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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has welcomed the adoption of Nigeria’s customs modernisation model for a continental AfCFTA project, describing the development as a major validation of the country’s growing capacity to provide homegrown digital solutions for African trade.

Tinubu also commended Nigerian-owned Bergmans Security Consultant and Supplies Limited after its subsidiary, AfriTrade CMP Limited, was selected to implement the 20-year, multi-billion-dollar AfCFTA Customs Modernisation Project.

The project is expected to deploy digital and physical infrastructure for customs processing, cargo tracking, border management and trade-data exchange across participating African countries.

The President said the development demonstrated that solutions developed and tested in Nigeria could be adapted to address challenges across the continent.

“What has been built and tested in Nigeria is now providing a model for the continent. This is how African integration should work: Africans building African solutions for African opportunities,” Tinubu said.

He said Nigeria must go beyond participating in Africa’s single market by contributing the technology, infrastructure and expertise needed to make continental trade integration effective.

“Under our Nigeria First policy, we will continue to create opportunities for capable Nigerian businesses to compete at home, across Africa and globally,” the President added.

Tinubu commended Bergmans, AfriTrade CMP Limited, Trade Modernisation Project Limited, the Nigeria Customs Service and Comptroller-General Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, as well as Nigerian professionals involved in the modernisation programme.

AfCFTA Secretary-General Wamkele Mene visited the Nigeria Customs Service headquarters in Abuja during his visit for the signing of the agreement and inspected the Nigerian customs modernisation programme.

Mene described B’Odogwu, Nigeria’s indigenous Unified Customs Management System, as a model that could support customs transformation across Africa.

He disclosed that non-African companies had also offered to provide similar services, but AfCFTA opted for an African solution, highlighting the continent’s growing technological capacity and expertise.

Members of the Senate Committee on Customs, led by its chairman, Senator Jibrin Isah, also participated in the visit after concluding a two-day retreat on customs modernisation and reforms.

Isah said the lawmakers were impressed by the systems they witnessed and had become advocates of the modernisation programme.

B’Odogwu, which was first piloted in October 2024, has become a key component of Nigeria’s customs reform programme, alongside cargo tracking, data infrastructure, surveillance, risk management and non-intrusive inspection systems.

The programme is also being integrated with the National Single Window, launched in March 2026 as a single digital gateway for cross-border trade processes.

Tinubu said the wider adoption of Nigeria’s customs experience could contribute to reducing delays and costs associated with movement of goods across African borders.

“The promise of AfCFTA will be realised when goods can move across African borders faster, at lower cost and with fewer barriers. Nigeria is ready to contribute its experience, innovation and enterprise to that future,” he said.

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