Lagos promises to relocate trade fair to permanent site
As Sanwo-Olu woos Chinese investors to the State
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday said the government would relocate the Lagos International...
Bello: Nigeria loses over N3trn to non-oil exports
Nigeria has lost about $10 billion (about N3.6 trillion) over the past five decades in non-oil export opportunities in crops such as cocoa, oil...
ECOWAS decries low intra-regional trade in Sub-region
The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) has decried low volumes of trade within the sub-region, adding that the share of intra-regional trade...
AfDB puts trade within AfCFTA at $3.3trillion
The African Development Bank (AfDB), says the size of trade within the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is worth 3.3 trillion dollars.
The president...
Why Nigeria has not taken advantage of AGOA – officIal
Lack of capacity for mass production is a major obstacle to Nigeria’s full utilisation of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) initiative, a...
Next steps for AfCFTA, by ECA
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on Monday released a report titled: ‘Next Steps for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA...
OPS lauds President Buhari for signing AfCFTA
The Organised Private Sector (OPS) has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for including Nigeria in the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) at the just...
Why Nigeria will not rush into African free trade agreement – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has given reasons again why Nigeria will not be rushed into the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) treaty.
The AfCFTA treaty...
Africa records $997.9bn in merchandise trade in 2018 – Afreximbank
The 2019 continental trade report of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has revealed that the value of Africa’s merchandise trade in 2018 stood at...
Nigeria’s foreign trade volume hits N8.24 trn in Q1, 2019 – NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), said the country recorded trade volume of 8.24 trillion in first quarter, 2019.
The NBS said this in “Foreign...
