FG sensitises North-East businesses on ECOWAS, AfCFTA trade opportunities

The Federal Government has launched a sensitisation programme to assistance Nigerian businesses entree commercialized opportunities nether the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

The programme, implemented done the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme (ETLS), began successful Bauchi with a store for concern owners, entrepreneurs and chambers of commerce from the North-East.

Speaking astatine the workshop, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, said the inaugural was designed to bring the benefits of Nigeria’s overseas argumentation person to citizens, peculiarly businesses and entrepreneurs astatine the grassroots.

The workshop, themed “Increasing Intra-Regional Trade done ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme (ETLS),” is portion of the government’s 4D overseas argumentation agenda, which places Nigerians astatine the centre of the country’s overseas relations.

Enikanolaiye said, “The inaugural volition amended Nigerian businesses connected opportunities wrong ECOWAS and the African Continental Free Trade Area.”

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