Nigeria’s roadmap to digital transformation under the AfCTA

Lagos port Nigeria is positioning itself to lead the continent in digital commerce within the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) framework. Already, the country’s digital economy has transformed the way millions of citizens shop, bank, and communicate, reshaping the nation’s trade landscape and unlocking new pathways for economic growth. The AfCFTA aims to harmonize digital trade rules and principles, ensuring a streamlined, secure, and inclusive digital trading environment to enhance digital trade within Africa and its engagement with the world. Some key provisions of the digital protocol are market access, data governance, and consumer trust. Nigeria recently unveiled a comprehensive strategy focusing on enhancing digital infrastructure investments, promoting disruptive innovation and entrepreneurship, and ensuring the alignment of multiple government agencies to support digital trade initiatives. Key components of the roadmap include the AfCFTA’s Digital Trade Protocol implementation and the development of expansive technical talent hubs. "We are in a vantage position because we are the continent’s largest ICT hub, and as such, we must lead the way to the future of this peculiar wave of the industrial revolution,” Kashim Shettima, Nigeria’s vice president, affirmed at a recent gathering of experts in Abuja to brainstorm on the road ahead […]

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