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 […]
IFDC complements FG’s farmers registration exercise
THE International Fertiliser Development Centre, IFDC, has further complemented the registration of farmers under the Federal Government’s Growth Enhancement Support Scheme, GES, with ‘GES Touch And Pay’, GES-TAP.
Nigeria’s retail sector has bright future — Oduoza
Phillips Oduoza, the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, says that Nigeria’s retail sector holds huge potential for growth. Oduoza said this in a keynote address at the 2014 ‘Retail Leaders Conference held at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos
Group embarks on entrepreneurship programme to fight poverty, unemployment
The Ambassadors Initiative for Development and Empowerment, a civil society organisation (CSO), says it is running an entrepreneurial training programme to fight poverty and youth unemployment in the country
Quarantine Service eases process of certification
The National Agricultural Quarantine Services (NAQS) has come up with structures that will ease the procurement of necessary documents for agriculture produce export and import.
The burden of insecurity on the Nigerian economy
Nigeria’s nominal Gross Domestic Product, GDP, now stands at $509.9 billion, making the nation’s economy the largest in Africa and the 26th in the world, according to the results of the rebasing exercise of the federal government.
