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Trade Expert Backs Customs Clampdown on EPZs, Bonded Terminals, Demands Their Performance Audit
LAGOS — Principal Consultant, International Trade Advisory Services Ltd, Okey Ibeke, has backed the Nigeria Customs Service’s suspension of further transire processing for bonded...
Customs, Trade Diplomacy and the Push to Expand Nigerian Export Markets
By Okey IBEKE
Nigeria’s export ambitions are increasingly being shaped not only by what the country produces, but by how efficiently its goods can cross...
NIMASA’s N25T Blue Economy Dream: Local Capacity and Limits of Abstract Projections
Business and Maritime West Africa Editorial
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency’s latest attempt to galvanise investment in Nigeria’s blue economy comes with an...
Eleme Healthcare Gets Boost as Nigeria Customs Commissions Rehabilitated Facility
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has commissioned the rehabilitated Ebubu Primary Healthcare Centre in Eleme, Rivers State, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility...
BRICS Summit: Nigeria, India Seek $15bn Trade Revival, Renewed Crude Sales
Nigeria and India are seeking to rebuild their economic relationship and return bilateral trade to its previous peak of nearly $15 billion, with renewed...
Customs Modernisation, Human Capital Development and Nigeria’s Digital AfCFTA Journey
By Okey IBEKE
For decades, the Nigeria Customs Service was largely associated with physical cargo examination, revenue collection, seizures, border enforcement and the paperwork that...
Marine and Blue Economy: The ₦1.83tn Revenue and State of Nigeria’s Maritime Industry
Business and Maritime West Africa Analysis
The Federal Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy has presented an impressive scorecard of the reforms undertaken since its...
Customs Seizes N43.5bn Narcotics, Droned, Expired Goods at Apapa Port
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted narcotics, controlled pharmaceuticals, drones and expired goods valued at N43.5 billion at the Apapa Port in Lagos.
The...
Nigeria, Cameroon Bilateral Customs Coalition Set to Streamline Mfum-Ekok Border Trade
Nigeria, Cameroon Bilateral Customs Coalition Set to Streamline Mfum-Ekok Border TradeThe Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Cameroon Customs Administration have launched a joint...
NPERA Act: Now that there is a Real Ports Economic Regulator
- [ ] The Nigerian Shippers Council was designated the interim economic regulator of Nigeria’s ports in 2014. The responsibility was further reinforced through the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (Port Economic Regulator) Order and the Port Economic Regulations of 2015.
