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Increase in transport cost in accessing ports fuelling diversion – Custom Agents

The increase in transport cost in Nigerian ports that started two years ago before the difficulty of trucks and persons in accessing the ports is encourages the diversion of cargo to neighbouring West African Ports, custom agents in the country have said. The situation has been worsened by delay being suffered due to gridlock on […]

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₦4.18 trillion commodities exported through Apapa Port in Q1

Between January and March this year, commodities worth ₦4.18 trillion were exported through the Apapa Port in Lagos, figures obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics revealed. An analysis of the foreign trade statistics by our correspondent showed that the ₦4.18 trillion worth of exported commodities through the Apapa Port was 89.1 per cent of […]

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Dangote denies 10-year tax holiday for constructing Apapa road

Management of Dangote Group has denied speculations that the company would benefit from a 10-year tax holiday after constructing the 35-kilometre Apapa to Oworonshoki end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The company made this denial at a media briefing in Lagos on Monday. The Group Executive Director, Strategy, Portfolio Development and Capital Projects, Dangote Industries Limited, […]

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Nigeria Customs Service, NCS

Apapa customs posts ₦167 billion in first half 2017

Apapa Area Command has announced that a total of ₦165,743,266,107.71 revenue was collected for the first half of the year. In a statement, the command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Ms Nkeiru Nwala, said that the amount represents 49.0 per cent collection on target for the year 2017. When compared with the total collection during the […]

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Babatunde Fashola

FG to reconstruct Apapa road with ₦100 billion – Fashola

The design and other requirements needed for the reconstruction of the Apapa road in Lagos State are ready, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said. He also reiterated that the Apapa area was a priority to the Federal Government under the ministry’s programme to solve the issue of roads leading […]

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