Nigeria: Nigerian Customs admits physical checks take hours as cargoes spend 5 days at ports — Africa Links 24

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has admitted that physical examination of containers at the ports takes only a few hours, even as cargoes spend an average of five days before exiting the port.

The revelation followed a Time Release Study conducted at the Tin Can Island Port, Lagos, as part of efforts by the service to identify the real causes of delays in…