File photo of President Bola Tinubu.
President Bola Tinubu has once again welcomed the growing continental recognition of the Nigeria Customs Service modernisation project, describing the development as a validation of Nigeria’s growing capacity to develop homegrown solutions for the wider African market.
Tinubu also commended the selection of a subsidiary of Nigerian-owned Bergmans Security Consultant and Supplies Limited for a 20-year, multi-billion-dollar African Continental Free Trade Area Customs Modernisation Project.
In a recent statement, the National Public Relations Officer of the Service, Abdullahi Maiwada, said the President’s commendation was conveyed in a State House press release issued on Monday by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, following the selection of Bergmans’ subsidiary, AfriTrade CMP Limited, to implement the continental project, which is designed to deploy digital and physical infrastructure to enhance customs processes, cargo tracking, border management and trade-data exchange across participating African countries.
According to President Tinubu, the development is particularly significant because another subsidiary of the Nigerian firm, Trade Modernisation Project Limited, is already implementing Nigeria’s homegrown customs modernisation programme through the NCS, “demonstrating the depth of Nigerian expertise now shaping the future of customs administration and continental trade infrastructure.”
