CBN, Stakeholders Endorse ACFTA Fest 2026 THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), and other key stakeholders have pledged support for the 2026 African Continental Free Trade Area Festival (ACFTA Fest), scheduled to hold in Abuja from 26 to 28 March. The commitments were made on Friday during […]
By FRED LONGJOHN OBEH AfCFTA: A Historic Opportunity Under Strain ECONOMIC experts have repeatedly described Nigeria’s participation in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as one of the most consequential trade opportunities in the country’s modern economic history. With a single African market of over 1.3 billion people and a combined GDP exceeding $3 […]
Two Decades of Access, Little Diversification FOR more than 20 years, Nigeria has been handed preferential access to some of the world’s largest markets. From the United States’ African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), successive governments have promoted trade agreements as the pathway out of crude oil […]
The Feed Crisis Behind the Protein Crisis NIGERIA’S most affordable protein—poultry—depends almost entirely on two farm inputs the country still struggles to stabilise: maize and soya. Sunday Ezeobiora, National President of PAN, argues that commodity stabilisation is poultry stabilisation. He advocates government-backed dry-season maize and soya expansion, warning that if feed prices remain volatile, poultry […]