Nigeria Export Processing Zone Authority (NEPZA) has the mandate to establish, license, regulate and operate highly efficient Free Zones by providing a highly competitive incentive scheme, excellent support facilities and service for the purpose of creating an enabling environment for export manufacturing and other commercial activities.
NEPZA is Nigeria’s Investment Promotion Agency for investment into the Free Zone areas in Nigeria . The licensing, monitoring and regulation of Free Zones Scheme in Nigeria is vested on the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) by the Nigeria Export Processing Zones’ Act 63, of 1992.
The enabling Act also confers on the Authority the power to approve and grant all licenses and permits to the exclusion of all other Agencies, enforce obedience and compliance to rules and regulations. In effect, the Act is an omnibus law, which permits the Authority and its Board the power to define the policy directions and provide a One-Stop-Shop business transaction without bureaucracy.
Export Processing Zones, Free Trade Zones, Special Economic Zones, Industrial Cities, Industrial Parks, Industrial Clusters, Investment in Nigeria, Investment in Africa
Head Office
No. 2 Zambezi Crescent, Cadastral Zone A6
off Aguiyi Ironsi Street
Maitama, Abuja, Nigeria.
Telephone: +234 802 400 9408
Tel. Investor Enquiries: +234 701 683 4729
E-mail: [email protected]