According to the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), an agreement has been reached with its neighboring country, Benin Republic to permit importers to clear their goods from the port in Cotonou.

At the conclusion of a two-day working visit by the director-general and senior officials of the customs service of the Benin Republic, Adewale Adeniyi, acting comptroller-general of the NCS, addressed the audience in Abuja on Tuesday.

According to Adeniyi, the meeting’s objectives were to reduce smuggling and improve commercial ties between Nigeria and the Benin Republic. In response to inquiries on the port’s opening, Adeniyi stated that customs would make sure that proper procedure was followed.

“We are building confidence in the system offered by the Republic of Benin, our importers are using their ports and vice-versa. If there are people in the Benin Republic who want to use our ports, we try to build trust in our systems,” the director general stated.

Source: Business Insider