Nigeria and India are deepening their strategic partnership across trade, investment, defence, energy, healthcare, agriculture and technology, with bilateral trade rising to about $9 billion in the 2025–26 financial year, Abhishek Singh, Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, has disclosed.
Singh made the disclosure in Abuja during a media briefing on the expanding relationship between the two countries, saying the latest trade figure represented a significant increase from the $7.13 billion recorded in 2024–25.
He said the growth underscored the increasing economic importance of the relationship between Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, and India, one of the world’s major emerging economic powers.
According to the envoy, the relationship has moved beyond its traditional foundations of historical ties and crude oil trade to encompass a much broader range of strategic interests, including security, digital technology, food security, healthcare, agriculture, and global governance.
“India-Nigeria relations are no longer defined only by historical goodwill or oil trade,” Singh said, stressing that the partnership had evolved into a multidimensional strategic relationship.
