₦airaland Forum

Bluebolt:
Its a magic!
Some full grown palm trees were transplanted there.

bigtt76:
I mean ...its a simpu sturv

Same thing with tax payments in Nigeria, make it easy for people to self assess themselves online, pay online and generate their tax clearance certificate online but no ....they must come to your office and you to theirs to pay and struggle to collect tax clearance certificate ....why won't people shun paying

wink2015:
Shame on you Obasanjo.

You had the opportunity of restructuring Nigeria during military government but you had that opportunity to slip away.

Now the yoruba are being punish by the northern political leadership through border closure.

Meanwhile, goods such as rice is flowing steadily.

Buhari use border closure to punish the yorubas.

anonimi:
You are joking, right?
What of generators, let us close their imports also.


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bigtt76:
Thanks Durchmann ......I agree absolutely but its because the government made it that way. If they can decongest the ports, make clearing faster and stress-free, trust me no amount of reduction the Togolese or Beninoise make to their port charges will make our businessmen still embrace their ports.

The savings made from the reduction at Togo/Benin end is spent on transporting by road to the final destination in Nigeria. This would be cheaper if Nigeria make port clearing seamless and stress-free like Togo and Benin offers. The government is the main enabler of smuggling in Nigeria. Review your policies and see if smuggling would be attractive.

Durchmann:
I agree with your suggestions but we have to look at the situation on ground.

Benin and Togo can actually adapt to whatever measures we place to provide better port services. It's just like an army fighting against a militant unit using guerrilla warfare. It's difficult to curtail such strategies.

In my opinion, I would advise Government to reform the Customs Services with new and better work regulations and ethics.

There should be a carrot and stick approach to how customs officers are administered. I don't see why contraband goods should still be found in our markets and officers and men of the Customs guarding a certain border get their take home pay intact. We need to change the working rules of the Customs Service (and even the civil service at large) in order to effectively challenge and gradually stifle the crooked nature of the system. Prosecution is not enough.

On a good day, I will drop practical measures we can utilise to do this.

Durchmann:
Very explicit.


Bigtt76 , the highlighted is actually for you.

I wanted to respond to your suggestion on reformed port operations but Naptu2 did it faster. Here lies the reason why we have serial border closures from time to time.

bigtt76:
Thanks Durchmann ......I agree absolutely but its because the government made it that way. If they can decongest the ports, make clearing faster and stress-free, trust me no amount of reduction the Togolese or Beninoise make to their port charges will make our businessmen still embrace their ports.

The savings made from the reduction at Togo/Benin end is spent on transporting by road to the final destination in Nigeria. This would be cheaper if Nigeria make port clearing seamless and stress-free like Togo and Benin offers. The government is the main enabler of smuggling in Nigeria. Review your policies and see if smuggling would be attractive.

naptu2:
It's actually both, not either or.


1) Nigeria needs to make its ports and methods of transporting goods more efficient. We've all seen the long line of trucks that took over all the approaches to Apapa and Tin Can Island ports. People should be able to easily move goods to and from the ports. In this regard, the return of the rail lines into the port (via the new Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge line) will help.


2) The bureaucratic bottlenecks that hamper clearing of goods from the ports is another issue. Hopefully this will be tackled with the Ease of Doing Business policy.

3) The reform of the Customs Service is absolutely important, particularly with regards to improving aerial surveillance and reducing corruption.

4) But it's also important that there's cooperation between both governments, particularly in the area of the repackaging of goods from Asia. I think that Nigeria should also get Ecowas involved because it is a violation of the Ecowas protocol. I don't think that either Obasanjo or Buhari believes that closure of the border is the solution to the problem (it isn't). Rather they both closed the border as a means to force Benin Republic to the negotiation table. In Obasanjo's case, the closure of the border forced Benin to hand over Amani Tidjani and the agree to a joint border force.

naptu2:
It's actually both, not either or.


1) Nigeria needs to make its ports and methods of transporting goods more efficient. We've all seen the long line of trucks that took over all the approaches to Apapa and Tin Can Island ports. People should be able to easily move goods to and from the ports. In this regard, the return of the rail lines into the port (via the new Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge line) will help.


2) The bureaucratic bottlenecks that hamper clearing of goods from the ports is another issue. Hopefully this will be tackled with the Ease of Doing Business policy.

3) The reform of the Customs Service is absolutely important, particularly with regards to improving aerial surveillance and reducing corruption.

4) But it's also important that there's cooperation between both governments, particularly in the area of the repackaging of goods from Asia. I think that Nigeria should also get Ecowas involved because it is a violation of the Ecowas protocol. I don't think that either Obasanjo or Buhari believes that closure of the border is the solution to the problem (it isn't). Rather they both closed the border as a means to force Benin Republic to the negotiation table. In Obasanjo's case, the closure of the border forced Benin to hand over Amani Tidjani and the agree to a joint border force.

mozona:
abeg make open the border...

adonko don cost

GeneralPula:
I think Benin would be freed very soon! Fucck Ghana and others till 2050!

GENEGIRIA:
Fvck ya and your smelly sh1thole zoo.

juman:
Why do we have just one functioning port in nigeria?

A country of two hundred million people o.

Qoko:
Se na only adonko dey Nig? Infact adonko has one offensive odour I hate so much