Nigeria: Government Authorities To Reopen Border With Benin Republic

Last updated on September 11th, 2021 at 08:10 am

The Nigerian government has decided to lift the ban on land border, this means that all ban place against neighboring state has come to an end. The ban was placed due to the illegal importation of products.

Under President Muhammadu Buhari’s directions, “the prohibition on importation of rice, poultry and other restricted items actually stays alive.

President Buhari paralyzed Nigeria’s neighbors when he startlingly shut the nation’s fringes to products exchange, saying the opportunity had arrived to pulverize stash exchange.

The one-sided move was scrutinized for abusing business and opportunity of development deals endorsed under the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

The ban undoubtedly affected importation of goods and services from one country to another, traders would be ecstatic about the latest development of the lifting of the ban.