Export expansion Grant
15 May 2019
Nigeria’s non-oil export has continued to suffer a huge setback due to various challenges. Top on the list include, logistics challenges in moving products to the ports and the lingering issue of unsettled Export Expansion Grant (EEG) claims. With the unsettled incentives converted to promissory notes, there are concerns among operators about the payment arrangement…
5 May 2019
Sir: The challenges of exporting home-grown products came on the front burner with complaints from exporters that the Federal Government...
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Despite complaints by members of the Organised Private Sector (OPS) on access to foreign exchange to import raw materials, latest figures from the Central Bank of Nigeria ...
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The Nigerian Customs may have continued to be in the web as regards the allegations of frustrating the National Single Window agenda of the Federal Government.
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Even as the Export Expansion Grant (EEG) undergoing review by the federal government, the Executive Director, Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Segun Awolowo, has said that the non-oil export has increased from $600 million to $3 billion.
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To avert failure of the intervention schemes created to boost non-oil export in the country as a result of poor implementation and lack of stakeholder engagement ...
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