{"id":73029,"date":"2025-08-13T17:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73029"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:47:07","slug":"customs-firs-push-ahead-on-landmark-trade-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/13\/customs-firs-push-ahead-on-landmark-trade-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs, FIRS Push Ahead on Landmark Trade Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), are stepping up collaboration to fast-track the National Single Window (NSW), project, a flagship initiative of President Bola Tinubu aimed at revolutionizing Nigeria\u2019s import and export processes and boosting revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Senior officials from both agencies met at the Customs headquarters in Abuja to review progress, with discussions centering on critical system integration ahead of the planned first-quarter 2026 launch.<\/p>\n<p>The NSW will serve as a centralized digital platform to streamline trade transactions, cut clearance times, and reduce costs for businesses.<\/p>\n<p>FIRS Executive Chairman, Dr. Zacch Adedeji, assured full commitment to meeting the presidency\u2019s deadline, while Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, described the project as a strategic policy for enhancing Nigeria\u2019s trade competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Once operational, the NSW is expected to deliver faster cargo clearance, eliminate excessive bureaucracy, and improve Nigeria\u2019s standing in global trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Anifowoshe Oladipupo The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), are stepping up collaboration to fast-track the National Single Window (NSW), project, a flagship initiative of President Bola Tinubu aimed at revolutionizing Nigeria\u2019s import and export processes and boosting revenue. Senior officials from both agencies met at the Customs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73029","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=73029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73031,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73029\/revisions\/73031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}