnerships between African countries and the Republic of Korea within the AfCFTA framework.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe initiative is expected to support approximately thirty (30) selected African startups operating within strategic sectors, including fintech, digital commerce, manufacturing, logistics, and agricultural value chains.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuccessful participants will benefit from business acceleration support, mentorship opportunities, capacity-building programmes, market exposure, and investment networking opportunities in the Republic of Korea,\u201d the statement read. <\/p>\n
The ministry encouraged qualified Nigerian startups with innovative and scalable business models to take advantage of the opportunity to enhance Africa\u2013Korea commercial engagement and promote sustainable economic development.\n<\/p>\n
Interested applicants are to visit the official AfCFTA website for eligibility criteria, guidelines and application procedures via https:\/\/au-afcfta.org\/afcfta-startup-acceleration-partnership-program-2026\/<\/p>\n
The application deadline is May 31 2026.\n<\/p>\n
The ministry reaffirmed Nigeria\u2019s commitment to supporting continental economic integration, youth entrepreneurship, innovation and strategic international partnerships for national and regional development.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on Nigerian entrepreneurs, innovators, and startup enterprises to apply for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202817,92072,84,155562,99632,66987,4203,11700,202818,202819,160258,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-acceleration-programme","tag-afcfta","tag-business","tag-business-funding","tag-digital-commerce","tag-economic-cooperation","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-fintech","tag-korea-africa-foundation","tag-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","tag-nigerian-startups","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}