The Validation Workshop on Nigeria National Quality Policy held on Monday 4th November, 2019 at Chelsea Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria. The Nigerian National Quality Policy aims at strengthening/ development of the National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) in order to achieve accelerated economic growth, increase in exports, ensure supply of safe quality product at competitive prices and contribute […]
Mr. Ayo Omowu representing the NANTS President at the 2nd ECOWAS People’s Agriculture Budget Summit aimed at supporting the implementation of the Malabo Declaration. , the summit which is the second of the series, is organized alongside the fourth Legislature, fourth year, 2nd Ordinary session of the ECOWAS parliament currently taking place in Abuja, Nigeria, […]
NANTS at the ECOWAS Agriculture Ministers meeting on NAIP and RAIP-FNS of ECOWAP 2025. 1. At the invitation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, the ECOWAP 2025 Regional Review and Outlook Meeting was held from 02 to 05 December 2019 in Conakry, Republic of Guinea. 2. The overall objective of the […]
NANTS President in Lome with the ECOWAS Director of Agriculture and Water Resources and Executive Directive of the Regional Agency for Agriculture and Food (RAAF); during the consideration of Draft Regulations for the transportation and movement of livestock and agro produce in ECOWAS region.
NANTS embarked on advocacy campaign strategies and awareness creation rallies across Nigeria on the dangers of using agrochemicals to produce, preserve, prepare and process food, meat, including fruits and grains. Such indiscriminate use of chemicals is unhealthy having been reported to constitute terrible hazard to the health of Nigerians. NANTS is totally against these practices […]
Regional trade and integration has remained part of Nigeria’s overarching strategy for economic transformation, growth and development. To this end, Nigeria adopted the establishment of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) with trade instruments such as the ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Scheme (ETLS) and the Common External Tariff (CET) at the West African regional level aimed at promoting […]
On the 28th day of May 1975, the then leaders of the various West African countries consummated the philosophy of a united region with the establishment of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), with the vision of a strong economic integration of member states anchored on the benefits of trade within the sub-region. […]
Nigeria has been without an official trade policy for over a decade. However, the country has been involved in the implementation of trade rules at the regional, bilateral and multilateral levels. In addition, Nigeria has also been involved in trade negotiations at different fora at multilateral, regional, sub-regional and bilateral level. All these have been […]
BACKGROUND For over five decades, regional integration has been part of the African continent’s overarching strategy for economic transformation, growth and development. The establishment of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) and indeed the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) was viewed as the panacea for seamless distribution of goods. Similarly, the introduction of trade instruments such as the […]
