Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shettima has called for a fast integration of Africa’s vast informal economy into the formal intra-African trade framework.
He recently described it as vital to exploiting the continent’s full economic potential.
Speaking at the opening of the 4th African Union Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Forum in Abuja, Shettima revealed that Africa’s development does not rely on its assets or stock markets, but on unlocking the power of the informal sector which accounts for nearly 90 per cent of the continent’s workforce.