Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has given a transparent trace that the nation’s land borders could also be reopened quickly.
The borders which have been closed since August 2019.
However chatting with State House correspondents on Wednesday, Ahmed stated the presidential committee arrange on the matter has accomplished its job and has really useful its reopening.
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She stated the committee would quickly submit its report back to President Muhammadu Buhari, following which a proper pronouncement could be made on the matter.
Ahmed nonetheless didn’t reveal when the report might be submitted and the way quickly the land borders might be reopened.
Nigeria closed its land borders last year, in a bid to curtail unlawful importation of medicine, small arms and agricultural merchandise into the nation from neighbouring West African nations.