President MUHAMMAD BUHARI has signed the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement.

The signing took place at the 12th Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union on AfCFTA and the First Mid-Year Coordination Meeting of the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities in Niamey, Niger Republic.

Nigeria has become the 53rd county in Africa to sign the AfCFTA agreement.

BUHARI accepted to sign the agreement after a presidential panel he set up to look into the AfCFTA advised that Nigeria would benefit economically from the envisaged trade relations with other African countries.