Signing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement will be an economic game-changer for Nigeria, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) President Mr Babatunde Ruwase has said. The AfCFTA, signed in Kigali, Rwanda on March 21, last year, is a trade agreement between 49 African Union (AU) member states (excluding Nigeria), with […] …
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One year after, AfCFTA seeks last ratification to kick off agreement
A year after the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) was presented for signature, along with the Kigali Declaration and the Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, Right to Residence and Right to Establishment, implementation of the agreement remains delayed over the inability to achieve required number of ratifications. Twenty-two (22) ratifications […]
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AfCFTA: Kagame speaks on Buhari and the Nigeria problem
AfCFTA: Committee to submit report January – Presidency
“As at December 2018, 49 countries have already signed the AfCFTA agreement and 13 countries have already ratified it…” Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari will in January 2019, receive the report of the Presidential Steering Committee on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Impact and Readiness Assessment. Buhari blames ‘slow reading’ for failure […]
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Panel on African free trade submits report January
The Presidential Steering Committee on African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Impact and Readiness Assessment will present its recommendations to President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2019.
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Buhari To Receive AFCFTA Report In January, Says Presidency
The Presidential Steering Committee on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Impact and Readiness Assessment will present its recommendations to President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2019. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. He noted that Nigeria has … Continue reading Buhari To Receive AFCFTA Report In January, Says Presidency
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Obasanjo knocks FG
Obasanjo expressed optimism that the government would sign the AfCFTA in order to help its vibrant private sector benefit from the integration programme. Amechi Ogbonna, Cairo, Egypt Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo and Chairman, Advisory Board of the First Intra-African Trade Fair holding in Cairo, Egypt, yesterday, lamented Nigeria’s failure to sign the African Continental Free […]
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Africa will still move forward if Nigeria does not sign AfCFTA ― OBJ
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo has said it is absurd that Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, has not signed the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). He said Africa will still move on, with or without Nigeria. It has been projected that if all 55 African countries ratify the AfCFTA, this will create a free trade area […]
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Obasanjo slams Nigeria, African countries over delayed ratification of AFCFTA
Amechi Ogbonna, Cairo, Egypt Nigeria’s former president and chairman of the Advisory Board of the first Inter- Africa Trade Fair, (IATF), Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday in Cairo, Egypt, decried the lethargic disposition of some African leaders including Nigeria, towards the signing of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, (AfCFTA). In his keynote address at the […]
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AfCFTA: Dismantling intra-Africa trade barriers for sustainable growth
“The removal of tariffs and trade barriers to free up trade and deepen intra-African trade and regional integration is an important tenet of the AfCFTA” Uche Usim, Abuja For decades, Africa has remained stuck to protectionism and individualism in their trading system that the rest of the world seems to have left the content behind, […]
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