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Nigeria’s emerging digital Customs architecture is set to provide the template for a $3.1 billion African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Customs Modernisation Project aimed at harmonising Customs procedures and facilitating the movement of goods across African borders. The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) said the adoption of Nigeria’s Customs Modernisation Project as the model […]

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A, Ikeja, Lagos, has intercepted 220 consignments of prohibited and smuggled goods valued at ₦3.24 billion and recovered ₦728.98 million in revenue from under-declarations, false declarations and other customs violations. The seizures, according to the Service, were recorded through intelligence-led enforcement operations aimed at disrupting

The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, has called for stronger legislative collaboration to sustain the Service’s ongoing digital transformation and build a more efficient, transparent and technology-driven customs administration. Adeniyi made the call on August 5, 2026, while delivering the keynote address at a two-day retreat organised for members of

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has disclosed that the FCT Administration is considering banning the operations of commercial motorcycles, popularly known as okada, and tricycles (keke napep) within the Abuja city centre as part of renewed efforts to tackle insecurity. Wike made the disclosure following a meeting of the FCT