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Hi Tboy, are u still in the business of biscuits?

Can anyone guide me on the business of imported biscuits in Nigeria? I walked into a supermarket in Lagos and saw some biscuits from Europe selling for over =N=500 per packet (150g packet), and I found this to be very expensive. I thought Nigeria was a place where only cheap products survive.

Can someone possibly point me towards the website where all the products registered by NAFDAC are listed?

Thanks, highly appreciated.

What are the documents required when you want to import goods? What's the banking process?
What is the procedure?
What do I need to do to provide to clear my goods from the port?

Any help or advise will be appreciated, thanks.
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Is it correct that if you buy a second hand car from a private guy in the US and ship it to yourself in Nigeria, you can drive it withut doing any work to it (like tropicalisation, etc)?

Would anyone know what happened to NAFDAC certificates that were valid for imported food products, but those products got banned by the government (to promote local industries I presume).

[For your info: A NAFDAC registration certificate (and/or its renewal) is valid for a period of 5 years from the registration/renewal date.]

In 2003, the Federal Government banned the importation of various foods such as pastas, biscuits and such. Many of these products had valid NAFDAC certificates, some of which must have been registered or renewed just a year or two before the ban. In 2009/2010 the ban was lifted by the Federal Government and those pastas, biscuits etc could now be imported.

Did companies have to do fresh registrations again?

Does anyone know?

Would anyone know what happened to NAFDAC certificates that were valid for imported food products, but those products got banned by the government (to promote local industries I presume).

[For your info: A NAFDAC registration certificate (and/or its renewal) is valid for a period of 5 years from the registration/renewal date.]

In 2003, the Federal Government banned the importation of various foods such as pastas, biscuits and such. Many of these products had valid NAFDAC certificates, some of which must have been registered or renewed just a year or two before the ban. In 2009/2010 the ban was lifted by the Federal Government and those pastas, biscuits etc could now be imported.

Did companies have to do fresh registrations again?

Does anyone know?

I need some advice.

I wish to import a food product from Europe and distribute i Nigeria and I will be registering it with NAFDAC.

The trademark for the product has been registered by the foreign manufacturer in Abuja under their name.

I now wish to know how to proceed.

Any advice is welcome. Thanks.

Can I know the price for the Curve 4? I'm ready to buy one.

How much for a brand new Blackberry 9360 (Curve)?

Brand new?

Past governments have made promises and have not kept to many of them, some of these being the rehabilitation of the power sector, the repair of roads, the development of the industrial sector, investments in education and health etc etc.

Now we have the government saying that they are going to make certain investments with the funds that they will save from the fuel subsidy, such as the repair of refineries, the investment in the power sector, investments in the health sector, investments into infrastructure and so on.

At the same time there is quite a large number of Nigerian people who feel that a lot of the subsidy funds will inevitably be looted.

The question is: how does one hold the government to their promises? How do we ensure that the strikes and protests eventually lead to a greater benefit for the Nigerian people?

How is it that the various agencies (NLC and others) have not got a commitment or guarantee from the government that the said investments will be made?

Why is it that the EFCC have not gotten involved in the government's current promises?

My questions may be elementary, but at some level these have been the sort of things that people have been talking about.

The issue is not promises. The issue is commitment. The issue is a guarantee to the people.

We all know that past governments have made certain investments into roads ad other areas when they did not have funds from the fuel subsidy.

And here is a point to ponder - if you notice some roads that are repaired, you will notice that every year or every two years the same road will need repairing again. This can only be for one of two reasons: that the underlying problem is the road foundation, or that the issue is that the road contract will be periodically awarded due to the fact that money will be made on every contract. Either way, the problem can be solved.

I understand that the current strike last week has also pointed to the problem of adressing corruption. But again I will say this - there is a difference in promising to address corruption, and guaranteeing to address corruption.

Go to a bank and promise to pay them back if they give you a loan. You simply won't get the loan. What they want is a guarantee. In the same way, after so many years of non-performing promises and so many people suffering due to that, the people have a right to hold the government to their promise.

I question the motivation of people trying to convince others that they are being paid for content jobs. If I was getting paid, I would not be convincing others that I am getting paid. I would rather try to take more jobs for myself from contentman than create competition for myself by convincing others that they can also get paid.
Also at some point your bank account details will be asked for payment to be made to your account, by which time you would have submitted your content.
Pls dont take this post of mine as anything as criticism or anything; I'm just trying to see how this works, thats all.

I have a Blackberry 8900 and use the subscription from MTN for which I pay =N=5,000 per month (prepaid).

When I first got the BB, I asked MTN if I would be able to watch streaming videos like youtube and things like that under the subscription. They assured me that I could do this. So imagine my surprise when I went online with my BB and watched a 3-min video and got charged =N=1,200 for that!!  (my balance on *556# reduced by 1,200)

Does anyone know how many Mb of downloads the subscription offers? And how do I know if any sites I visit online thru my BB will charge me from my normal balance?
Thanks