Is Nigeria’s border closure a slap in the face of integration efforts?
The Economic Community of West African States has started declining Nigerian products possibly in retaliation to the country’s border closure.
. It is likely to damage the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement , which has the potential to be the world's largest free trade zone, even surpassing the World Trade Organization, established in 1995. He said: “It is definitely impacting negatively on the economy as the exports done within the ECOWAS region and our neighboring countries are now in decrease. These countries that benefit from the open border, since we have closed it, even though we used to export to them before, you don’t expect to get the level of cooperation that we are getting before because they are hit hard by these closed borders.
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