1x2x3:
That's why I like Trump. He will hold those countries by their balls till they yield to his request. If Nigeria is gaint of West Africa then the president should remain firm with the border closure.

so why has trump not been able to make mexico pay for the wall?

Racoon:
Buhari simply is badluck.Anything he touch just go bad.This is one of the economic & diplomatic repercussion of this ill-advised decision but zombies cheered him on

Now Nigeria is being isolated by brother African nations though they to large extend depend on us for their economic survival too.
Abeg where is MannaBBQGrill

You are such a dingbat for this, and I suggest you ask people to educate u on how successful economies run.

Maybe the BBQ Sh*male is probably in some gayshop down asylum trying new vibrators and silicon dicks

Racoon:
Buhari simply is badluck.Anything he touch just go bad.This is one of the economic & diplomatic repercussion of this ill-advised decision but zombies cheered him on

Now Nigeria is being isolated by brother African nations though they to large extend depend on us for their economic survival too.
Abeg where is MannaBBQGrill

BORDER REMAINS CLOSED.

BORDER REMAINS CLOSED..

zangaozanga:
The border remain close no amount of blackmail will change that

Yes why not because I could see a similar border like the Mexico's one since cartel have overrun it.

Nonsense.

Racoon:
Buhari simply is badluck.Anything he touch just go bad.This is one of the economic & diplomatic repercussion of this ill-advised decision but zombies cheered him on

Now Nigeria is being isolated by brother African nations though they to large extend depend on us for their economic survival too.
Abeg where is MannaBBQGrill

see this one

This is what happens when you make a retired zombie soldier that has no idea of international trade or operations and make him head of customs (director general).Funny enough the one who appointed him to is clueless.Nothing worse than a country being led by ignorant leaders.it leads to chaos

1x2x3:
That's why I like Trump. He will hold those countries by their balls till they yield to his request. If Nigeria is gaint of West Africa then the president should remain firm with the border closure.

lol....how many countries has he held successfully? Please list then or hide your head in shame

1x2x3:
That's why I like Trump. He will hold those countries by their balls till they yield to his request. If Nigeria is gaint of West Africa then the president should remain firm with the border closure.

This one is comparing Trump with Buhari? Is just like comparing a first class brain with a brain filled with pap and saw-dust.

Light and darkness have nothing in common

A working country is different from a shithole

Spits



How

nototribalist:
If you believe this fake news you're on your own

the Borders are closed, Nothing goes out and nothing comes in.

how can they reject what they can't see. that border is not opening till 2050.

for example why should we use our Forex dollars to buy goods from europe and Asia and some people will now transfer it to Ghana. including fuel.

All African countries must keep what ever they import with their dollars and export things grown and produce in Africa. so therefore Benin republic keep your rice to yourself, Nigeria must sale their imported goods within Nigeria, and stop this wickedness of pushing it to Ecowas countries. when those goods are scarce back home the price goes high. what sort of wickedness is that.

let all Ecowas countries stress their own currency to bring in goods from Europe and Asia. period

Mention one commodity whose price has fallen since the border closure.
Jekojeko economist

*Benin Republic has a population of 12 million people. But it is the worlds 5th importer of rice. In 2018, it imported rice worth US$996m.*

*Benin is also world's largest importer of _used_ _cars_ and __second_ - _hand_ _clothing_ . All with a population of 12m people.*
*DO YOU WONDER HOW?.........*
*Don't!*

*98.2% of these imports into Benin are only on transit; their final destination is _NIGERIA_ !*
*Nigeria is world's largest consumer of used cars and second hand clothing, and is also Africa's largest consumer of Asian grown rice.*

*The problem here is that all these imported goods attract appropriate import duty and trade tax, which are paid to the Beninoise Government while the goods are thence SMUGGLED into Nigeria WITHOUT ANY PAYMENT to the Nigerian Government and, thereby, adding zero value to the Nigerian economy!*
*Sadly, THIS IS ALL DONE BY NIGERIANS!*


*Granted, ECOWAS/CEDEAO charter allows for free trade between member states, but _on_ _goods_ _produced_ _in_ _member_ _countries_ , and NOT on imports from other economic blocs.*

*Where foreign goods are transiting through a member country, and ending up in another member country, the ECOWAS charter stipulates that the country of transit MAY collect a token trade tax, and its Customs officials should then escort the goods to the border of the importing country and hand it over to the Customs officials of the importing country!*
*But what we see in the case of Benin Republic is that it collects _CUSTOMS_ _DUTY_ plus _TRADE_ _TAX_ , and then allows the goods to pass through its hinterland for onward smuggle into Nigeria!*

*This is a clear violation of ECOWAS statutes and no nation can condone such costly infraction.*

*Nigeria has tolerated this nonsense from Benin for far too long and it is time to stop the malpractice if we want Nigeria's economy to grow.*
*(Therefore, whoever cries foul because we have closed our borders to smugglers while we're putting our act together, IS AN ENEMY OF NIGERIA!)*

*Nigeria makes up about 74% of ECOWAS population and about 71% of its economy. It is ECOWAS that needs Nigeria and not the other way round!*

ANY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEMBER COUNTRIES MUST BE BASED ON EXTANT REGULATIONS!

Thisis2raw:
It's expected of them to retaliate, but my is opinion is ECOWAS leaders should have a round table talk

to discuss what? How to import PMS and AGO with nigerian subsidy money and divert it one country who don't purchase from stations but just in bottles from road side vendors ? Of flights from West Africa which Nigerians pay over 60 percent more to Europe or America and still touchdown to pick their citizens for a cheaper Rate? Haba

nototribalist:
If you believe this fake news you're on your own

the Borders are closed, Nothing goes out and nothing comes in.

how can they reject what they can't see. that border is not opening till 2050.

for example why should we use our Forex dollars to buy goods from europe and Asia and some people will now transfer it to Ghana. including fuel.

All African countries must keep what ever they import with their dollars and export things grown and produce in Africa. so therefore Benin republic keep your rice to yourself, Nigeria must sale their imported goods within Nigeria, and stop this wickedness of pushing it to Ecowas countries. when those goods are scarce back home the price goes high. What sort of evil is that?

let all Ecowas countries stress their currency to bring in goods from Europe and Asia. period

You and the 53 people that liked this your comment, including your pedophile president, don't know how economic policies work. Read what you wrote there and ask yourself if you have sense. Business owners are talking, and you that don't have a spoon to your name is calling it fake news.

EdiskyHarry:
when this APC government is done with Nigeria, Nigeria will never remain the same again, let some fools keep applauding failure and poverty, END WILL TELL

Guy on this particular I stand with Buhari.
You are misinformed.

NaijaDonCast:
Maybe the BBQ Sh*male is probably in some gayshop down asylum trying new vibrators and silicon dicks

the idiot don shop ban

Thisis2raw:
It's expected of them to retaliate, but my is opinion is ECOWAS leaders should have a round table talk

Media propaganda don't believe them sponsor news from importers and exporters

nototribalist:
If you believe this fake news you're on your own

the Borders are closed, Nothing goes out and nothing comes in.

how can they reject what they can't see. that border is not opening till 2050.

for example why should we use our Forex dollars to buy goods from europe and Asia and some people will now transfer it to Ghana. including fuel.

All African countries must keep what ever they import with their dollars and export things grown and produce in Africa. so therefore Benin republic keep your rice to yourself, Nigeria must sale their imported goods within Nigeria, and stop this wickedness of pushing it to Ecowas countries. when those goods are scarce back home the price goes high. what sort of wickedness is that.

let all Ecowas countries stress their own currency to bring in goods from Europe and Asia. period

Didn't you see "shipping" somewhere in the report?

NigeriaIsDoomed:
Notwithstanding the revenue increase the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, said it has achieved with the on-going partial border closure, exporters are counting their losses as countries within the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, sub-region have started rejecting Nigerian cargoes, apparently, as a form of retaliation against the land border closure.

This latest development, according to the exporters, is gradually crippling their businesses.

In a chat with Vanguard Maritime Report, Chief Executive Officer, Multi-mix Academy, an export oriented institution, Dr. Obiora Madu, disclosed that Nigerian exports within the ECOWAS region is decreasing due to the border closure, but he failed to give figures.

He stated: “It is definitely impacting negatively on the economy as the exports done within the ECOWAS region and our neighboring countries are now in decrease. These countries that benefit from the open border, since we have closed it, even though we used to export to them before, you don’t expect to get the level of cooperation that we are getting before because they are hit hard by these closed borders”.

He further admitted that exporting generally is becoming difficult as cargoes are now undergoing careful examinations before leaving the shores of the country. This, he said, has also impacted negatively on the volume and speed of export.

“The fact is that it definitely has impact on volume, it will also impact on speed and it will not be as swift as it used to be because of scrutiny”.

In the same vein, Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Institute of Export Operations and Management, IEOM, Ofon Udofia, who spoke with Vanguard Maritime Report, revealed that the country is losing a lot of money as most of the country’s products have these West African nations as export destinations.

He stated: “It is a big problem. We are losing money because when we talk about exporting goods, we are not only talking about exporting it to countries in Asia, Europe or America. We are also talking about exports taking place within the West African sub-region.

“We in the private sector, are victims of this border closure. Take a look at companies like Unilever, they supply goods to other African countries through Nigeria and for many years, they make use of the land borders.

“We have lost a lot of money because of this. Even Dangote who exports cement to Benin Republic has lost a lot”.

On making use of the waterways to transport these cargoes, Udofia argued that it is not yet feasible as Nigeria doesn’t have any national vessels that ply the Western Coast.

He added that the cost of shipping these goods will increase as the International shipping lines will be triggered to charge extra cost for shipments.

“Even when they say we can make use of the sea, do we have vessels? We don’t have vessels plying the West Coast or even a vessel that can carry the volume of what we are exporting.

“Even Maerskline Shipping Company, MSC, or any other international shipping line that will pick products from Nigeria and take it to these West African countries must charge extra fees.

“This is because we don’t have any shipping line. Which flag are we flying, we are just deceiving ourselves. When they said that we should use inland waterways for export, we are still negotiating on how we can partner with shipping lines and the ship is already in Nigerian waters, but we have to pay five percent duty of the cost of that vessel before it comes”.

Udofia also blamed government for not planning ahead of time before taking drastic decisions on such sensitive economic policy.

“This is not what you do over night because we are unprepared. Shipping is not like going to a market to buy a trailer, it goes beyond that. We are talking about shipping line that will be going across West and Central Africa which we don’t have, and it’s possibility is still in question”, he concluded.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/11/border-closure-ecowas-countries-reject-nigerian-goods/

Nigeria will open the border in the next 100 years .Buhari should stand by him.word

Smugglers trying everything possible to blackmail the president but we the good people of this country says : border remained closed.

bigboyk:


Didn't you see "shipping" somewhere in the report?

he said there is no vessels for shipping so how did he get the goods those unnamed ECOWAS country.

Nonsense

close the land borders still 2025

the sea and air borders are still opened

Joevics:

You and the 53 people that liked this your comment, including your pedophile president, don't know how economic policies work. Read what you wrote there and ask yourself if you have sense. Business owners are talking, and you that don't have a spoon to your name is calling it fake news.

Mr business owner pls give us the figure of the said goods and the name of the country that rejected it.
Criminals doing everything to see if buhari will change his mind but am sorry to tell you that buhari is not a push & start president.

1x2x3:
That's why I like Trump. He will hold those countries by their balls till they yield to his request. If Nigeria is gaint of West Africa then the president should remain firm with the border closure.

The same Trump that is in the process of being impeached?
No country is an island.
Newton's law states that for every action there is an opposite equal reaction.
Buhari made a BIG mistake. If the issue is rice import through the land border, security.
Stop those particular items from coming in.
Stop rice, fish, perishable goods, arms etc
Reform the customs and fish out the bad eggs.
Don't close the entire border and export.
WHY will you stop export through the land border - just doesn't make sense.
Communicate your actions way in advance. Give traders time to react and get their house in order.

likes for border closure, shares for against.

if they vex us we go invade all the ecowas subregion

Jones4190:
*Benin Republic has a population of 12 million people. But it is the worlds 5th importer of rice. In 2018, it imported rice worth US$996m.*

*Benin is also world's largest importer of _used_ _cars_ and __second_ - _hand_ _clothing_ . All with a population of 12m people.*
*DO YOU WONDER HOW?.........*
*Don't!*

*98.2% of these imports into Benin are only on transit; their final destination is _NIGERIA_ !*
*Nigeria is world's largest consumer of used cars and second hand clothing, and is also Africa's largest consumer of Asian grown rice.*

*The problem here is that all these imported goods attract appropriate import duty and trade tax, which are paid to the Beninoise Government while the goods are thence SMUGGLED into Nigeria WITHOUT ANY PAYMENT to the Nigerian Government and, thereby, adding zero value to the Nigerian economy!*
*Sadly, THIS IS ALL DONE BY NIGERIANS!*


*Granted, ECOWAS/CEDEAO charter allows for free trade between member states, but _on_ _goods_ _produced_ _in_ _member_ _countries_ , and NOT on imports from other economic blocs.*

*Where foreign goods are transiting through a member country, and ending up in another member country, the ECOWAS charter stipulates that the country of transit MAY collect a token trade tax, and its Customs officials should then escort the goods to the border of the importing country and hand it over to the Customs officials of the importing country!*
*But what we see in the case of Benin Republic is that it collects _CUSTOMS_ _DUTY_ plus _TRADE_ _TAX_ , and then allows the goods to pass through its hinterland for onward smuggle into Nigeria!*

*This is a clear violation of ECOWAS statutes and no nation can condone such costly infraction.*

*Nigeria has tolerated this nonsense from Benin for far too long and it is time to stop the malpractice if we want Nigeria's economy to grow.*
*(Therefore, whoever cries foul because we have closed our borders to smugglers while we're putting our act together, IS AN ENEMY OF NIGERIA!)*

*Nigeria makes up about 74% of ECOWAS population and about 71% of its economy. It is ECOWAS that needs Nigeria and not the other way round!*

ANY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEMBER COUNTRIES MUST BE BASED ON EXTANT REGULATIONS!

Thanks for the clarification.

The question now is what are the steps the Nigerian living in Benin should take to sustain their living as most of them rely solely on conveying their petit merchandise to Benin for retail?

Thisis2raw:
It's expected of them to retaliate, but my is opinion is ECOWAS leaders should have a round table talk

You are still talking of ECOWAS. At this point you should know that ECOWAS is dead. To each man his own

Johans1991:
Mr business owner pls give us the figure of the said goods and the name of the country that rejected it.
Criminals doing everything to see if buhari will change his mind but am sorry to tell you that buhari is not a push & start president.

The fact that you even believe Nigeria is benefiting anything from this says a lot about your level of understanding, I wont waste my time with you.

Racoon:
Buhari simply is badluck.Anything he touch just go bad.This is one of the economic & diplomatic repercussion of this ill-advised decision but zombies cheered him on

Now Nigeria is being isolated by brother African nations though they to large extend depend on us for their economic survival too.
Abeg where is MannaBBQGrill

other African countries didn't or should I say never liked us, they are only after the business side of us to boost their economies


move close to the borders and see how neighboring countries make more money of us going over there than coming to Nigeria

Without checking the source, I know it will be either vanguard, Telegraph, Punch or Tribune! Wailer Newspaper. Never see good press industry! If anything good happened, they will be reluctant to report and if reported also, they will only see the negative part. Your hate for PMB will soon destroy your companies!

Jones4190:
*Benin Republic has a population of 12 million people. But it is the worlds 5th importer of rice. In 2018, it imported rice worth US$996m.*

*Benin is also world's largest importer of _used_ _cars_ and __second_ - _hand_ _clothing_ . All with a population of 12m people.*
*DO YOU WONDER HOW?.........*
*Don't!*

*98.2% of these imports into Benin are only on transit; their final destination is _NIGERIA_ !*
*Nigeria is world's largest consumer of used cars and second hand clothing, and is also Africa's largest consumer of Asian grown rice.*

*The problem here is that all these imported goods attract appropriate import duty and trade tax, which are paid to the Beninoise Government while the goods are thence SMUGGLED into Nigeria WITHOUT ANY PAYMENT to the Nigerian Government and, thereby, adding zero value to the Nigerian economy!*
*Sadly, THIS IS ALL DONE BY NIGERIANS!*


*Granted, ECOWAS/CEDEAO charter allows for free trade between member states, but _on_ _goods_ _produced_ _in_ _member_ _countries_ , and NOT on imports from other economic blocs.*

*Where foreign goods are transiting through a member country, and ending up in another member country, the ECOWAS charter stipulates that the country of transit MAY collect a token trade tax, and its Customs officials should then escort the goods to the border of the importing country and hand it over to the Customs officials of the importing country!*
*But what we see in the case of Benin Republic is that it collects _CUSTOMS_ _DUTY_ plus _TRADE_ _TAX_ , and then allows the goods to pass through its hinterland for onward smuggle into Nigeria!*

*This is a clear violation of ECOWAS statutes and no nation can condone such costly infraction.*

*Nigeria has tolerated this nonsense from Benin for far too long and it is time to stop the malpractice if we want Nigeria's economy to grow.*
*(Therefore, whoever cries foul because we have closed our borders to smugglers while we're putting our act together, IS AN ENEMY OF NIGERIA!)*

*Nigeria makes up about 74% of ECOWAS population and about 71% of its economy. It is ECOWAS that needs Nigeria and not the other way round!*

ANY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEMBER COUNTRIES MUST BE BASED ON EXTANT REGULATIONS!

What are you yammering on about? Blaming other countries for the failed state of your country. Thats the Niggeriran way. Punish others for your short coming while failing to address the real issues. Y'all keep bragging about numbers forgetting that its not your numbers but the quality of your population. When a majority of your populace is wallowing in poverty and illiteracy is that something to be proud of? Truth is this move will force the other countries to adapt to other ways. Shey you have heard of the rail line btw cotonou and Niger . They will survive just siddon there