The claim by Hameed Ali, comptroller general of the Nigerian Customs Service, that border closure has increased the agency’s revenue appears to be a far-cry from available data, a fact check by BusinessDay has revealed. Nigeria had on August 20 shut its borders with Benin Republic in order, the
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