Grassroots Investment Summit 2026
23–25 November 2026 · Abuja International Conference Centre
Join Grassroots Investment Summit 2026
Nigeria’s flagship investment summit. Choose how you’d like to participate — as a delegate attending sessions and the deal room, or as a sponsor positioning your brand in front of 1,000+ decision-makers.
Register as a Delegate
Access all conference sessions, plenary panels, the Investment Deal Room, parallel workshops, and two days of structured networking with investors, government officials, and industry leaders.
Register as delegate → Nominated DelegateRegister as a Nominated Delegate
Access all conference sessions, plenary panels, the Investment Deal Room, parallel workshops, and two days of structured networking with investors, government officials, and industry leaders.
Register as nominated delegate →Speakers
Hon. Taiwo Oyedele
Minister of Finance
Aliko Dangote
President/CEO, Dangote Group
Abdul Samad Rabiu
Chairman, BUA Group
Dr. Sidi Ould Tah
President, African Development Bank Group
Dr. George Elombi
President & Chairman, Afreximbank
Olayemi Cardoso
Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria
Wang Chunying
President, China EXIM Bank
Nigeria's flagship investment summit: Attracting Capital for Local Government Transformation
23–25
November 2026
Abuja International
Conference Centre
Nigeria Governors’ Forum &
Federal Ministry of Finance
The Grassroots Investment Summit 2026 is Nigeria’s national platform for directing private, institutional, and development capital toward the country’s 774 Local Governments. Co-hosted by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and the Federal Ministry of Finance, GIS 2026 brings together heads of state, global investors, development finance institutions, and private sector leaders to unlock a $5–10 billion investment pipeline at the grassroots level.
This is not a conference. It is a structured pipeline system: LG Projects → Structuring → Investors → Execution. Delegates leave with signed MOUs, deal room commitments, and pre-qualified investment-ready projects from across Nigeria’s 774 local governments.
The GIS Economic Engine
Nigeria’s 774 Local Governments are home to the vast majority of the country’s population, agricultural land, natural resources, and untapped economic potential. Yet they receive a fraction of the development and private capital that flows into the country annually.
The Grassroots Investment Summit exists to close that gap — systematically. GIS functions as a pipeline: surfacing and structuring investable LG projects, connecting them with the right capital partners, and driving execution through signed agreements and institutional commitments.
GIS 2026 investment pipeline: four stages from LG Projects through Structuring and Investors to Execution
GIS 2026 Programmes
Three Days. Three Streams. One National Mission.
The GIS 2026 programme is strategically structured around Nigeria’s most critical local government investment frontiers, bringing together policy leaders, investors, development institutions, and private sector stakeholders to unlock scalable opportunities across infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing, energy, and digital transformation.
Day 1
Commercial Stream
Technical Stream
Agriculture & agro-industrial value chains, captive power & off-grid energy solutions, digital infrastructure and smart LGA development
Day 2
Investment Forum & Deal Room
Day 3
Who Will You Meet at GIS 2026?
GIS 2026 brings together over 1,000 Nigerian, regional, and international participants across government, finance, and industry. Delegates include Heads of State and senior government officials, CEOs and board chairmen of leading African and global corporations, governors and local government executives, fund managers and development finance institution representatives, project developers and technical professionals, and legal and compliance specialists in investment and infrastructure.
Investment Roadshow & Deal Room
The GIS 2026 Deal Room is the summit’s centrepiece commercial event. Over 100 pre-qualified, investment-ready projects sourced from Nigeria’s 774 Local Governments are presented to a curated room of institutional investors, development finance institutions, and private equity partners in structured sessions culminating in on-site MOU signings and deal commitments.
Projects are pre-screened by GIS Technical Advisers including the African International Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AICCI), the All Africa Association for SMEs (AAASME), and Omai Capital Limited. The Deal Room is facilitated by Wale Olusi, Director of Deals Advisory, PwC.
Why GIS 2026 Matters
Nigeria’s 774 Local Governments collectively represent the largest single frontier of untapped investment opportunity in Africa. They hold agricultural land, mineral resources, consumer populations, and logistical corridors — yet have historically been bypassed by both domestic and international capital markets.
At the same time, Nigeria’s federal fiscal architecture is evolving. Recent supreme court rulings on LG financial autonomy, combined with the federal government’s push for subnational investment-readiness, have created a once-in-a-generation opening for structured capital deployment at the grassroots level.
GIS 2026 is the platform that converts that opening into bankable transactions.
Output Commitments
- $5–10 Billion investment pipeline activated
- 100+ bankable LG projects presented and reviewed
- Signed MOUs for priority projects across the LG space
- Deal room closings with institutional investors
- Pre-qualified, investment-ready projects from all geopolitical zones
The Grassroots Investment Summit, co-hosted by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and the Federal Ministry of Finance, in partnership with the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON).
GIS channels global capital toward Nigeria’s 774 Local Governments – transforming underserved communities into viable investment destinations through structured deal-making, policy alignment, and institutional capacity building.
Questions or Inquiries?
Venue
Date
Monday to Wednesday
23–25 November 2026
Contact Us
3rd Floor (Fortune Towers) 27 / 29 Ademoye Alakija Street Victoria Island – Lagos Nigeria.
info@grassrootsinvestment.org
+234 (0)808 073 9168