Trade facilitation: Customs unveils digital baggage import declaration
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS has announced the deployment of a Simplified Baggage Import Declaration System at the Seme Area Command. This marks a new phase in its drive for digital innovation, trade facilitation, and improved passenger clearance processes. The initiative is designed to streamline baggage declaration, reduce clearance time, and enhance transparency for legitimate […]
Re: SEC, investors and e-dividend portal
Last week, Investors Forum received the following emails from two readers with respect to the Electronic Dividend Mandate Management System (e-DMMS) portal.
Fuel: Scarcity takes toll on businesses, transport, others
Few days to Christmas, Nigerians are still lamenting the persistent fuel scarcity which has taken its toll on business activities as well as food items in the country.
Unlisted securities: Investors lose N26.39m in one week
Investors that trade on unlisted securities on NASD OTC Securities Exchange Plc lost N26.39 million of their investment in the market last week as apathy continues to pervade the entire capital market.
Africa energy to acquire 90% interest in South African oil, gas block
AFRICA Energy Corp has decided to buy 90 percent working interest and operatorship in Block 2B offshore South Africa.
Breaking the Nigerian Poverty Cycle through Entrepreneurial Revolution (2)
Thatcher’s radical policies, successfully adapted across the US, Europe and large parts of Asia, sparked off a new world order and confirmed the evolution of global economic powerhouses. For a uniquely placed country like Nigeria, blessed with resources but hexed with endemic problems, these events hold tremendous relevance and opportunity. They are also crucial to Nigeria making progress towards the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals of eradicating hunger and poverty and improving environmental sustainability, among others.
