NUGGET International Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria
8th May 2009

The National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTS) in collaboration with ILEAP organised a stakeholders meeting on May 8th 2009 with the objective of “reviewing the Nigerian GATS conditional offer and setting an agenda towards building a consensus around such an offer in the EPA and/or expanding such an agenda in the EPA”. Building on the Accra Services agenda of March 2009, the one-day workshop, was attended by all public sector services related MDAs, as well as selected private sector services thematic groups. More specifically, the focus of the workshop was to:

• Achieve a critical analysis of the sectors, a thorough regulatory audit of the sector;
• Promote consensus building, encouraging better stakeholders understanding of the domestic services trade dynamics;
• Provide an evaluation of choices and careful selection of priorities coupled with the acquisition of adequate infrastructure capacity;
• Facilitate negotiations and generated an outline of potential implementation commitments.

Final Report