{"id":18131,"date":"2025-10-21T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phmundial.com\/?p=18131"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:05:41","slug":"national-single-window-project-secretariat-customs-sensitize-eastern-zone-stakeholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/2025\/10\/21\/national-single-window-project-secretariat-customs-sensitize-eastern-zone-stakeholders\/","title":{"rendered":"National Single Window: Project Secretariat, Customs Sensitize Eastern Zone Stakeholders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By<em><strong> Bon Peters<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eThe Joint Stakeholders Forum of the National Single Window Project Secretariat and the Nigeria Customs Service have organized a sensitization programme for Stakeholders in the Eastern Zone.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eThe event which took place at the Banquet hall of Hotel presidential Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, witnessed the gathering of critical stakeholders in the maritime trade value chain especially from the Eastern Zone of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eThe Single Window Project according to the organizers is a legacy programme of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubus&#8217; quest for modalities necessary to be in place for Nigeria to attain a 1 trillion dollar economy by year 2030 in line with world economic growth projections for countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eIt was also reported that Nigeria has been more poised to align with the global drive to facilitate cross- order Trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eHence it was viewed that currently Nigeria&#8217;s import and Export procedures present major obstacles to trade, resulting in cumbansomness, insufficiency and lack of transparency in trade processes leading to major revenue losses and low-ease of doing business and affecting all trade stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eConsequently, the Federal government of Nigeria launched the National Single window project on April 16, 2024. to improve trade facilitation, enhance federal government revenue and improve national security at the Nigerian borders.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eThe Term NSW simply referred to a platform that would harmonize and streamline trade processes and procedures into a one stop- shop platform housing all Government related revenue collection agencies, Importers and exporters as well as other regulatory agencies of Government granting them a single access for declarations.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eThe NSW was configured in a way to accommodate all critical stakeholders involved in the trade value chain to the extent of visibility and interoperability.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eOrganisers say, in this case no stakeholder would operate in silos or territorial and so it was envisaged that the platform would accelerate trade processes for more efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eIn his welcome address, the National Single window project team lead and Head of Secretariat Mr Tola Fakolade , applauded the efforts of the Nigeria customs service , the CBN and others for their pioneering roles in digitization of trade processes.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eHe emphasized that the National Single window project was intended to harmonize the digital operational competences of all MDA&#8217;s and consolidation of the same to enable ease of doing business\u00a0 in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eHe went further to posit that \u201ceverybody here is important in trade facilitation&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eNoting that three categories of people were in attendance at the programme, those who have not heard about the single window, those who heard about it but did not understand what it was and those who knew about it and when it would be launched.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eFakolade, therefore assured the stakeholders of federal Governments full commitment towards deploying the NSW to enable Nigeria become a new business destination, even as he hoped that with the full implementation of National Single window, all bureaucratic bottlenecks hitherto hindering trade would be drastically reduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eSaying &#8220;It will ensure transparency in the system and enthrone predictability when transacting business&#8221;, adding &#8220;eventually reducing cost of doing Business and person to person contacts in the trade Ecosystem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eIn his opening remarks, the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi represented by the Zonal Coordinator, Customs Zone C, Headquarters Port Harcourt, Assistant Comptroller General of Customs, Kamal Mohammed\u00a0 welcomed the stakeholders to the event insisting that the event was a defining moment for trade facilitation<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eThe\u00a0 Customs boss called for collaboration of all stakeholders to make the project work, emphasizing that no single organization can achieve meaningful success in\u00a0 isolation but through collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eHe stated that with National Single Window, clearance process and procedures as well as documentation would be easier and faster thereby reducing cost of trade even as he said that collective purpose was the watchword.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200eOn his\u00a0 part, the Registrar ,Council for Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria\u00a0 (CRFFN), Mr Kingsley Igwe who was the keynote speaker informed the stakeholders of all the benefits of National Single Window\u00a0 urging them to take advantage of it to leverage in their businesses describing it as a one -Stop Shop.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bon Peters \u200e \u200e \u200eThe Joint Stakeholders Forum of the National Single Window Project Secretariat and the Nigeria Customs Service have organized a sensitization programme for Stakeholders in the Eastern Zone. \u200e \u200e \u200e \u200eThe event which took place at the Banquet hall of Hotel presidential Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, witnessed 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