Nigeria: FG Told to Disregard Trade Negotiation Deadline

17 November 2006

The federal government should ignore a trade negotiation deadline because it gives Nigeria a bad deal, a former Central Bank official, said yesterday in Abuja.

Nigeria and other West African countries agreed in 2000 to sign a trade agreement with the European Union (EU), in January 2008 after passing through three stages of negotiations.

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