Poland’s Prime Minister, Donald Tusk arrived Nigeria on Wednesday, leading a delegation, with 30 companies to explore business opportunities in the fast rising emerging economy.

The companies, were from various sectors of the polish economy such as  energy, oil and gas, construction and building materials,  mining, transport, maritime, furniture, agriculture and food industry, IT services and consultancy.

Prior to the PMs visit, director for promotion and bilateral co-operation, Tomas Ostaszewicz told Business day Nigeria that: “We want to start a program called ‘Go Africa’ that will be operated by the polish investment agency with the support of ministry of economy, and this will be officially announced during the Prime Minister’s visit to Nigeria.”

Ostaszwewicz added: “For us it is clear indicator that we should look overseas. That why we are interested in Africa, a promising and growing economy”.

With more polish companies planning expansions abroad, the Go Africa program aims to facilitate polish investments in oil-rich Nigeria.

According to business day Nigeria, Kulcyzk, an international upstream oil and gas company, acquired oil mining licence (OML) 42 for $585 million in March; while a sum of $435 million was paid by the consortium partners with an outstanding 150 million dollars funded through Neconde debt financing, thus the consortium bought 45% stake of shell, Agip and Total in the onshore oil well.

Kulczyk Investments, the major shareholder in Kulczyk Oil Ventures, is owned by the wealthiest Polish, Jan Kulczyk.

Two trade delegations from the west and central Poland have been to Nigeria in the past few months, according to Przemyslaw Niesiolowski, Poland’s ambassador to Nigeria “Both trade delegations were quite happy with what they have seen.