The minister said that development financing by Afreximbank to Nigeria had exceeded $50 billion.
President Bola Tinubu has bagged the Lifetime African Achievement award from the Millennium Excellence Foundation based in Ghana.
He said the sectors included energy, infrastructural, pix: manufacturing, healthcare, transport and financial services.
The federal government and African Export-Import Bank on Tuesday signed the agreement for Nigeria to host the 32nd Afreximbank Annual Meetings.
In a review meeting at the State House, Abuja, Mr Tinubu said using the naira was conceived to remove the exchange rate hurdle.
Africa is at a crucial inflection point, with the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population, rapidly expanding cities, according to Mr Dangote.
The signing ceremony was held during a media briefing on Thursday in the Bahamas.
Nigeria can be an industrial base that will attract manufacturing investments from the U.S., apart from “also being a potential market for our goods.”
The latest figures captured additional data submitted by trade promotion agencies of Algeria, Nigeria and South Africa.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime has received about $20 billion in disbursements from Afreximbank, says the bank’s president Benedict Oramah.
