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@kennfay @africaceoforum @NGRPresident @afreximbank @papss_africa Sigh! No one said Afreximbank is a marketplace. Only said they created a platform that allows businesses in Africa to trade commodities and also pay via PAPSS.

@msuberum @africaceoforum @NGRPresident @afreximbank @papss_africa Commodity exchange is like a stock exchange but traders in agriculture and solid minerals. What he wants is for Africa to control prices thru the exchange. Afreximbank is not a market place.

🌍 "Why don't you start one?" In four words, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu turned a moderator's question into a continental challenge from the main stage of the Africa CEO Forum Annual Summit in Kigali. 🛒 The question on the table was simple. Why does Africa, with all its commodity wealth spread asymmetrically across borders, still lack a continental exchange platform where producers and buyers can trade with one another rather than routing every transaction through external markets? Tinubu's answer turned the question back on the room. The continent's two largest economies, Nigeria and South Africa, have the scale, the volumes, the capital markets infrastructure and the political weight to launch precisely that platform. The case for waiting is increasingly difficult to defend. 📊 The numbers behind the provocation matter. Nigeria's non-oil exports to African markets grew 38% year-on-year in 2024. Intra-African trade is projected to climb from 15% in 2023 to 25% by 2030 under the AfCFTA framework. Cargo clearance times at major Nigerian seaports have already dropped by roughly 30% since 2023. The architecture for deeper intra-continental trade is being built piece by piece, but a continental commodity exchange would mark a qualitative leap, moving Africa from price-taker to price-setter on its own resources. 🤝 The deeper message is one of leadership by example. For years, the integration debate has been carried by communiqués and frameworks. Tinubu's challenge cuts through that. The two giants of the continent should stop debating who should move first and instead move together. That is what pan-African capitalism looks like when it stops being a slogan, African producers trading African commodities on African platforms, settled in African currencies. 🇷🇼 The question Kigali is putting on the agenda this week is no longer whether the AfCFTA will be implemented. It is who will dare to build its missing institutions. #ACF2026 #AfricaCEOForum

@Leo7Seven_ @africaceoforum @NGRPresident @afreximbank @papss_africa ATG is the commodity exchange/trading platform, not payment rail. PAPSS is what provides payment rails.

@msuberum @africaceoforum @NGRPresident @afreximbank @papss_africa No. This is commodity exchange platform different from payment rail.

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CFOs in Nigeria are sitting on a supply chain risk they haven't fully priced. It's hiding inside their own payment terms. Extending supplier payment terms to 60, 90 or 120 days feels like a treasury win.

@AkinMoses1 Very good write up, Tunde. However, I think otherwise about your position on Nigeria having a revenue problem and not a cost problem. I think we’ve both. In as much as the economy is not as productive as it should be, we’ve too many wastages especially from the public sector

Super excited when I heard about Taiwo being made the Minister of Finance. Some even asked when I'm moving to Abuja to join him😁. Before I pack my bags to Aso Villa, I took some time to pen some thoughts on the man, and the assignment ahead of him. It's not an easy road ahead, but I believe he is up to the task. Enjoy the read! tinyurl.com/MofTunde

If your business depends on a functioning supplier ecosystem — I'm happy to walk through how reverse factoring works in practice. That's the conversation worth having. #SupplyChainFinance #CFO #ReverseFactoring #WorkingCapital #NigeriaBusiness #GetCapsa #TradeFinance

CFOs who figure this out first don't just get better supplier relationships. They get a structural competitive advantage over every competitor whose supply chain is quietly degrading behind a 90-day payment cycle. That's not a soft benefit. That's a strategic moat.

What's your company's payment term policy? When did you last review it? #TradeFinance #SMEFinance #Nigeria #GetCapsa

It's: how do we fix their cash flow structurally? A supplier who runs out of working capital isn't just a financial inconvenience. They're a broken link in your supply chain. And broken links cost you far more than the invoice you delayed paying.

Most Nigerian businesses aren't failing because of bad products. They're failing because the world changed — and their payment terms didn't. Thread 🧵