African Continental Free Trade Area

Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has bemoaned the difficulties he goes through when traveling to the African Continent with his Nigerian Passport. According to the Nigerian businessman…

Group Managing Director/CEO of Access Bank Plc, Mr. Herbert Wigwe, has won the African Banker of the Year award for the second consecutive year. This was disclosed in a statement on Sunday by the Tier 1 bank’s CEO, after winning the…

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and  Agriculture (NACCIMA) has  applauded  the decision by the Federal Government to ratify the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), saying that it  “is good news…

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja, on Friday, for London, United Kingdom, to participate in the inaugural UK-Africa Investment Summit holding on Monday, January 20. The event to be hosted by British Prime Minister, Boris…

African markets will become increasingly attractive in 2020 at a time when wider global trends are more set against the interests of international businesses than they have been for many years. Fractious geopolitics in a US election…

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) “supports’’ Nigeria’s closure of its land borders because it understands the action is not punitive. Addressing newsmen in Washington on Sunday,…

Nigeria’s Chief Trade Negotiator and Director-General of Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiation, Amb. Chiedu Osakwe, is dead. Osakwe’s death was confirmed in a tweet by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). READ ALSO: JUST…

The African Import Export Bank (Afreximbank), has reiterated its commitment to integrate and transform African economies by promoting Intra-African trading. A statement issued by the bank on Monday said that its Managing Director on…

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria would be guided by ‘national interest' in taking any decision on the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Special Adviser to the President on Media…

An African free-trade zone came into force, on Thursday, a step toward creating what the African Union (AU) hopes will be a continent-wide market of 1.2 billion people worth US$2.5 trillion. "This is a historic milestone!" tweeted Albert…