Prof. Osinbajo also urged exporters to take advantage of opportunities for growth in the African market through the African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA.
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Fred Chiazor, Chairman, Fruit Juice Producers branch of MAN, made this known at the MMS Business discourse in Lagos.
“Nigeria in the Unfolding Integration of the African Market: The Oil and Gas Perspective,” is the topic of the Lecture.
Adesina said this at the Adeola Odutola Lecture, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria Annual Meeting while making his presentation entitled ‘Overcoming Binding Constraints to Competitive Manufacturing for Intra-Regional Trade’.
Makinde, who spoke at AFCFTA’s Conversation with Africa Forum, held in Gaborone, Botswana, maintained that Oyo State has become a prime investment destination in Nigeria.
Earlier planned to take place at Eko Hotel, the Chairman, Technical Committee, African Brand Congress, Dada Ajai-Ikhile said, “This is to inform all our esteem participants, awardees and exhibitors that the African Brand Congress/African Brand Leadership Awards 2021 earlier scheduled to be held in Eko Hotel & Suites is hereby shifted to Four Points by Sheraton, Victoria Island Lagos, Nigeria.”
PAPSS is a revolutionary Financial Market Infrastructure to enable instant, cross-border payments in local currencies between African markets.
Francis Anatogu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Sector matters and Executive Secretary, National Action Committee on AfCFTA, stated this at a virtual interactive session in Lagos.
Its President, Osayande Giwa-Osagie said on Thursday in Lagos during the chamber’s September Breakfast Forum, with the theme: `Perspectives on the Africa Continental Free Trade Area in Relation to Nigeria’.
This was the concluding call by a panel of experts who spoke during a webinar on ‘Accelerating Access to Post-Harvest Management Technologies for Enhanced Food Security and Trade in Africa’ organised by the African Agricultural Technology Foundation.
A statement issued by the bank on Tuesday said the agreement was signed on September 8.
He stated that such actions include the protection of local industries and improving value chains.
He disclosed this at the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) diplomatic luncheon in Abuja.
The President/CEO of SEEED MCS Limited, Mr. Lugard Okonobo, stated this at a preparatory stakeholders meeting to validate the One Local Government One Agriculture Product (OLAOP).
The president spoke during a bilateral meeting on Thursday with the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Baroness Patricia Scotland, on the sidelines of the Global Education Summit holding in London, United Kingdom.
The three-day MSME Masterclass Webinar series, tagged: “Taking Your SME Business Across Borders,” held from June 15 to 17, 2021.
Wamkele Mene, the Secretary-General of AfCFTA told Xinhua in an interview that the Pan-African Payments and Settlement System (PAPSS) would be ready by the end of 2021 to facilitate trade among countries.
The President of WISTA Nigeria, Eunice Ezeoke stated this at a press briefing in Lagos to announce the association’s 2021 Business Luncheon and Magazine Launch, with the theme, “AfCFTA: Investment Opportunities for Women in Trade,” which is slated for July 8, 2021 at Oriental Hotel in Lagos.
In today’s information society, digital payment is an indispensable enabler of trade. This is precisely why experts have more or less hinged the success of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement on the success of digital payments. “We need to put as much effort as we are putting into getting the operational blocks of the agreement and secretariat going into getting the African payments regulatory landscape similarly integrated. Payments across the continent could probably be made seamless today. The technology is there,” says Dr. Augustina Odame of the Ghana Chamber of Technology.
Speaking at the maiden edition of the African Local Content Roundtable, at the Nigerian Content Tower, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on Thursday, Sylva said through implementation of local content, Nigeria has been able to achieve significant progress in value addition, adding that Nigeria plans to achieve 70% local content compliance in the next six years.