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Experts Advise African Leaders On Self-Inflicted Pains

Experts Advise African Leaders On Self-Inflicted Pains

Experts and stakeholders drawn from economics, corporate, public administration, management, leadership, and human development have urged African leaders to urgently reverse the self-inflicted pains that the continent has suffered over decades. They made this call…

NACCIMA Speaks On Tinubu’s Emergence As ECOWAS Chairman

NACCIMA Speaks On Tinubu’s Emergence As ECOWAS Chairman

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has reacted to the emergence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). New…

Tinubu Makes First Intercontinental Visit, Engages At ECOWAS Summit In Guinea-Bissau

Tinubu Makes First Intercontinental Visit, Engages At ECOWAS Summit In Guinea-Bissau

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has arrived in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, for the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Summit. New Telegraph reports this is President Tinubu first…

AfCFTA: ECA, Afreximbank launch African trade exchange platform

AfCFTA: ECA, Afreximbank launch African trade exchange platform

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Export– Import Bank (Afreximbank) have announced the development of the African Trade Exchange Platform (ATEX), a digital business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-government (B2G) tool to boost trade…

UNCTAD, AfCFTA strengthen ties for regional integration

UNCTAD, AfCFTA strengthen ties for regional integration

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost their joint efforts to promote regional integration and…

Nigeria missing as AfCFTA launches guided trade drive

Nigeria missing as AfCFTA launches guided trade drive

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretariat based in Accra, the capital of Ghana, over the weekend, launched a guided trade initiative for seven member countries, excluding Nigera, the continent’s largest economy. According to…

AfCFTA: ‘Lack of export strategy undermines Nigeria’s gains’

AfCFTA: ‘Lack of export strategy undermines Nigeria’s gains’

The lack of export strategy by Nigeria will deny her the opportunity of reaping maximally from African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a faculty member of the Lagos Business School (LBS), Dr Frank Ojadi, has…

UK invests £35m to support AfCFTA implementation

UK invests £35m to support AfCFTA implementation

UK has launched a programme of up to £35 million to support negotiations and implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. AfCTFA is expected to lift 30 million people out of extreme…

AfCFTA: Inequality in exchange rate costing Africa’s economy $5bn yearly

AfCFTA: Inequality in exchange rate costing Africa’s economy $5bn yearly

Promoters of Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has said that the abnormalities being experienced in the foreign exchange rate conversion in the continent is costing multilateral trade in the continent an estimated $5 billion…

AfCFTA: Expert tasks AU members on opportunities for women

AfCFTA: Expert tasks AU members on opportunities for women

To ensure that women have access to new opportunities that would be created by the African Continental Free Trade Area (Af- CFTA), especially in economic areas such as agriculture, industry, services and trade, African Union…