Stakeholders bear coaching for Nationwide Single Window rollout

Stakeholders have been educated by the Nationwide Single Window Committee forward of the platform’s March launch.

Talking throughout a city corridor assembly held in Apapa just lately, the Director of the NSW Committee, Mr Tola Fakolade, urged importers, exporters, customs brokers, and freight associations to make the most of the coaching periods, emphasising that the coaching was designed to information customers on how the system works, find out how to navigate it, and find out how to full all of the processes included in section one of many undertaking.

“Stakeholders have to prioritise this coaching in order that once we go reside, you’ll not encounter difficulties finishing the processes. Please register; it is vitally essential as a result of every classroom measurement is restricted, and we need to accommodate everybody correctly.”

This coaching is extraordinarily essential,” Fakolade suggested.

He defined that the coaching can be hands-on, with laptops offered for members to achieve sensible expertise with the system. Fakolade added that the committee is establishing a transition unit comprising representatives from all companies concerned within the first section, together with the Requirements Organisation of Nigeria, Nigeria Customs Service, Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service, Nationwide Company for Meals and Drug Administration and Management, and Nationwide Environmental Requirements and Rules Enforcement Company.

“We may even seek the advice of with freight forwarders and licensed customs brokers to make sure we’ve got case research protecting totally different eventualities and potential challenges. Every company can be dealt with in a different way; the best way we deal with NAFDAC circumstances will differ from how we deal with SON circumstances, however we’ll guarantee readability all through. We’re additionally offering assist desks and walk-in centres. The objective is to make sure that the transition is seamless,” he stated.

The top-user coaching started on 16 February 2026, with periods going down in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, and different areas. There are six places in Lagos alone, permitting members to decide on probably the most handy possibility.

The NSW is a flagship Federal Authorities initiative geared toward digitising and unifying Nigeria’s commerce processes. It was formally commissioned by President Bola Tinubu on 16 April 2024 to remodel how cross-border commerce documentation is submitted, processed, and accepted. The President additionally directed that the NSW platform be totally operational by the primary quarter of 2026, a goal bolstered throughout a number of authorities conferences and official directives.