The Federal Government will begin testing the second phase of the National Single Window project next week as it moves to streamline export procedures, following the processing of 156,026 import licences and permits through the platform since its launch in March.
The Project Coordinator of the National Single Window, Tola Fakolade, disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, saying the government was working towards launching the first batch of agencies under the second phase before the end of the year.
The second phase will focus on exports, including the centralised processing of export licences, permits and certificates, export-related forms required by the Central Bank of Nigeria, and applications for import duty exemption certificates.
Fakolade said the project team had completed the initial work of reviewing existing processes, identifying gaps and developing streamlined procedures, with user acceptance testing scheduled to begin next week.
“We are starting our user acceptance testing for phase two next week, which is where we are actually bringing a sample of these agencies and some of our users to come and test the processes that have been customised and developed on the Single Window platform,” he said.
