Badagry Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (BACCIMA) has urged women in business to engage in legitimate cross-border trade without being labelled as smugglers.

In a move to empower small businesses and informal sector women traders, the Lagos State Government has unveiled a N500bn fund for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, with a special focus on ...

Three months after Malawi and Tanzania pledged to finalise a Simplified Trade Regime (STR) agreement to enhance  cross-border ...

To strengthen Nigeria’s non-oil export base and formalise informal trade flows, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), in collaboration with the ...

By Ebenezer YALLEY Cross-border payments have become a convenient form of service for trade facilitation, scaling traditional modes of payment. Data compiled by Statista shows that in 2023, the ...

Held on 9th July, the engagement was part of NEPC’s Informal Cross-Border Trade (ICBT) programme designed to integrate informal exports into Nigeria’s official economic data.

“We hope informal trade will be more organized and security improve among border communities. We also hope the peace initiate going on in Addis Ababa Ethiopia for South Sudan will bring peace in ...

Ms Nkhoma added that the success of the collaboration with ECOWAS has been instrumental in developing Category 5 of the TLS which will assess Informal Cross-Border Trade Processes at border posts.