AfCFTA: Message from Nigeria

The Federal Republic of Nigeria today 5th December 2020, submitted the instrument of ratification for the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa. 

The ratification instrument was submitted by a delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by Amb. Richard Adeola, Charge D'Affaires Nigeria's Permanent Mission to the African Union and Mr. Francis Anatogu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Sector Matters and Secretary of the National Action Committee on the Africa Continental Free Trade Area. 

This momentous event follows on the heels of the Federal Executive Council’s recommendation to His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari to ratify the AfCFTA Agreement.

Nigeria, by this very step, becomes the 34th African nation to deposit their instrument of ratification, a move that finally solidifies their mission to lead a single market for goods, services and free movement of persons within Africa, as well as demonstrates to the world their economic leadership position where their resources will be used to drive the vanguard of intra trade on the African continent.

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