Nigeria will sign the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement (AfCFTA) at an extraordinary summit of the African Union (AU) this weekend, bringing the duty-free movement of goods in the region a step closer.

The economy of Africa’s most-populous nation vies with SA to be the continent’s biggest, and signing up clears a hurdle in the implementation of the AfCFTA...

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