May 26, 2026
By Efe Onodjae
Challenges arising from backlog clearing documents at the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, have slowed operations on the National Single Window, NSW, cargo clearing platform in the early phase of its rollout, officials NSW have disclosed.
Speaking during a media engagement in Lagos, Director of the NSW Secretariat, Tola Fakolade, said the platform experienced delays in approvals and processing due to difficulties encountered while reconciling data obtained from government agencies and international partners.
According to him, the challenges became more severe within the first few weeks after the platform went live, forcing authorities to establish a special data migration team to clean and transfer the records into the NSW system.
