By Ifenyinwa Obi

LAGOS – The Nigeria Customs Service is to introduce a single window platform that will facilitate clearance procedure for imported and exported goods.

Comptroller-General of Customs, Mr Abdullahi Dikko, who spoke at the closing ceremony of the 17th conference of Customs Directors-General of the West and Central Africa regions of the World Customs Organisations, WCO, in Cotonou, said the single window procedure, which formed the major focus of the conference, would be implemented electronically.

Dikko said the system, which will ensure that all documents were processed electronically through one platform, would save time and cost.

He said all Nigeria needed at the moment was time to study the single window procedure to avoid problems that might occur with its use in the future.

He said: “You can see that every country’s presentation came with a problem, so Nigeria will study it very well to understand how the single window works in other countries. We are taking our time. We are not yet late and soon, we will have our own and am sure it is going to work perfectly well.”