The Nigerian Customs Services and its South Africa counterpart are to collaborate in the area of Port Management and capacity building.
The Comptroller General of Nigerian Customs Service, Alhaji Dikko Abdullahi that Nigeria will in turn study South Africa’s border management system while offering Pretoria its expert knowledge in port administration and capacity building according to the Voice of Nigeria.
Alhaji Dikko said countries including the Unites States, Argentina and Japan have indicated their willingness to enter into a mutual customs agreements with Nigeria because of its efficiency in port management particularly in the last 36months.
The Nigerian Comptroller General was in Pretoria South Africa to sign a memorandum of understanding with the South African Revenue Services, SARS on cooperation in customs management and exchange of information.
Meanwhile the South African Commissioner for Revenue Service, [SARS] George Magashula also said that Nigeria and South Africa need to collaborate in customs management as a way of boosting cooperation and efficient management of the volume of trade that exists between both countries.
Mr. Magashula said both countries contribute half of the continents total Gross Domestic Product which amounts to a whooping 1.1Trillion US Dollars per annum.
He said South Africa would be glad to take advantage of the Nigerian Customs College in Abuja for the training of its custom officials instead of using facilities outside the continent which is not cost effective.
The SARS commissioner said that Nigerian and South African markets remain the most attractive for export and import business because of their peculiar features.
