Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has realised N97.15 billion from import duty between January and May this year.

THE nation's slow pace at accessing gains of the African Growth and Opportunities Acts (AGOA) may have been self-inflicted, going by disclosure from a top government official.

NIGERIANS exporters last week made history in Lagos as stakeholders in the manufacturing and export industry came together at the first batch of shipment of Nigerian goods to Liberia and 125 different types of products were packaged in a 20-foot

President Paul Kagame, in his speech at the East African Community summit in Kigali last week, decried the obstacles to trade and business in the region.

The leather industry in Kenya holds much potential in terms of job creation and foreign exchange earnings, a value chain analyst has said.

OVER two million jobs are at risk if the Government implements the ban on exportation of scrap metals, the Uganda Scrap Metal Dealers and Exporters Association has warned.

Rwanda intends to reduce dependence on Kenya and Tanzania for business routes by building a rail line through DR Congo and Zambia to make the landlocked country economically independent, President Paul Kagame has said.