{"id":65343,"date":"2025-05-06T02:08:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T02:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65343"},"modified":"2025-05-06T02:08:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T02:08:44","slug":"customs-goes-digital-on-cash-declarations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/06\/customs-goes-digital-on-cash-declarations\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs Goes Digital on Cash Declarations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Travellers flying in and out of Nigeria can now declare cash online, as the Nigeria Customs Service rolls out a new digital platform at Abuja\u2019s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Unveiled on April 9, the e-Currency Declaration Form aims to monitor cross-border cash movement and boost national security.<\/p>\n<p>In its trial run, 69 declarations were filed\u2014mostly outbound\u2014totaling over $1.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Comptroller-General Bashir Adeniyi described the move as part of Nigeria\u2019s alignment with global anti-money laundering standards.<\/p>\n<p>With the Abuja launch deemed a success, the digital system is set to expand to other airports and border points across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Travellers flying in and out of Nigeria can now declare cash online, as the Nigeria Customs Service rolls out a new digital platform at Abuja\u2019s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. Unveiled on April 9, the e-Currency Declaration Form aims to monitor cross-border cash movement and boost national security. In its trial run, 69 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65345,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65343\/revisions\/65345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}