Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari has eventually signed the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA).
The signing took place at the 12th Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union on AfCFTA and the First Mid-Year Coordination Meeting of the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities in Niamey, Niger Republic.
Buhari appended his signature to the document about 10.48 am on Sunday, July 7.
Nigeria has thus become the 53rd country in Africa to sign the AfCFTA agreement.
It is not known whether Nigeria will still qualify to share from the grant the European Union plans to give to Africa on the basis of this programme.