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African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA)

This is time to ride on AfCFTA to invest in Africa, AfDB tells UK investors’

More facts are still emerging from the UK Parliamentary Symposium, coming on the sidelines of the UK-Africa Investment Summit (UK-AfIS) in London this week. African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina has charged UK investors saying based on the…

Angola’s national carrier takes position ahead of AfCFTA, begins flight to Nigeria

As the Federal Government is yet to present a clear policy that will drive Nigeria Air as the emerging national carrier, African national carriers are currently expanding their frontiers and capacities in view of the long awaited full takeoff of…

AfCFTA: Poor number of local exhibitors in Lagos fair fuels dumping fear

What can be seen as a test case of how Nigeria will perform in the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) is now playing out at the ongoing Food and Beverage West Africa, the largest trade exhibition in West Africa,…

Burkina Faso’s ratification today may flag off AfCFTA implementation

Chances of coming to life of the conceived African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) by the African Union Commission (AUC), may become a reality before the end of today, if the government of Burkina Faso will put paid to its…

Vitafoam Nigeria unveils 8 new products, warns against hasty ratification of AfCFTA

Pioneer foam manufacturing company, Vitafoam Nigeria has launched eight innovative products into the Nigerian market and cautioned against hasty signing of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) by the Federal Government. The Group Managing Director, Vitafoam Nigeria, Taiwo Adeniyi…

Signing AfCFTA means disaster for manufacturing sector, OPS again, warns FG

Contrary to rising pressure on the Federal Government to signing the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), the Organised Private Sector (OPS), has cautioned the government to hold on pending when local manufacturing index is looking good. The group averred…

Three factors withholding Nigeria from aligning with AfCFTA dream unmasked

Rising from a day quarterly Business Intelligence Discuss (BID) on African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), organized in Lagos on Monday by Business Hilights Online Publications, experts in development economics, have listed three key factors weakening the President Muhammadu Buhari’s…

Develop antifraud template before reactivating Export Expansion Grant—Expert

In view of the latest signal by the Federal Government to reactivate the suspended Export Expansion Grant (EEG) with the sum of N13.28bn so as to stimulate non-oil exports, a development economist, Dr. Ken Igboanugo, has called for a fraud…