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 […]
Your business doesn’t grow until you reinvest in it — Bolanle Adewole, Director, TLP
A lawyer turned educationist out of love for providing top-notch education for children aged 1-12, Mrs Bolanle Adewole is the Founder/Director of Lagos-based school, The Learning Place (TLP) and also TLP Centre, a centre for children with autism and other related developmental disorders.
SEC, NBA to partner on capital market development
The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, has announced plan to work together with the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) to facilitate capital market development.
‘Shipping industry can create 5m jobs in 4 yrs’
The newly elected president of the Nigeria Shipowners Association, NISA, Captain Niyi Labinjo has said that the shipping sector of the maritime industry can generate five million jobs over the next four years.
LCCI flays Customs over hike in invoice values
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has petitioned the Presidency and the Coordinating Minister for the Economy against the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over allegation of arbitrary increase of the value of invoice of imported items from 50 to 100 percent to drive up collectable revenue.
First Watch: What the next governor of Lagos State should do for us (11)
When one is coming out of the Ogudu G.R.A. and one wishes to travel towards Oworonshoki, the street one passes through and the adjoining streets make up an open market where tomatoes, peppers and other food items are on display for sale.
