Nigeria set to commission Africa’s largest Food Logistics Hub in 2026
The facility features cold storage, dry warehousing, and repackaging centres to standardize agricultural packaging and reduce post-harvest losses.
NIGERIA – The Lagos State Government has announced plans to commission the first phase of the Lagos Central Food Security Systems and Logistics Hub before the end of 2026, marking a transformative step in the state’s efforts to tackle food insecurity and modernize its agricultural value chain.
Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Systems, Abisola Olusanya, made the disclosure during the 2026 Ministerial Press Briefing held at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre in Alausa, Ikeja, where she revealed that the hub, located in Ketu-Ereyun, Epe, is being developed as a modern, technology-driven facility to transform food transportation, storage, processing, and distribution within the state.
According to Olusanya, the project will serve as a major gateway for food distribution in the state, with the capacity to accommodate more than 1,500 trucks daily and handle over 1.5 million metric tonnes of food annually.
The facility is expected to become the largest food logistics hub in Sub-Saharan Africa after completion.
In addition to its logistical scale, the project will feature cold and dry storage systems, quality control laboratories, processing centres, digital trading platforms, truck parks, and modern warehouses aimed at reducing food waste and stabilizing prices.
Olusanya said the state’s strategy goes beyond food production to include storage, transportation, processing, distribution, and market access, with the aim of positioning Lagos as Africa’s leading food systems hub.
She noted that Lagos remains Nigeria’s largest food market, with an annual food economy estimated at ₦16.14 trillion (US$11.76B), creating enormous opportunities for investors, farmers, logistics operators, and agribusinesses.
Complementing the hub, the state activated a ₦500 billion (US$364.03M) Offtake Guarantee Fund under its Produce for Lagos initiative to strengthen food production, aggregation, logistics, financing, and distribution systems.
The fund is designed to de-risk agricultural investments and provide guaranteed market access for farmers, aggregators, processors, logistics operators, and investors.
Beyond logistics, Lagos continues to expand large-scale agricultural infrastructure projects across the state. These projects include the famous Imota Rice Mill, agro-produce hubs, and the Lagos Aquaculture Centre of Excellence.
The Imota Rice Mill, widely regarded as the largest rice mill in Africa and the third largest in the world, produced more than 500,000 bags of Eko Rice during the review period.
Furthermore, the state cultivated hundreds of hectares of rice fields to improve paddy supply for the facility.
The commissioner also revealed that the Lagos Fresh Food Hub in Idi-Oro, Mushin, recorded over ₦1.2 billion (US$874,418) in transactions across 76 market days since May 2025, with more than 850 vendors registered and over 7,000 jobs created directly and indirectly.
On the job creation front, the government has been training thousands of youths, farmers, and agribusiness operators through initiatives including the Lagos Agripreneurship Programme and the Lagos Agric Scholars Programme.
Olusanya emphasized the government’s broader ambition, stating the administration is not implementing isolated agricultural projects but rather building a complete food systems architecture to strengthen food security, create jobs, and attract investment into the state.
The commissioner also highlighted investment opportunities in aquaculture, poultry, livestock, rice, coconut, horticulture, feed production, processing, packaging, cold chain, logistics, mechanization, greenhouse farming, digital agriculture, and food retail.
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